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[ESRI News Feed] Press Release -- Utilities Asked, "Is Your GIS Smart Grid Ready?": "We want to help utilities assess their own systems and, at the same time, gain insight into what services and products we should provide to meet the industry's changing needs," said Bill Meehan, ESRI's director of utility solutions and author of the study's base survey. "GIS is widely recognized for its strong role in managing traditional electric transmission and distribution, as well as telecommunications networks.

[Open Smart Energy] Open Smart Energy: 8 Priorities & 31 Standards: Monitoring and display of power-system components and performance across interconnections and wide geographic areas in near real-time. Goals of situational awareness are to enable understanding and, ultimately, optimize management of power-network components, behavior, and performance, as well as to anticipate, prevent, or respond to problems before disruptions can arise.

[Geo: International UK News Articles] Utilities Asked, \"Is Your GIS Smart Grid Ready?\": Redlands, California””September 1, 2009””The US electric system, \"the supreme engineering achievement of the 20th century,\" is aging, inefficient, congested, and...

[Directions Magazine GIS & Spatial Jobs Board] Software Engineer - Job Listings - Career Center - Directions Magazine: A Software Engineer will be responsible for defining, developing, and evolving software products that deliver the next era of software products for GE Energy. These products include the design and development of technologies such as those that support GE’s Smart Grid initiative, which will redefine how the world generates, consumes, and understands its consumption of power.

[GISDevelopment News] GIS News:ESRI conducting study on GIS tech: Redlands, California: The U.S. electric system, "the supreme engineering achievement of the 20th century," is aging, inefficient, congested, and incapable of meeting future energy needs, according to a recent U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) report. As electric utilities work to overcome challenges laid out in the DOE report, they can find guidance in a new benchmark study that focuses on a smart grid and geographic information system (GIS) technology.

[CADwire.net - GIS industry news] Utilities Asked, "Is Your GIS Smart Grid Ready?" (ESRI): Utilities Asked, "Is Your GIS Smart Grid Ready?" From: ESRI Type: Press Release.

[GISCafe.com CorpNews] Utilities Asked, 'Is Your GIS Smart Grid Ready?': ESRI Conducting Benchmark Study to Help Evaluate Preparedness REDLANDS, Calif., Sept. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- The US electric system, "the su.

[Risk Based Asset Lifecycle Management] Conducting a GIS Data Refresh - The Foundation of Your Smart Grid ...: shown that while most utilities have invested significant effort and cost in creating their GIS, their data quality has been in steady decline due to lack of business emphasis and ineffective supporting business processes. In addition to data deterioration, the Smart Grid may require additional data not currently modeled in the GIS.

[Spatial Sustain] The Rise of the Geospatial Engineering Firm | Spatial Sustain: The full vision of a GIS-centric system for the management of large-scale projects throughout their lifecycle is being accomplished at these firms, but there are still many barriers that need to be overcome for maximum efficiency. In such projects there are the surveyors who do base mapping, the planners, designers and engineers that typically use CAD tools, and a GIS department that tries to weave all of this data together.

[AnyGeo - A GISuser Blog about GIS and Location Technologies] Boulder Smart Grid City program - city of the future? ”” AnyGeo - A ...: : New version of MapWindow GIS Open-source.I'm pleased to announce that the next release candidate - 4.7 - of MapWindow GIS has been posted to [...]

[The Briefing Room] Tianjin Power Implements Telvent's ArcFMâ™ Geographic Information ...: Telvent’s ArcFM Geographic Information System is the object-oriented foundation that provides a single representation of an energy network - an accurate geodatabase of Tianjin Power facilities and assets in its high-, medium-, and low-voltage networks. This solution helps the utility improve management and maintenance of its facilities, reducing workload and related expenses of several of its business departments.

[GPS Tracking LandAirSea] GPS Tracking LandAirSea | GPS Tracking Reduces Toil in the Fields ...: The corn is planted in a north-south, and east-west pattern, so the walls will be thick. The farmer or designer drives around the field with a vehicle tracking device to fix the GPS coordinates, then enters an electronic version of the design to overlay it .

[Latest Spark Blog Entries] Engineering & Mathematics Notebook: From Cambridge, MA's Greenpoint Energy to Vancouver's Clean Current Power Systems, these startups are selling products and services in the Green Cars, BioFuels, Hydro, Solar, Smart Grids, Batteries, and other industries which either are just emerging or being vastly .

[SmartGridNews.com] Smart Grid: The Smart Grid's Ultimate (and Sustaining) Enabler ...: However, there are things that can be deployed now that are logical extensions of three existing pillars: (1) sensors / controllers (SCADA, AMR, AVL, etc.), (2) two-way digital TCP/IP communications, and (3) decision software (ERP, OMS, GIS) that will move the industry closer to active distribution grid management. This will make it more likely that the industry can be ready to build on the three pillars that you identify.

[Simple Thoughts - Java and Web Blog] Executive who led Google's China expansion leaving; was subject of ...: "We are working with the (Chinese) government and other key players to establish Java as the industry standard for delivering open and secure services." Java technology is being used globally in more than 2.5 billion devices, including 1 billion smart cards, more than 708 million mobile phones, more than 700 million PCs, and in data centres of the world's largest companies and organizations.

[The Oil Drum - Discussions about Energy and Our Future] The Oil Drum | Peak Oil Not a Problem According to NY Times ...: Taught ESL in Brazil, majored in Biology never really worked with that, was a commercial deep sea diver in the oil business, worked in international business import export, worked in art business, had computer graphics consulting business, owned retail toy store, sold scientific and GIS software to oil companies... became officially unemployed.

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