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Rabuck's Real Time Watch
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Tracking, discovering and discussing ideas and projects from the Bentley Real Time Asset Lab
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Help I Need Somebody...
...not just anybody....
I love that old Beatles song, and it leads into my real life plea for assistance here. Of course, not just "anybody" will do. I need help from architects, engineers and individuals who have an interest in...
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Blue States? No Coincident Smartgrid tracker
Blue States have no political allliance in this map.
Previous I posted a link to a Google PowerMap of activity worldwide related to the SmartGrid implementations. This is another version of the idea, but it also contains more data related to the...
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LEEDv3 fills the Performance Gap
"Today there is all too often a disconnect, or performance gap, between the energy modeling done during the design phase and what actually happens during daily operation after the building is constructed."
Scot Horst, Senior Vice...
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Microsoft Goes Hohm
In this corner Microsoft Hohm, and in the opposing corner Google Powermeter.
Well Microsoft finally entered the consumer energy monitoring space. A few months ago, I discussed...
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What is a SmartGrid?
What is a SmartGrid? And why should I care?
It seems like everyone has their own definition of the term "Smartgrid" - and some don't like the word at all. At...
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Welcome to Digiville
I got an alert to an interesting contest focused on using modern sensing technology (ZigBee) and building small models to demonstrate key ideas for Green Design.
Want to see how a firehouse might conserve energy? Or track a railroad system? Or show...
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Green Week - Learn all about it
This is Green Week. Are you bored and think there isn't anything new to learn here. Flipping thru the TV Channels and nothing on TV. How about some interesting webcasts on your computer?
I just discovered an interesting web site that will have a...
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GPS for the Mind
Relax, this isn't a commercial post on anything related to Bentley Geospatial products.
This is about an interesting company that I discovered - Mind Time. They presented at the FIATECH conference last week.
First ask yourself the question -...
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Golden-i - the next mobile, wireless wonder
I see a lot of mobile and wireless devices from various sources, but this device will revolutionize the on-site computing paradigm in the construction market (and other markets as well).
Computing power in a work environment is...
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Microsoft's Investment for Survival
Yes, even Microsoft has been hit with the downturn in the economy. Microsoft, like so many other companies, was forced to do an across the board layoff. But one area that was spared the knife - research. At TechFest 2009 -...
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RFID in Construction
At the end of last year, I had the pleasure of speaking with Laura Canning from Constructech Magazine. We discussed the work we just started on the RFID cookbook with FIATECH, NDSU and other team members. An interesting article on some of the...
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Google Maps of Power
My last post on Google and Energy generated some interest and a few comments. So I started looking up the areas I knew that were doing work with Smart Metering - mostly in Texas. I stumbled across this very interesting map that shows worldwide...
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Google Gets the Power
Google is best known for its search engine strategy, and how they reinvented the search market.
Now Google has entered the energy space. And they might just reinvent the energy ecosystem. Google wants to be in your home, watching the energy...
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Super Bowl in 3D
Get your 3D glasses ready for the Super Bowl.
Checkout the details at this site. The 2009 Super Bowl commerical lineup will include a 3D ad sponsored by Pepsi.
The technology uses a new technique from Intel called InTru...
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Video Analytics and Security
There is an interesting post on the use of video analytics with IP based cameras in this blog Physical Security Technology in the Bentley community.
What the author might not know is that we have integrated video cameras...and...
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