Conclusion of a survey of 135 utilities, regulators, distributed energy resource companies, energy consumers, advocates, and academic experts anticipated innovations (reprinted article)
The new mobility ecosystem is rapidly expanding, with new technologies, infrastructure, providers, and modes of transport. How to integrate them all and keep everything on track? With a mobility operating system. https://www2.deloitte.com/us/en/insights/focus/future-of-mobility/urban-transport-mobility-platforms.html
Future of energy nordic edge - 27 sept 2018Future Agenda
This is the starting stimulus for a future of energy workshop taking place on 27 Sept in Stavanger, Norway. As part of the Nordic Edge 2018 event, and in partnership with ISPIM, we are running an accelerated session focused on key shifts for energy in smart cities over the next decade or so.
More details are on https://www.nordicedgeexpo.org/program/ispim-immersive-workshop
This draws on previous future agenda focus on the future of energy, the future of cities and the future of transport and is the starting point for a new more focused exploration of the specific changes and opportunities for low carbon, renewable EV driven urban energy strategies. More details on www.futureagenda.org
The new mobility ecosystem is rapidly expanding, with new technologies, infrastructure, providers, and modes of transport. How to integrate them all and keep everything on track? With a mobility operating system. https://www2.deloitte.com/us/en/insights/focus/future-of-mobility/urban-transport-mobility-platforms.html
Future of energy nordic edge - 27 sept 2018Future Agenda
This is the starting stimulus for a future of energy workshop taking place on 27 Sept in Stavanger, Norway. As part of the Nordic Edge 2018 event, and in partnership with ISPIM, we are running an accelerated session focused on key shifts for energy in smart cities over the next decade or so.
More details are on https://www.nordicedgeexpo.org/program/ispim-immersive-workshop
This draws on previous future agenda focus on the future of energy, the future of cities and the future of transport and is the starting point for a new more focused exploration of the specific changes and opportunities for low carbon, renewable EV driven urban energy strategies. More details on www.futureagenda.org
Smart cities: Understanding policies, standards, applications and case studies IJECEIAES
This paper presents the integration of required basic facilities of living such as healthcare, education, and infrastructure for building the smart cities. The administrations of smart cities should have the smart governance, safety measures with cultural and social stimulus. Four building blocks of smart cities, i.e., people and environment, smart utilities, smart technology and smart administration are described in the present paper. The aim of this paper is to give a clearer perspective of the key decisions with spatial reference that may assume a key part in the plan of a smart city technique. Application of various technologies, for examples big data, artificial intelligence, machine learning, internet of things (IoT), cloud computing, block chain technology to the smart cities are discussed in this paper. Various challenges of smart cities such as information technology (IT) infrastructure, cost, privacy, security, efficiency, fossil fuel dependency and congested commutes with proposed solutions are also presented in this paper.
On 18th June, we brought together senior business leaders, decision makers, policy creators and energy experts to discuss the issues crucial to achieving the business benefits of a more flexible energy system.
Together at the event we collaboratively explored the opportunities for business, the incentives and barriers to growth, and sought solutions to deliver demand side response at scale by 2020.
This document gives a summary of the roundtable discussions that took place at the launch event.
Cartesian considers the future of mobile wholesale charging: What alternatives exist to traditional usage-based models? Could capacity-based charging improve return on network investment?
Power Responsive DSR Conference 18th June - Summary PaperPower Responsive
On 18th June, we brought together senior business leaders, decision makers, policy creators and energy experts to discuss the issues crucial to achieving the business benefits of a more flexible energy system.
Together at the event we collaboratively explored the opportunities for business, the incentives and barriers to growth, and sought solutions to deliver demand side response at scale by 2020.
This document is a summary paper of the event
Patricia Taylor, Sr. Manager of Regulatory Policy and Business Programs at the American Public Power Institute, Thor Hinckley, Sr. Program Manager at Forth and Connor Herman, Program Manager at Forth gave this presentation at the Utility Working Group webinar on March 17, 2020.
The zone of interaction between the smart grid and the consumer has been characterized as 'the great unknown.' Yet ready or not'with the smart grid rapidly taking shape, a rush of companies swarming the market, state mandates kicking into effect, and actual deployments being built out'the smart grid is now poised to plunge headlong into this largely unexplored land of consumer demand. Yet so far, despite optimistic reconnaissance gathered from pilot projects and other preliminary tests, real-world expeditions into the new consumer frontier have met with a host of problems'from cost overruns to consumer resistance. So perhaps at this point it would be prudent to step back and reassess this terra incognita. The smart grid is currently conservatively valued at just over $20 billion in the United States and over $70 billion globally. Yet only about 10% of this amount is accounted for by consumer applications'mostly smart meters. The smart grid will only truly achieve its goals if it establishes positive two-way communications between utilities and consumers. This means that residential applications and services must necessarily gain significantly in share before the smart grid can realize its visionary promise. This study presents a wealth of insights into smart grid/consumer dynamics. It examines the issues involved in building positive two-way communications interactions, and the intrinsic negative resistance that can be expected. With a focus on residential applications and services, it provides an in-depth analysis of advanced metering infrastructure, smart meters, demand response, dynamic pricing, home energy management systems, home area networks, smart appliances, popular communications platforms, and futuristic technologies. The competitive situation is also discussed, showing how giants like Cisco, Duke Energy, and Google are entering a fledgling field so far dominated by relatively recent startups, such as Enernoc, Control4, and a flock of other companies. Other areas covered in this study include product and marketing trends, recent smart grid deployments, and consumer surveys regarding smart grid acceptance.
PNNL-Caltech conceptual paper on network effects and convergence for electric grids. Paper presents introductory information and organizing frameworks on the development of electric networks and the opportunity to achieve synergies from multi-network convergence.
DSR: Being Power Responsive, 18th June - Full SlidepackPower Responsive
On 18th June, we brought together senior business leaders, decision makers, policy creators and energy experts to discuss the issues crucial to achieving the business benefits of a more flexible energy system.
Together at the event we collaboratively explored the opportunities for business, the incentives and barriers to growth, and sought solutions to deliver demand side response at scale by 2020.
This slidepack includes all of the presentation material from the conference.
Broadband infrastructures leverage a multiplicity of technology solutions in terms both of transport and of access. Technology choices definitely influence the strategic direction of broadband government programs, but this book focuses on strategic and organizational issues and does not discuss technology solutions, architectures and trends.
Ministry of the Economic Development, Labor, Science and Education in the Ir...Haim R. Branisteanu
Response letter related to Russian Prime Minister Medvedev, from, Deputy Minister of Ministry of the Economic Development, Labor, Science and Higher Education in the Irkutsk Region, Mr. Putsik related to processing bark and woody waste in coal and fertilizer substitute
Smart cities: Understanding policies, standards, applications and case studies IJECEIAES
This paper presents the integration of required basic facilities of living such as healthcare, education, and infrastructure for building the smart cities. The administrations of smart cities should have the smart governance, safety measures with cultural and social stimulus. Four building blocks of smart cities, i.e., people and environment, smart utilities, smart technology and smart administration are described in the present paper. The aim of this paper is to give a clearer perspective of the key decisions with spatial reference that may assume a key part in the plan of a smart city technique. Application of various technologies, for examples big data, artificial intelligence, machine learning, internet of things (IoT), cloud computing, block chain technology to the smart cities are discussed in this paper. Various challenges of smart cities such as information technology (IT) infrastructure, cost, privacy, security, efficiency, fossil fuel dependency and congested commutes with proposed solutions are also presented in this paper.
On 18th June, we brought together senior business leaders, decision makers, policy creators and energy experts to discuss the issues crucial to achieving the business benefits of a more flexible energy system.
Together at the event we collaboratively explored the opportunities for business, the incentives and barriers to growth, and sought solutions to deliver demand side response at scale by 2020.
This document gives a summary of the roundtable discussions that took place at the launch event.
Cartesian considers the future of mobile wholesale charging: What alternatives exist to traditional usage-based models? Could capacity-based charging improve return on network investment?
Power Responsive DSR Conference 18th June - Summary PaperPower Responsive
On 18th June, we brought together senior business leaders, decision makers, policy creators and energy experts to discuss the issues crucial to achieving the business benefits of a more flexible energy system.
Together at the event we collaboratively explored the opportunities for business, the incentives and barriers to growth, and sought solutions to deliver demand side response at scale by 2020.
This document is a summary paper of the event
Patricia Taylor, Sr. Manager of Regulatory Policy and Business Programs at the American Public Power Institute, Thor Hinckley, Sr. Program Manager at Forth and Connor Herman, Program Manager at Forth gave this presentation at the Utility Working Group webinar on March 17, 2020.
The zone of interaction between the smart grid and the consumer has been characterized as 'the great unknown.' Yet ready or not'with the smart grid rapidly taking shape, a rush of companies swarming the market, state mandates kicking into effect, and actual deployments being built out'the smart grid is now poised to plunge headlong into this largely unexplored land of consumer demand. Yet so far, despite optimistic reconnaissance gathered from pilot projects and other preliminary tests, real-world expeditions into the new consumer frontier have met with a host of problems'from cost overruns to consumer resistance. So perhaps at this point it would be prudent to step back and reassess this terra incognita. The smart grid is currently conservatively valued at just over $20 billion in the United States and over $70 billion globally. Yet only about 10% of this amount is accounted for by consumer applications'mostly smart meters. The smart grid will only truly achieve its goals if it establishes positive two-way communications between utilities and consumers. This means that residential applications and services must necessarily gain significantly in share before the smart grid can realize its visionary promise. This study presents a wealth of insights into smart grid/consumer dynamics. It examines the issues involved in building positive two-way communications interactions, and the intrinsic negative resistance that can be expected. With a focus on residential applications and services, it provides an in-depth analysis of advanced metering infrastructure, smart meters, demand response, dynamic pricing, home energy management systems, home area networks, smart appliances, popular communications platforms, and futuristic technologies. The competitive situation is also discussed, showing how giants like Cisco, Duke Energy, and Google are entering a fledgling field so far dominated by relatively recent startups, such as Enernoc, Control4, and a flock of other companies. Other areas covered in this study include product and marketing trends, recent smart grid deployments, and consumer surveys regarding smart grid acceptance.
PNNL-Caltech conceptual paper on network effects and convergence for electric grids. Paper presents introductory information and organizing frameworks on the development of electric networks and the opportunity to achieve synergies from multi-network convergence.
DSR: Being Power Responsive, 18th June - Full SlidepackPower Responsive
On 18th June, we brought together senior business leaders, decision makers, policy creators and energy experts to discuss the issues crucial to achieving the business benefits of a more flexible energy system.
Together at the event we collaboratively explored the opportunities for business, the incentives and barriers to growth, and sought solutions to deliver demand side response at scale by 2020.
This slidepack includes all of the presentation material from the conference.
Broadband infrastructures leverage a multiplicity of technology solutions in terms both of transport and of access. Technology choices definitely influence the strategic direction of broadband government programs, but this book focuses on strategic and organizational issues and does not discuss technology solutions, architectures and trends.
Ministry of the Economic Development, Labor, Science and Education in the Ir...Haim R. Branisteanu
Response letter related to Russian Prime Minister Medvedev, from, Deputy Minister of Ministry of the Economic Development, Labor, Science and Higher Education in the Irkutsk Region, Mr. Putsik related to processing bark and woody waste in coal and fertilizer substitute
This proposal was initiated after failure to establish of the "Mishor Rotem" shale oil power Station. Due to my proposed structure as a JV the US State Department had a keen interest to provide the appropriate guaranties and OPIC financing. More details upon request.
This presentation was prepared for the Board of Directors of Baran Group an engineering company, during summer of 2015. The proposal was not accepted for a variety of unrelated non-technical reasons (it is uploaded as is for the record).
This letter is in response to my proposal of a distributed solar panel farm network with battery storage instead of coal and NG power stations, within the Israeli southern region which is a desert.
Invitation to Donetsk Ukraine renewable energy commissionHaim R. Branisteanu
Invitation to Ukraine Donetsk Oblast Renewable Energy Commission to present the implementation of a program for improvement of th environment and renewable energy
Introducing Bezeq an Israeli Telecom Company to Romanian Presidential Advisor to acquire part of Rom-Telecom, later the issue was also discussed in the Romanian Parliament
My presentation at 7th International Renewable Energy Conference Eilat-Eilot Israel, November 2016 of course there are many comments and explanations to add to each slide in this presentation like $450 in savings per household See also Clarifications for
Peer to Peer Networks in “Smart Cities” Includes recent report from Australia
Revue de presse IoT / Data du 22/01/2017Romain Bochet
Bonjour,
Voici la revue de presse IoT/data/energie du 22 janvier 2017.
Au programme :
- IBM Watson wants to help streetlights become smarter
- Monetizing Utility Data: The ‘Utility Data as a Service’ Opportunity
- Carnival Ocean Medallion: 5 takeaways from one of 2017's premier IoT projects
- DC's Gramercy District to become a $500m smart city test project
- Plateformes de données urbaines : quelle place pour l'énergie ?
- Acuity says it has deployed IoT lighting in 40 million square-feet of retail space
Je suis preneur d'autres artices / sources !
Bonne lecture !
Shared Economy & Open Data in #EnergyEfficiency MarketsUmesh Bhutoria
Paper orginally written for presentation at the AEEE Conclave. It failed to make the cut for final round, we thought we would still let people review it and engage!
Paper talks about our path-breaking work on helping open up data for greater good and value creation
Modeling the Grid for De-Centralized EnergyTon De Vries
Utilities are facing massive changes that affect all aspects of their business, from planning through operations. Once an industry characterized as technology-risk averse, utilities have been shifting to more agile approaches with a higher tolerance for risk. Modeling the grid to accommodate these changes requires new approaches and closer relationships with trusted
technology partners. This paper will examine what methodologies have driven the acceleration of grid decentralization and what technologies still need to be applied for smooth integration and success.
Presentation to the annual UCLA Smart Grid research collaborative discussing the operational considerations of an increasing hybrid electric system involving millions of customers participating.
Overview of Utility Challenges and Responses to Distributed Solar EnergyScottMadden, Inc.
Utility planning is changing with the rapid growth of distributed solar in certain markets. Over the long term, market fundamentals favor the continued growth of distributed solar energy. This will access business and operational challenges for utilities. This insight outlines strategies utilities can deploy to successfully incorporate distributed solar energy into their business model or generation portfolio.
21st C.Electric Distribution System Operations, 2014Paul De Martini
L. Kristov & P. De Martini paper that defines Distribution System Operator and provides a framework to considering a range of business and policy issues.
ScottMadden has developed the following document, which provides an overview of DERs, a description of why they are causing so much upheaval in the industry, a summary of the NARUC reports, and an outline of the key questions utilities must address in relation to DERs.
What is DERMS ? Distributed Energy Resources Management System
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A letter from Chairman of the Donetsk Regional Council (signed, official seal affixed): A.M. Bliznyuk, inviting me to establish a renewable energy project just north of Mariupol
Providing potable water to Jordan, with the purpose to improve bilateral relations, and the ability to expand bidirectional transport of freight & goods from Haifa to the future Jordanian Railway Network.
The safety locks will be placed at distances as needed due to engineering requirements and the slope/pressure of the seawater
Letter to ILIM CEO asking to restart my 2010 proposed project with the company support was ignored also by the present Irkutsk Governor in contrast to 2010/2011
Proposal prepared at the request of Deputy Minster Michael Oren and send by e-mail to the PMO Office.on Nov. 20 or 21 2018. Never received a response on the subject
This letter was sent by e-mail to several related parties within the European Commission, some of which were unavailable probably on vacation. No response was received but recently March 2021, Saudi Arabia signed agreements along the lines of my suggestions. The Israeli Ministry of Energy also adopted a similar path after dismissing my proposal of cooperation with Jordan and the EU
Hydrogen by SMR’s, solar panels and fuel cells where the basis of a proposal from 2019 to the Israeli Hassidic community who wanted to strictly observe the Shabbat which based on their belief electricity produced during Shabbat by Jewish worker is not Kasher for use according to the laws or the Bible.
Improvement in electrical network stability meshed with renewable Haim R. Branisteanu
A 3-page proposal that was submitted to Dr. Tatiana Mitrova
Director of the SKOLKOVO Energy Centre at (https://energy.skolkovo.ru/en/senec/team/) by e-mail over a year ago to encourage the Russian establishment to convert the Russian economy toward hydrogen. A similar request was also sent through the official website of Russian PM in Sept. 2019
A brief description of my various achievements during my career as an entrepreneur, inventor, designer, and initiator of the various project which in retrospect where several early ahead of their time
The subjects of a presentation of new developments in the energy fieldHaim R. Branisteanu
A short presentation of new developments in the energy field, related to the business of Israel Electrical Corporation in a holistic approach
The purpose of this lecture is to bring to the attention of the participants of developments that may assist them in choosing new venues for IEC corporate business development.
Response Avi Licht 16 Dec 2015, the Office of Israel Attorney GeneralHaim R. Branisteanu
Response to my proposal to use more solar energy instead of natural gas from the Office of Israel Attorney General advising the Israeli Government. There are more similar letters in response to my various suggestions during Summer of 2015 to the Israeli Parliament Economic Committee with the encouragement of various parliamentarians.
Lithium Batteries of Tadiran and Oppenheimer & Co LBO proposalHaim R. Branisteanu
During summer/fall of 1989, I was able to convince investment bankers at Oppenheimer & Co that the future will be the laptop computer and Tadiran Batteries Div. has the technology for the military type of lithium batteries needed for SINGARS, and this technology can be converted also for commercial use to power laptop computers.
Tadiran refused to sell the division or adapt to commercial use in a business meeting with Tadiran Executive VP in New York who arrived specifically in New York, for this meeting at Oppenheimer Offices. Wonder what they would have decided if they would have the foresight.
Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered QualityInflectra
In this insightful webinar, Inflectra explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming software development and testing. Discover how AI-powered tools are revolutionizing every stage of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Learn about:
• The Future of Testing: How AI is shifting testing towards verification, analysis, and higher-level skills, while reducing repetitive tasks.
• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
• Visual Testing: Explore the emerging capabilities of AI in visual testing and how it's set to revolutionize UI verification.
• Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
Whether you're a developer, tester, or QA professional, this webinar will give you valuable insights into how AI is shaping the future of software delivery.
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
Search and Society: Reimagining Information Access for Radical FuturesBhaskar Mitra
The field of Information retrieval (IR) is currently undergoing a transformative shift, at least partly due to the emerging applications of generative AI to information access. In this talk, we will deliberate on the sociotechnical implications of generative AI for information access. We will argue that there is both a critical necessity and an exciting opportunity for the IR community to re-center our research agendas on societal needs while dismantling the artificial separation between the work on fairness, accountability, transparency, and ethics in IR and the rest of IR research. Instead of adopting a reactionary strategy of trying to mitigate potential social harms from emerging technologies, the community should aim to proactively set the research agenda for the kinds of systems we should build inspired by diverse explicitly stated sociotechnical imaginaries. The sociotechnical imaginaries that underpin the design and development of information access technologies needs to be explicitly articulated, and we need to develop theories of change in context of these diverse perspectives. Our guiding future imaginaries must be informed by other academic fields, such as democratic theory and critical theory, and should be co-developed with social science scholars, legal scholars, civil rights and social justice activists, and artists, among others.
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Slack (or Teams) Automation for Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Soluti...Jeffrey Haguewood
Sidekick Solutions uses Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Solutions Apricot) and automation solutions to integrate data for business workflows.
We believe integration and automation are essential to user experience and the promise of efficient work through technology. Automation is the critical ingredient to realizing that full vision. We develop integration products and services for Bonterra Case Management software to support the deployment of automations for a variety of use cases.
This video focuses on the notifications, alerts, and approval requests using Slack for Bonterra Impact Management. The solutions covered in this webinar can also be deployed for Microsoft Teams.
Interested in deploying notification automations for Bonterra Impact Management? Contact us at sales@sidekicksolutionsllc.com to discuss next steps.
Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*Frank van Harmelen
Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
"Impact of front-end architecture on development cost", Viktor TurskyiFwdays
I have heard many times that architecture is not important for the front-end. Also, many times I have seen how developers implement features on the front-end just following the standard rules for a framework and think that this is enough to successfully launch the project, and then the project fails. How to prevent this and what approach to choose? I have launched dozens of complex projects and during the talk we will analyze which approaches have worked for me and which have not.
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
Dev Dives: Train smarter, not harder – active learning and UiPath LLMs for do...UiPathCommunity
💥 Speed, accuracy, and scaling – discover the superpowers of GenAI in action with UiPath Document Understanding and Communications Mining™:
See how to accelerate model training and optimize model performance with active learning
Learn about the latest enhancements to out-of-the-box document processing – with little to no training required
Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
This is a hands-on session specifically designed for automation developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to enhance their knowledge in leveraging the latest intelligent document processing capabilities offered by UiPath.
Speakers:
👨🏫 Andras Palfi, Senior Product Manager, UiPath
👩🏫 Lenka Dulovicova, Product Program Manager, UiPath
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey 2024 by 91mobiles.pdf91mobiles
91mobiles recently conducted a Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey in which we asked over 3,000 respondents about the TV they own, aspects they look at on a new TV, and their TV buying preferences.
Designing Great Products: The Power of Design and Leadership by Chief Designe...
Anticipated areas of electricity innovation to watch in 2017
1. Haim R. Branisteanu
Haim R Branisteanu, 12 Gotlieb Street Tel Aviv 64-392 Tel 03-523-2744 Page 1
Anticipated Areas of Electricity Innovation to Watch in 2017
US acceptability of the concept of Distributed Energy Resources
From a survey of 135 utilities, regulators, distributed energy resource companies, energy
consumers, advocates, and academic experts about their most exciting opportunities—and
their critical challenges—in 2017. The following key issues emerged.
1. Distributed Energy Resource (DER) Valuation and Rate Design
Things are starting to get interesting in this space. Nevada just reinstated net metering;
Arizona and California are moving to time-of-use rates, New York is moving closer to a “value
of DERs” tariff. And we still have 46 states to go! As of last count, 15 states were formally
examining or resolved to examine the value of distributed generation.
Two underlying dynamics are spurring new attention on DER valuation. First is the
accelerating adoption of new DERs. Electric vehicles (EVs), batteries, grid-interactive water
heaters, and many other smart appliances are expanding the definition of “distributed energy
resource” beyond just rooftop solar. As a result, policy makers are taking a more holistic, and
generally technology-agnostic, approach to DER valuation. In the year ahead, we can expect
more attention on smart home rates and electric vehicle rates, in particular.
The second thing that is changing the conversation, almost literally, is that all parties are
dramatically increasing their understanding and recognition of the costs and benefits of DERs.
With new resources, such as the recently published manual on DER rate design and
compensation from the National Association of Regulated Utility Commissioners (NARUC), in
2017 we’re going to see forward motion on parties being able to deliberately segregate the way
they calculate the value of DERs from the way they pay for them (e.g., net metering).
2. Electric Vehicles as a Grid Asset
While electric vehicles still represent a small fraction of vehicles on the road today, research
has shown that it takes relatively few EVs on one distribution feeder to have a significant effect
on the overall performance of the grid. As a result, stakeholders are looking for tools and
programs to leverage EVs as a grid asset rather than a liability.
At the same time, with the recently released long-range Chevrolet Bolt, the soon-to-be released
Tesla Model 3, and many more automakers debuting EVs with larger batteries and longer
ranges, 2017 is going to be the year we see automakers, charging network operators, and others
get serious about expanding DC fast charging and charging networks more broadly.
While these two dynamics may seem complementary on the surface, some serious
complications still need resolution. To employ EVs as a grid asset, utilities require predictable
charging patterns. This suggests charging at lower voltages for longer periods of time—Level 2
charging. Automakers and charging network operators seek convenience for EV drivers, which
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mean charging at higher voltages whenever and wherever it’s most convenient—DC fast
charging. How to best manage the impacts of charging on the grid, while creating a system that
supports the broader adoption of electric vehicles, requires finding and creating solutions that
work for both groups.
3. Alternative Capital Planning
As DER costs have declined to the record-low prices we see in the market today, utilities and
regulators are exploring ways to use DERs to displace traditional infrastructure investments at
a lower total system cost. Often referred to as a non-wires alternative (NWA), this concept is
gaining momentum with the California Public Utility Commission’s decision directing investor-
owned utilities in California to conduct at least one and up to four pilots using DERs to
displace or defer traditional grid investments.
While innovators are moving swiftly to make portfolios of DERs plug-and-play for utilities and
grid operators, there are still many questions about how to plan for this, how to contract and
pay for these portfolios, and then how to operate and maintain them. These portfolios often
require a mix of different DER technologies in order to provide the full suite of services that
utilities and grid operators seek. We are beginning to see new alliances between DER providers
in order to make these projects happen, and we anticipate efforts to co-create tools and
solutions to address the planning, financing, and operational issues that NWAs present.
4. Utility Business Models in Vertically Integrated States
Using portfolios of DERs to replace traditional grid infrastructure presents a fundamental
challenge to the traditional cost-of-service regulation model for vertically integrated utilities—
particularly when the distributed resource alternatives are deployed by third parties and not by
utilities, creating a direct conflict for the traditional utility revenue model. In states like
Minnesota and Hawaii, regulators and other stakeholders are exploring changes to the
traditional utility business model that can resolve this conflict.
Options range from performance-based regulation—where the utility’s business model of
investing in the grid remains much the same, but the metrics by which it is assessed and
rewarded changes—to creating entirely new revenue opportunities for utilities. The alternative
revenue models that have been suggested are broad and varied, and include the utility acting as
a service provider to deliver energy efficiency upgrades and other services to customers, the
utility operating as a finance provider for alternative grid investments (e.g., DERs), and the
utility serving as a market platform for DERs, also described as the distribution system
operator.
5. Distribution System Operations and Markets
As vertically integrated utility markets are looking for cost-competitive mechanisms to invest
in economic DER technologies, deregulated markets face an equally complex challenge in
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incorporating DERs into multiparty transactions. Transforming the grid into a system, that is
cleaner, smarter, and more flexible, means capturing and creating value from resources at the
distribution edge. While it will take more than clean DERs for our system to reach the 80- or
100-percent renewable energy targets that an increasing number of cities, states, and
companies now aim for, building a system that can accommodate this level of renewable
energy means building a complementary system that can seamlessly integrate the capabilities
of DERs with utility-scale resources and wholesale markets.
Markets at the distribution-system level, often referred to as distribution system operators
(DSOs), as opposed to the independent system operators (ISOs) that operate the wholesale
markets, are increasingly being viewed as a necessary part of the grid of the future. While
consensus about the need for DSOs is growing, many outstanding questions still need to be
answered about who manages the DSO, where its boundaries should lie, and what kind of
market transactions (e.g., real-time prices or day-ahead bidding, etc.) it should use to manage
participating distributed energy devices. New York has already begun this scoping process
through the Reforming the Energy Vision (REV) proceeding, and in 2017 we’ll see other states,
ISOs, and individual utilities begin their own explorations into and possibly demonstration
projects for DSOs.
6. DER Control Schemes: Coordination or Chaos?
As we look to create distribution-level markets, we encounter many questions about the control
required between devices, system operators, and market operators. While a bevy of working
groups such as the Smart Grid Interoperability Panel and the Gridwise Alliance have been
working to bring standards and protocols to the DER controls realm, growing interest in DSOs
and momentum to use DERs as alternatives to traditional capital investments are bringing new
urgency to this topic.
Engineers and economists agree that control is necessary to manage the impact of DERs on the
grid. They also agree that a certain amount of control and coordination is necessary to manage
DERs in a market. But uncertainty exists about when and where the need for control arises for
both system operations and market operations. Do these functions require separate devices, or
can they be accomplished through the right combination of software and hardware? When
these questions are layered with questions about what should be market-driven coordination,
as opposed to an autonomous device response, or with a customer’s decision about how to use
the device and when, things really start to get interesting.
7. Customer Engagement
While it’s easy to get excited about all this discussion about DSOs and non-wires alternatives,
the stark reality is that customer participation in most traditional utility demand-side
management (DSM) programs still remains in the single digits. Adoption of rooftop solar and
EVs also remains in the single digits in most parts of the country. If we’re going to see DERs
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truly realize their potential to operate as a grid resource, that utilities, system operators, and
regulators plan for and rely on, then 2017 needs to be the year that we kick our customer
engagement into high gear.
The next generation of customer engagement can start by thinking about “customers” and not
“ratepayers,” experience as well as energy use, and value versus costs. We’re seeing new models
emerge that leverage customer segmentation and consumer marketing analytics to drive DER
adoption based on real customer needs; that increase customer trust by providing clear, easy-
to-understand quote comparisons; and that cut through bureaucratic red tape to deliver a
seamless customer experience.
8. DERs for Low- and Moderate-Income Customers
When thinking about the role customers can and will play in the grid of the future, it’s
important that we remember our low- and moderate-income customers, those who often face
the greatest risks with the fewest resources to adapt to a changing energy landscape. For years,
regulators have ensured that energy costs do not become an undue financial burden to low-
and moderate-income (LMI) customers by providing special credits, subsidies, or rates to these
customers, as well as by ensuring that utility investments are fair, justifiable, and reasonable.
In 2017, with the decrease in the costs of DERs coupled with smartphone-enabled engagement
pathways (including pay-by-phone, electronic billing, and pre-pay), utilities, regulators, and
others are revisiting whether they can serve these customers better with DERs than with
subsidies. Doing so would simultaneously reduce costs while also improving customer metrics,
including a declining energy footprint.
February 1, 2017 Article reprinted