1) The document discusses India's growing power sector and the need for a smarter grid to address issues like rising demand, transmission losses, and renewable energy integration.
2) Key drivers for a smarter grid include reducing transmission and distribution losses, managing the intermittent supply from renewable sources, and enabling demand response.
3) The smarter grid will require new technologies, business models, and regulatory frameworks to transform the grid from centralized generation to an integrated system with two-way power flows.
New Developments & Future Trends in Microfinance for Rural BanksJohn Owens
This presentation was given on November 11, 2011 during the 54th Annual Rural Bankers Association of the Philippines Charter Symposium at the Manila Hotel. It covers the progress of the RBAP-MABS program as well as new developments and trends in microfinance that rural bankers should consider as they move forward.
New Developments & Future Trends in Microfinance for Rural BanksJohn Owens
This presentation was given on November 11, 2011 during the 54th Annual Rural Bankers Association of the Philippines Charter Symposium at the Manila Hotel. It covers the progress of the RBAP-MABS program as well as new developments and trends in microfinance that rural bankers should consider as they move forward.
Webinar - Measuring the "Smartness" of the Electricity GridLeonardo ENERGY
Policy makers are showing increased interest in making electricity grids ‘smarter.’ This webinar will help policy makers design policies to encourage ‘smart grids’ by defining what makes an electricity grid smart and proposing a methodology to measure the smartness of the electricity grid. Participants will also learn how to track the status of smart grid development with a defined framework of six characteristics which a smart grid should meet. Progress in the development of each characteristic is assessed by several key performance indicators.
Panelist : Leen Vandezande obtained her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the K.U.Leuven, Belgium, with her Ph.D. manuscript on balancing market design and integration. Currently, she is working as a post-doctoral researcher in the Electric Energy Research Group ELECTA at the K.U.Leuven. Being involved in several European projects in the field of smart grids and in smart grid industry associations, Vandezande is acquainted with research, policy and market activities in the area of smart grids. Her research interests include European energy policy and energy market design.
The industry of electrical energy continuously converges towards a competitive framework replacing gradually the traditional monopolistic landscape. The liberalization of the electricity market brought the separation of operations among production, transmission and distribution of electrical energy. Energy demand load forecasting become an effective tool for operational planning and security assessment of a power system.
Understanding what it takes to achieve the goal of interoperable products is the starting point for utility engineers and program managers. This webinar is an introduction to the importance of testing and certification to minimize the cost and time needed to deploy power grid solutions.
Webinar Agenda:
Case study of Sacramento Municipal Utility District’s (SMUD) early experience with Home Area Network (HAN) device deployments, the extraordinary steps taken to achieve required product interoperability, and lessons learned.
Discussion of what it takes to achieve true interoperability, what resources are currently available, and how the SGTCC is contributing to these efforts.
Attendees will gain specific insight into the challenges of achieving interoperability and what standards and tools are available to help them be a more sophisticated buyers and or users of products that meet the interoperability criteria.
Creating a platform of trust - Meter data transmission the secure wayLandis+Gyr
As the legislative and regulatory drivers around smart meter data privacy continue to take shape, the transmission of energy consumption data is coming under increased scrutiny. Landis+Gyr have invested significant effort to enhance their Gridstream® smart grid solution to include secure communications. This will help its customers comply with the requirements of the European Union directive on privacy and its recommendations for the rollout of smart metering systems.
Pp ts triple-layer smart grid business model- a comparison between sub-sahara...Zheng Ma
Viewing the smart grid with the theory of business models may open opportunities in understanding and capturing values in new markets. This study tries to discover and map the smart grid ecosystem-based business model framework with two different environments (sub-Saharan Africa and Denmark), and identifies the parameters for the smart grid solutions to the emerging markets. This study develops a triple-layer business model including the organizational (Niche), environmental (Intermediate), and global (Dominators) factors. The result uncovers an interface of market factors and stakeholders in a generic smart grid constellation. The findings contribute the transferability potential of the smart grid solutions between countries, and indicate the potential to export and import smart grid solutions based on the business modeling.
Closing the gap between smart metering and distribution automation with trans...Landis+Gyr
- Real-time metering to improve transparency to medium and low voltage networks
- Utilizing metered quality data for network maintenance and investment planning
- Value of reference metering: identify and minimize technical and non-technical losses
The Smart Customer Management Model is the maturity-based management framework to build successful and profitable customer-centered companies.
Lear more on http://www.smartcustomermanagement.com
Optimizing utilization and operating efficiency in electricity delivery system is one of smart grid’s characteristics. Transmission and distribution infrastructure includes transmission lines, substations, and distribution feeders. One estimate has put the potential in reducing distribution losses through smart grid deployment at 30%. In this report Zpryme looks at the distribution system portion of the smart grid and the portfolio of technologies that are being deployed to optimize the distribution infrastructure.
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Webinar - Measuring the "Smartness" of the Electricity GridLeonardo ENERGY
Policy makers are showing increased interest in making electricity grids ‘smarter.’ This webinar will help policy makers design policies to encourage ‘smart grids’ by defining what makes an electricity grid smart and proposing a methodology to measure the smartness of the electricity grid. Participants will also learn how to track the status of smart grid development with a defined framework of six characteristics which a smart grid should meet. Progress in the development of each characteristic is assessed by several key performance indicators.
Panelist : Leen Vandezande obtained her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the K.U.Leuven, Belgium, with her Ph.D. manuscript on balancing market design and integration. Currently, she is working as a post-doctoral researcher in the Electric Energy Research Group ELECTA at the K.U.Leuven. Being involved in several European projects in the field of smart grids and in smart grid industry associations, Vandezande is acquainted with research, policy and market activities in the area of smart grids. Her research interests include European energy policy and energy market design.
The industry of electrical energy continuously converges towards a competitive framework replacing gradually the traditional monopolistic landscape. The liberalization of the electricity market brought the separation of operations among production, transmission and distribution of electrical energy. Energy demand load forecasting become an effective tool for operational planning and security assessment of a power system.
Understanding what it takes to achieve the goal of interoperable products is the starting point for utility engineers and program managers. This webinar is an introduction to the importance of testing and certification to minimize the cost and time needed to deploy power grid solutions.
Webinar Agenda:
Case study of Sacramento Municipal Utility District’s (SMUD) early experience with Home Area Network (HAN) device deployments, the extraordinary steps taken to achieve required product interoperability, and lessons learned.
Discussion of what it takes to achieve true interoperability, what resources are currently available, and how the SGTCC is contributing to these efforts.
Attendees will gain specific insight into the challenges of achieving interoperability and what standards and tools are available to help them be a more sophisticated buyers and or users of products that meet the interoperability criteria.
Creating a platform of trust - Meter data transmission the secure wayLandis+Gyr
As the legislative and regulatory drivers around smart meter data privacy continue to take shape, the transmission of energy consumption data is coming under increased scrutiny. Landis+Gyr have invested significant effort to enhance their Gridstream® smart grid solution to include secure communications. This will help its customers comply with the requirements of the European Union directive on privacy and its recommendations for the rollout of smart metering systems.
Pp ts triple-layer smart grid business model- a comparison between sub-sahara...Zheng Ma
Viewing the smart grid with the theory of business models may open opportunities in understanding and capturing values in new markets. This study tries to discover and map the smart grid ecosystem-based business model framework with two different environments (sub-Saharan Africa and Denmark), and identifies the parameters for the smart grid solutions to the emerging markets. This study develops a triple-layer business model including the organizational (Niche), environmental (Intermediate), and global (Dominators) factors. The result uncovers an interface of market factors and stakeholders in a generic smart grid constellation. The findings contribute the transferability potential of the smart grid solutions between countries, and indicate the potential to export and import smart grid solutions based on the business modeling.
Closing the gap between smart metering and distribution automation with trans...Landis+Gyr
- Real-time metering to improve transparency to medium and low voltage networks
- Utilizing metered quality data for network maintenance and investment planning
- Value of reference metering: identify and minimize technical and non-technical losses
The Smart Customer Management Model is the maturity-based management framework to build successful and profitable customer-centered companies.
Lear more on http://www.smartcustomermanagement.com
Optimizing utilization and operating efficiency in electricity delivery system is one of smart grid’s characteristics. Transmission and distribution infrastructure includes transmission lines, substations, and distribution feeders. One estimate has put the potential in reducing distribution losses through smart grid deployment at 30%. In this report Zpryme looks at the distribution system portion of the smart grid and the portfolio of technologies that are being deployed to optimize the distribution infrastructure.
Download
SPICE MODEL of C4D20120D LTspice Model (Professional Model) in SPICE PARKTsuyoshi Horigome
SPICE MODEL of C4D20120D LTspice Model (Professional Model) in SPICE PARK. English Version is http://www.spicepark.net. Japanese Version is http://www.spicepark.com by Bee Technologies.
SPICE MODEL of C4D30120D LTspice Model (Professional Model) in SPICE PARKTsuyoshi Horigome
SPICE MODEL of C4D30120D LTspice Model (Professional Model) in SPICE PARK. English Version is http://www.spicepark.net. Japanese Version is http://www.spicepark.com by Bee Technologies.
SPICE MODEL of C4D15120A LTspice Model (Professional Model) in SPICE PARKTsuyoshi Horigome
SPICE MODEL of C4D15120A LTspice Model (Professional Model) in SPICE PARK. English Version is http://www.spicepark.net. Japanese Version is http://www.spicepark.com by Bee Technologies.
SPICE MODEL of 2SJ493 (Professional+BDP Model) in SPICE PARKTsuyoshi Horigome
SPICE MODEL of 2SJ493 (Professional+BDP Model) in SPICE PARK. English Version is http://www.spicepark.net. Japanese Version is http://www.spicepark.com by Bee Technologies.
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.
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
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
Join us to learn more about this new, human-in-the-loop capability, brought to you by Integration Service connectors.
And...
Speakers:
Akshay Agnihotri, Product Manager
Charlie Greenberg, Host
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
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
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
"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.
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024Tobias Schneck
As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
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.
17. Conclusions
Smart Grid is the evaluation of today's systems and the enabler for a
more sustainable energy system with a more consumer driven
electricity market which includes:
integration of renewable energy sources, efficient energy
consumption, AMI etc.
Both transmission and distribution
both automation/IT and power devices
both technology, business models and regulatory/market
frameworks
Smart Grid is still a learning process. An important arena to develop and
demonstrate solutions for the future power system together with all stake
holders including authorities and end users
Most of the components and systems needed exists today but new
standards must be developed
Everyone has to reconsider the individual energy consumption behavior