Energy

RF-Powered, Battery-Free Wireless Sensor

July 20, 2010 Data Acquisition

Powercast Demonstrated RF-Powered, Battery-Free Wireless Sensor Module at Sensors Expo 2010 in June! Featured in a July 16th Story in the New York Times: Bye-Bye Batteries: Radio Waves as a Low Power Source Wireless Sensor Module, jointly developed by Powercast and Microchip Technology, showcases RF energy harvesting and low power processing and communications. Pittsburgh PA, [...]

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Joint International Symposium on Temperature, Humidity, Moisture and Thermal Measurements in Industry and Science

May 20, 2010 Applications

TEMPMEKO & ISHM 2010 – 31 May-4 June 2010 – Portorož, Slovenia The first Joint International Symposium on Temperature, Humidity, Moisture and Thermal Measurements in Industry and Science will be held in Portorož, Slovenia, located on the Slovenian coast on the Adriatic sea. It will be THE major event for temperature, thermal, humidity …

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IR Eyes on Iceland Volcano

April 19, 2010 Data Acquisition
Visible & Infrared Images of the Iceland Volcano Cauldera

From NASA’s EO-1 spacecraft Infrared (right) and Visible (left) images of Iceland’s Eyjafjallajokull volcano, acquired April 17, 2010, from the Hyperion instrument onboard NASA’s Earth Observing-1 (EO-1) spacecraft. [Image credit: NASA/JPL/EO-1 Mission/GSFC/Ashley Davies -- Full image and caption: (photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA13048)] On Saturday, April 17, 2010, the Hyperion instrument onboard NASA’s Earth Observing-1 (EO-1) spacecraft obtained this [...]

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Electrical Enclosure Temp Sensor

March 26, 2010 Applications
Arc Flash in Electrical Enclosure

Delta T Engineering’s Electrical Enclosure Temperature Sensor Featured in EC&M’s Product of the Year Showcase METUCHEN NJ, USA — /PRNewswire/ — Delta T Alert from Delta T Engineering has been named one of EC&M (Electrical Construction & Maintenance) magazine’s top products of the year. The competition, officially titled “EC&M Product of the Year Tabloid Showcase” [...]

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GTI’s New CHP & Renewable Energy Lab

March 10, 2010 Energy

Increases Solar Thermal R&D Opportunities Des Plaines  IL, USA –  The Gas Technology Institute (GTI) recently announced the opening of its Combined Heat and Power (CHP) & Renewable Energy Laboratory to provide greater capabilities for developing a wide variety of highly efficient, environmentally friendly, renewable energy technologies such as solar thermal products. “The advancement of [...]

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IBM to Support Arch Rock’s PhyNet Wireless Sensor Network in Active Energy Manager

February 13, 2010 Applications

Energy Management Tools For Data Centers on AEM Console SAN FRANCISCO CA, USA –(BUSINESS WIRE) — Arch Rock Corporation has announced that Arch Rock’s PhyNet™ IP-based wireless sensor network technology will be supported in IBM’s Systems Director Active Energy Manager (AEM), to monitor and manage energy usage in corporate data centers. The integrated products, now [...]

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New IR Applications Webinars

January 16, 2010 Applications

From ITC – the Infrared Training Center No. Billerica MA, USA — The Infrared Training Center has launched a new series of webinars. Their goal is help you learn  how to properly use an infrared camera for: Indoor Electrical, Outdoor Electrical, and Energy Auditing applications These introductory webinars are designed to provide a straight forward [...]

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Capabilities for Detecting Utility Energy Theft

December 29, 2009 Applications

RecoverIR™ Announces Breakthrough Gaithersburg MD, USA – RecoverIR, Inc. (RIR) announces the launch of RecoverIR™ Services. These services include Aerial Thermal Mapping, GIS, IT Support, & Analysis, for Identification and Recovery of Lost Energy & Billings from Utility Energy Theft. The company was conceptualized after an extraordinarily successful energy theft project for DTE Energy. RecoverIR™ [...]

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US Renewable Energy Project Equipped with LIOS Condition Monitoring

November 14, 2009 Applications
windfarm

Monitoring temperature of medium voltage power cables from wind turbines Morganville NJ, USA — For one of the biggest American renewable energy companies LIOS provided its well recognized Distributed Temperature Sensor (DTS) system for monitoring the temperature of two medium voltage power cables directly buried coming from a wind turbine towards the substation. All asset [...]

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New Method to Quantify Climate Modeling Uncertainty

November 9, 2009 Climate
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Global-avg temps from mid to end of 21st century may be higher than previously believed Click for larger image: www.pnas.org/content/106/37/15555/F1.expansion.html Fig. 1. Global average projections of temperatures and uncertainty. The top panel shows globally-average temperature (°C) …

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Dynamic wind farm load patterns

October 18, 2009 Applications
windfarm

Recorded by long range Distributed Temperature monitoring Systems (DTS) Cologne, Germany – The largest Danish utility owner has successfully completed the installation of LIOS’ Single Mode DTS equipment to monitor the power cable temperature of an offshore UK wind farm. This wind farm consists of 25 wind turbines and running in total 150.000 hours/year, designed [...]

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What About Wet-bulb?

May 15, 2009 Energy
Use online humidity calculator

Wet-bulb temperature is a common term often heard around the HVAC industry, but sometimes misunderstood. Wet-bulb temperature is defined as the lowest temperature able to be achieved solely by the effect of evaporation. Online — As water evaporates, it consumes energy from the surrounding air causing the air temperature to drop. The lowest …

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Update on Energy Efficiency & Conservation Block Grant Program Allocations

April 12, 2009 Applications

Washington DC, USA — After a review of eligibility criteria for the Department of Energy’s Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant Program, $16,429,000 in additional funding will go to 23 counties in Delaware, Kansas, and Louisiana to support energy efficiency projects. Delaware counties will receive $4,846,400; Kansas counties will receive $2,583,600; Louisiana counties will …

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