::: nBlog ::: My ice hockey career abruptly terminated to a crushed heel when I was 12, after which my interest towards the sport has been on the Planck scale, even somewhat rejecting. However, I have to admit I felt proud of Leijonat winning the world championship last week. Unlike my wife, I had decided not to […]
::: nBlog ::: On Friday Nokia announced that they’ll introduce a third operating system – Windows Phone 7 – to some of their high end devices. Compared to serious competition which has either Google Android or Apple iOS, I find this move puzzling. How does one keep up with the evolution of new features when supporting three […]
::: nBlog ::: I recently attended a NASA lecture about planets outside our solar system. During the last few years, hundreds of them have been detected, some resembling Jupiter or Venus, some being surprisingly similar to our earth. As these extremely distant objects reflect little or no light, their detection is mostly indirect. Currently, there are four […]
::: nBlog ::: This week I’ve been commuting with a Think electric car. It promises a range of 160 kilometers, but given studded winter tyres and cold weather it seems that 100 kilometers is a safer bet. The Li-Ion battery is surprisingly reactive to outside temperature, and regenerative brakes seem to loose their charging power almost […]
::: nBlog ::: The Stuxnet worm has gained a lot of attention in critical infrastructure circles, especially after it emerged that it is able to silently reprogram Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs) that are ubiquitous in industrial applications. Industrial networks are usually separate islands not connected to the global Internet or even using proprietary protocols other than […]
::: nBlog ::: After reading the latest editions of Scientific American and Suomen Sotilas I was again enraged to see how some prominent writers are attacking the technological development of Smart Grids and general communications with all kinds of security arguments. At the same time there is no criticism towards the insecurity and obscurity of the existing […]
::: nBlog ::: IBM recently announced that together with Hildebrand they’ve been able to gather 50.000 energy measurements per second using IBM’s top database products in a single computer. I am delighted to see this trend, as more and more organizations are seeing the value in gathering energy data in a holistic way. The energy grid is, however, inherently distributed and requires […]
::: nBlog ::: Today I had the privilege to visit Southern Company, hosting a planning meeting for GridComForum East. It is apparent that Southern is technologically gearing up to be on par with PG+E of California – let’s see how we can help. Having (again here) seen many companies providing services to utilities in order to better serve […]
Fred Baker had a crisp message to a combined Energy and ICT audience: Make new mistakes in the Smart Grid, not the ones already witnessed in the IPv4/IPv6 Internet. Representatives from ETSI (standardization organization in the field of information and communications) and ITU-T (Telecommunication Standardization Sector) were quick to point out that in many cases, […]
I’m here at NIST in an IEEE SmartGridComm conference, together with my CTO. The quality of these presentations and ideas is breathtakingly high – including the presentation of US Chief Technology Officer Aneesh Chopra. I so much miss this kind of vigorous governmental engagement in European countries. After conferring with a few colleagues from industry and […]