IEEE 2030
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Energy
IEEE Standards for the Evolving Distributed Energy Resources (DER) Ecosystem
The electric utility industry traces its roots to the launch of the world’s first centralized power plant in 1882, Thomas Edison’s Pearl Street Station, located in the financial district of New York City was one of the earliest, albeit small, centralized electricity generation and distribution systems. But while the centralized…
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Energy
How To Manage Distributed Energy Resources More Effectively
What are Distributed Energy Resources? Distributed energy resources (DER) is the term used to describe the many types of energy generation and storage technologies that provide electric capacity or energy where it is needed. With smaller outputs than traditional generating resources like centralized power plants, DER systems are often sized…
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Energy
How Can We Use ICT Standards For Sustainable Development?
What is Sustainable Development? Why is it Important? Sustainable development is a development that meets the needs of the present, without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. When considering and discussing sustainability, people often first think of the environment – saving energy, reducing carbon footprints,…
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Connectivity & Telecom
IEEE Standards Used in Your Everyday Life
Technology has become an integral aspect of our everyday lives. From the internet to the smart grid, and health care to transportation, technology standards are used in a variety of ways. IEEE standards enable many of these technologies, as well as those that have helped people cope with the COVID-19…
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Connectivity & Telecom
What are Standards? Why are They Important?
Your smartphone’s alarm just went off. A new day begins. In the shower, you rock out with your Bluetooth speaker playing. Then you check and log your blood pressure and other vital signs on your personal health device. During breakfast, you browse the Internet using Wi-Fi. Before heading out, your…
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Event Previews & Recaps
IEEE SA Leads a Dynamic Program of Activity in Eastern Africa
The IEEE Standards Association (IEEE SA) held several events in Eastern Africa as follow-on on past meetings and engagements, and to continue to build awareness and connections with the local technology communities the first week of October, aligning with IEEE Day and World Standards Day activities. There was an IEEE…
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3D
World Standards Day 2018 – Standards and the Fourth Industrial Revolution
Ten years ago, no one held a miniature portable computer in their hands. But today, much of the world uses mobile phones as their primary means of access to the internet, online business, online shopping, and social media. Twenty years ago, everyone was beginning to worry about Y2K and the…
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Event Previews & Recaps
IEEE Standards Fulfill the 2017 World Standards Day Theme: “Standards Make Cities Smarter”
Making things “smart” seems to be happening everywhere today. More and more people are using smart tools in their homes, cars and other aspects of their everyday lives. New applications continue to incorporate more and more smart elements, while smart technologies are integrated into new and updated infrastructure as well.…
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Sustainable Development
Advancing Technology For the Benefit of Humanity – A Closer Look at LVDC
The availability of electric power and its ability to drive economic productivity is a long-established characteristic of developed nations. Access to electricity, however, is far from universal. According to the International Energy Agency’s World Outlook 2016, 1.186 billion people around the world lack electricity and its benefits. About one-sixth of…
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Energy
Low-voltage DC Systems Light Up Remote Villages, Spark Worldwide Trend
Q&A with Professor Ashok Jhunjhunwala, IEEE Fellow and an electrical engineering professor at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India Would you describe your current project implementing low-voltage DC (LVDC) microgrids in India? My team in the Department of Electrical Engineering at IIT Madras, in Chennai, India, is working…