4g And wimax for the smart grid Enabling access applications and Affordability

 4G technologies provide any power utility with the most cost effective technology in monitoring the grid from power production to power consumption. Not only will a 4G smart grid read meters, they will also provide a range of cost saving services to the utility and the community as a whole. Mind Commerce's new research 4G and WiMAX for the Smart Grid: Enabling Access, Applications and Affordability proposes WiMAX as a Last Mile or "Access" solution to provide a range of smart grid solutions or "Applications" which, when compared with other smart grid technologies such as Broadband over Power Line (BPL) come in at less than half the cost per household reached offering industry leading "Affordability" figures.

The research indicates that given the dilemma of US Department of energy awarding billions of dollars in smart grid grants while standards making bodies dither in providing the industry with standards, the power industry should look to the latest and greatest standards in telecommunications (Internet Protocol and 4G technologies such as WiMAX) to take advantage of federal dollars available for smart grid deployments while saving money on operating expenses. In addition, the deployment of a 4G network would enable the utility to offer wholesale and retail telecommunications services contributing new revenue streams for the utility while shortening the Return on Investment (ROI).

Any utility manager studying their smart grid options is no doubt concerned about the security of any smart grid network (foreign agents have been known to attempt to hack some parts of the US power grid), Quality of Service (QoS) issues, reliability of the technology and the potential for harmful interference to take down their smart grid network. This publication tackles those objections head-on in easy-to-understand language addressing both Last Mile and Middle Mile portions of a 4G smart grid network.

The paper analyses a BPL deployment in Boulder, Colorado where the power utility deployed a BPL-based smart grid at a cost of $1,000 per household reached. The research finds that a more powerful, mobile, 4G, standards-based network could have been deployed at a cost of $440 per household reached. The financial analysis offers a worksheet for power utilities to determine return on investment.

With its exhaustive analysis of 4G and smart grid, there is no other research currently available as comprehensive as 4G and WiMAX for the Smart Grid: Enabling Access, Applications and Affordability.

Key Findings:
Incremental revenue streams can be enjoyed via wholesaling telecommunications services supported by 4G smart grid applications
4G smart grid solutions provide utilities with cost savings on internal operations (mobile work force applications, etc)
Ubiquitous broadband services can be realized through the deployment of 4G in the power utilities' market providing greater efficiencies for smart grid subsidies

Target Audience:
Power utilities companies
Renewable energy companies
Telecommunications service providers
Telecommunications vendors seeking entry to the smart grid market
Government regulatory authorities
Power sector vendors

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Nokia N8 Excellent camera phone with Advantageous Deals

Nokia N-series handsets fascinate the users a lot. One of the latest handsets in this series is Nokia N8 deals, which comes with a plenty of high-end features as well as the deals with financial benefits.It will not be wrong to say this, a camera phone. It is available with an astonishing 12 MP camera which allows the users to take the pictures with digital camera quality. 

Apart, it has a number of features to enhance the quality of pictures which include, Carl Zeiss optics, autofocus, Xenon flash, 1/1.83'' sensor size, ND filter, geo-tagging & face and smile detection. Moreover, users can view the images of the person whom he or she is talking on the phone. A number of other features like Wi-Fi, GPRS, GPS, Digital Compass.

Several Nokia N8 deals are available in the mobile phone market under which users can get a number of offers along with the handset. The Nokia N8 contract deals can be signed with most of network providers of UK, such as Orange, O2, Vodafone, Virgin etc. Free talk time minutes, free text messages, free data up to a few gigabytes, free connections, free line rental, reduced line rental etc., are some of the incentives which are provided to the users under Nokia N8 deals.

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Facts on free Reverse phone lookup you must Know!

Now you can find out just who that irritating mysterious caller is. Find out if it's your ex-husband, your envious officemate, your annoying little sister, or simply an admirer. A high-quality reverse phone lookup service is what you need. Sounds new? Definitely. It's one of those high-tech things that you need for a variety of purposes. Here are just the top reasons why you need to have access to reverse cell phone lookup: 
1. Regain Peace of Mind
If an anonymous caller is persistently pestering your life with unwanted phone calls, here's how to deal with him. Most often, regular land line service providers offer a regular reverse cell phone lookup service for free. But most stalkers already know that. So what do they do? They use their cell phones.

Unfortunately, those free reverse phone lookup services offered by most land lines are not able to provide the cell number of callers. So what's a smart person to do? It's simple. Get a buck out and avail a paid reverse phone lookup service. As soon as you pay the small fee, you'll have that stalker's cell number right away.
2. End the Stalking Permanently
Look at it this way: your mobile phone company won't disclose the identity of your mysterious caller for a simple reason: they have agreed to a ‘no disclosure' agreement. So there is absolutely no way you can persuade, coerce, or even blackmail a mobile phone company to tell you just who that prankster is. But online paid reverse phone lookup service providers are different: they are not held by any similar agreement. Hence, they are able to provide the number you want as soon as you want it.

3. A Lot of Info for Your Buck

It takes a lot of resources, time, and energy to maintain a large database of numbers. To be able to collect and keep millions of cellular numbers is no easy task. That is why reverse phone lookup requires some fee to cover such enormous expenses.

You just have to pay a small fee to try out the service and you can run as many searches as you want—and end so many stalkers' happiness along the way.

4. Bust those stalkers without them knowing

Availing of a paid reverse phone lookup lets you find out who your stalker is without him finding out that you know (or are trying to). Your stalker will have no clue that you're actually tracing his identity. The reverse phone lookup company will keep your identity hidden while allowing the search engines to assist you in finding the real identity of your stalker. You can play his game along as you wish.

5. Know Your Stalker's Complete Background
Not only will you have the stalker's name and address, but also his birth date, and adoption details (if any). Interested to know if your stalker might be doing it for money? You can find out about the person's bankruptcies and liens too. Wondering why your ex is bothering you anonymously (or so he thinks)? You can see the date of his marriage and even his divorce proceedings (if any). You may even know his criminal offenses and police records.
Keep in mind that there is no ‘free reverse phone lookup' service that works. After all, such service is highly specialized and requires tremendous amount of investment.

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