As readers of this blog might remember, I began following the Fukushima Daiichi and Daiini events as they unfolded starting on March 11, 2011. The disaster at Fukushima Daiichi occurred because of the lack of […]
Conservation voltage reduction (CVR) or volt-var is an approach to demand response (DR) and energy efficiency (EE) that can provide major benefits without significant alterations to the power distribution system, unlike other DR/EE approaches. Volt-var […]
A blog post has been posted by Harsha Vardhan about Google’s plans for retiring its enterprise geospatial products. According to Harsha the Maps Business Unit of Google, which provides mapping services consumers and businesses, is […]
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) has approved the Augmented Reality Markup Language 2.0 Interface Standard (ARML 2.0). ARML 2.0 provides a free and open, non-proprietary encoding that content providers can use to specify the location […]
Energy performance modeling for buildings is a new field, but one that is getting a lot of interest under the impetus of government mandates and incentives. It’s so new that there is no set of […]
February 26, 2015 the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) adopted new rules to protect net neutrality. This is in response to a court decision in April 2010, when the U.S. Court of Appeals for the […]
INSPIRE-Geospatial World Forum 2015, a joint conference organized by the European Commission and Geospatial Media and Communications, has made available its full conference program. Almost 500 presentations are scheduled on topics including building information modelling […]
A very exciting project has been proposed at LocationTech (it’s in the Project Proposal Phase as defined in the Eclipse Development Process). Simply put, GeoWave intends to do for “big data” databases (initially Apache Accumulo) […]