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July, 2009: Wireless Healthcare Market Brief
May, 2009: Cellular M2M Worldwide Market Forecast
Consumer M2M Report: The Approaching Mass Market
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October, 2009 Snaps: Microgrids Revisited
From the current issue of Beecham Snaps:
In Snaps #9, published in December, 2008, we focused on microgrids -- one of a number of terms for small, local power generation systems able to automatically isolate themselves from the main power grid in the event of an outage, or, in certain "off-grid" installations, completely isolated from the grid.
Since then, stimulus spending on aging utility grids, combined with a perceived need to reduce carbon emissions, has continued to heighten interest in M2M technologies like smart metering, as well as renewable energy sources and related technologies.
Frequent announcements from governments, large manufacturers, technology companies, start-ups, utilities, and even traditional energy suppliers, have kept all of this in the public eye.
Newly created and large planned wind farms and the increasing use of solar panels are part of this picture, but these are often perceived within an older pattern, not as part of the disruptive development that microgrids represent -- they can be seen as having the same relation to the older grid as the PC has to a mainframe computer.
For the full article, see: Microgrids Revisited
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