The electric power grid depends on metering perhaps more than any other single factor.
Her group sponsors technical schools that train folks to work in metering, computers and generation facilities.
Although it has the go-ahead from government, PLDT scrapped a plan to begin metering in April.
Ironically, the potential benefits consumers are likely to gain from advanced metering technologies seem to shrink daily.
On the demand side, it could promote market-led efficiency by encouraging real-time metering of all electricity use.
Household metering, a precondition for sensible pricing, remains limited, with only a 50% coverage at best (Anglia).
Experts testifying Thursday encouraged lawmakers to provide financial incentives to utilities and states to encourage smart metering programs.
The metering programme started in late 2010 in Horsham, West Sussex, Medway in Kent and Southampton in Hampshire.
This is the idea behind smart metering, which has made a good deal of progress in the power industry.
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The key feature of a distributed system is so-called "smart metering, " which allows power to flow in both directions.
Cable access could be a welcome consumer alternative if Philippine Long Distance Telephone (PLDT) carries out its metering plan.
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Dipak Jethwa, research head of OCBC Securities, says he expects metering will become a reality in the Philippines within two years.
Revenue-grade metering would encourage motorists to charge their cars overnight, rather than in the evening when the grid is at peak capacity.
More and more utilities are tapping the capabilities of advanced metering technologies to enhance operations, forecasting, outage management, program evaluation and other functions.
At the Federal level, the 2005 Energy Act requires all federal buildings to be equipped with two-way metering and energy-management systems by 2012.
State laws usually require utility regulators to develop protocols for approving any meters or metering systems used to bill customers for electric service.
If spectrum is priced efficiently in an increasingly dynamic wireless world, the necessary overhead in network management and metering is likely to be quite costly.
And that "will be disastrous for the development of the Internet, " predicts Manny Amador, president of the Philippine League for Democratic Telecommunications, an anti-metering group.
The camera also includes an 11-point AF array and 63-zone dual-layer iFCL metering sensor together with 1080p Full HD video capabilities, in an affordable camera body.
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So Parks borrowed a tool common in the welding of plastic components, which is to gently agitate the hopper so that particles flow like water into a metering chamber.
The move comes as Glasgow-based Smart Metering Systems (SMS) bids to take advantage of a drive to fit every UK home with a smart meter by 2020.
There were also discussions around innovation that would be more relevant to utility markets such as smart metering, leak detection, pressure regulation, water quality monitoring and more.
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Meanwhile, the 2, 016-pixel RGB metering sensor provides precise data to the camera's Scene Recognition System, which optimises exposure, autofocus and white balance immediately before the shutter is released.
It also does not cover telephone conversations passing through international lines or telephone metering, increasingly used by police to secure telephone records of the numbers dialled by suspects.
"This could easily degenerate into chaos, " concedes Paul Heitman, a senior program architect at Comverge, which hopes to extend its metering expertise for air-conditioning systems to plug-in cars.
And because the public is largely uneducated on smart metering and energy price fluctuations, there hasn't been much of a demand, says Robert Lieberman of the Illinois Commerce Commission.
Itron (ITRI) has the leading market share in the global smart metering industry, and Echelon (ELON) provides network solutions and interfaces for street lighting, residential appliances and facility monitoring.
However, in districts where there are net metering rules in place, schools could sell excess energy back to the utility and get close to offsetting all of their energy bills.
The Nikon D5200 shares an AF system, metering sensor and scene recognition with the Nikon D7000 series, giving this camera a new level of performance and much enhanced image quality.
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