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Smart meters might be the first step in our journey to a sustainable future. However, as stated by David Attenborough, the famed environmentalist and broadcaster, “We are, after all, the greatest problem solvers to have ever existed on Earth… Surely working together, we are powerful ...
To make the transition easier, chemical companies are working hard to find practical substitutes for CFCs. The most promising approach so far is to use CFC family members that are chemically altered to make them less dangerous to the environment. The chlorine - free substitutes is the high cost...
ASIMO is 4 feet 3 inches (1.3 meters) high, which is just the right height to look eye to eye with someone seated in a chair. This allows ASIMO to do the jobs it was created to do without being too big and menacing. Often referred to as looking like a "kid wearing a spacesuit,...
The device side refers to all devices that have networking and computing capabilities, such as PCs, mobile phones, smart TVs, home STBs, and smart water and electricity meters. In the IoT era, huge numbers of terminals will be connected to the network to aggregate the existing computing power...
I’m a junior from Law School . The new semester will begin anda group of newbies are about to arrive .In order to help them adapt to the new environment and academic studies ,I propose that an orientation program should be held during the first week of this September . ...
but that hardly means that toots are moving slowly. Scientists, for some reason, decided to measure how fast farts really go when they're moving at top speed. What they found is that these fast little puffscan actually travel at 10 feet per second, or a little over three meters per seco...
but that hardly means that toots are moving slowly. Scientists, for some reason, decided to measure how fast farts really go when they're moving at top speed. What they found is that these fast little puffscan actually travel at 10 feet per second, or a little over three meters per seco...
I live in the 8th floor of a high-rise, and it covers a little more than 100 square meters. It is a fairly nice place. My apartment has six rooms –one living room, one kitchen, two bathrooms and another two bedrooms. All of them are well-decorated and furnished. (There is a big...
Even though factories have become smarter over time, a simple sensor failure can cause havoc.Figure 2illustrates a factory floor with various conveyor belts, robots, control stations and so forth operating under normal working conditions. Figure 2: A typical layout for a smart factory (Source: NX...