The startup is helping bring smart home technology to the multi-family rental market. Five years ago, a Portland, Oregon real estate developer approached Sce Pike, a mobile design developer, to help him differentiate one of his new apartment properties. He knew his demographic well, and a younger generation of apartment renters was looking for a […]
Former First Solar CTO brings years of industry knowledge to long-duration battery storage company WILSONVILLE, Ore., Feb. 23, 2021 — ESS Inc., a manufacturer of long-duration iron-based flow batteries for commercial and utility-scale energy storage applications, announces the addition of renewable energy industry veteran Raffi Garabedian to their board of directors. Prior to joining the […]
Visa is set to take advantage of Brexit to raise interchange fees on cross-border transactions between the UK and EU, according to the Financial Times. The move comes as the payments giant faces an investigation by the US Justice Department over possible anticompetitive practices in debit card transaction routing. Source link
Scientists make a big leap in development of soft robotic grippers by integrating sensing mechanisms into 3D printable fingers. Source link
By Erik Fossum Færevaag, Founder and President of Disruptive Technologies. The Internet of Things (IoT) has been slowly building for a decade, with m2m (machine to machine) communication being applied to more sectors and applications every year. But with the advent of Covid-19 and the unprecedented requirement for remote working, the need for smarter, faster […]
Researchers demonstrate a new method to fabricate solar perovskite solar cells in ambient air bringing their efficiency up to 18.3%, which could boost perovskite technology towards production and commercialization of high performance and stable devices. Incredible progress has been made in Perovskite Solar Cells (PSCs) in the last 10 years, with their power conversion efficiency […]
A touch imperfect? You don’t always know whom you’re going to annoy. But if you’re going to annoy a customer, it’s probably unwise to annoy someone who’s won the George Polk Award for legal reporting. more Technically Incorrect Yet here we are with AT&T twiddling its thumbs over here and Josh Marshall, the celebrated journalist […]
The Schneider Electric Polska plant deals with the production of low voltage apparatus switches and accessories for these products. They have implemented an autonomous mobile robot MiR500 that transports finished products between the production line and the warehouse. A MiR500 Robot Lowers Transport Costs at Schneider Electric Case Study from | Mobile Industrial Robots (MiR) […]
When the Port of Moerdijk had a large wind farm installed at the Southern Netherlands municipality in 2020, operated by Vattenfall, one of the European leaders in green energy, officials realized the turbine towers could serve an additional purpose: hosting an Internet of Things (IoT) network that provides key sensor data to the bustling port […]
Renewables are set to form the backbones of our future energy system and among them, photovoltaics (PV) has rapidly become one of the most economic energy generation technology. The price of electricity generated by PV has reached a levelized cost of electricity of 5-10 €c/kWh, leading to a major acceleration of its deployment with over […]