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California Utilities Submit Proposal to Modernize Rooftop Solar Program

Pacific Gas and Electric Co. (PG&E), San Diego Gas & Electric Co. (SDG&E) and Southern California Edison (SCE) have written a proposal to modernize California’s 25-year-old rooftop solar program to support customer equity and help continue California’s progress toward a clean energy future. Recently submitted to the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), the joint proposal […]

Hypervisors in Robotics

Communications are much faster since you are no longer communicating across cables. Instead, communication happens through a low-latency shared memory space with deterministic time synchronization of operations. Source link

Smart Building Security Awareness Expands

In 2015, USA Networks aired one of the most realistic depictions of building hacking ever to be featured in a TV or movie. The lead character, Elliot, posing as a tech billionaire, walks into a highly secured data facility in upstate New York and obtains a tour. Afterward, he manages to sneak into a sensitive […]

All Robotics and Automation Stories and Videos

Robot HMI for Projects Automation To customize a robot interface, the only thing required is the robot HMI. However, there is a wide array of HMIs that differ from each other based on several factors. The challenge is to determine which is the best HMI. Shortening Sales Cycles; A Top Priority for Manufacturers Trade publications […]

How IoT Technology Can Help With Sustainability

IoT technology is beginning to live up to its promise of driving efficiency as well as sustainability.  Not a day goes by, it seems, without a depressing news story emerging about the environment. At the same time, there have been a plethora of stories about technology gone awry in recent years — whether it is […]

Turquoise Solar Project Achieves Commercial Operation

McCarthy Building Companies’ Renewable Energy & Storage group has recently completed construction of the Turquoise Solar Project in Washoe County, Nev.  The new 61 MW DC solar farm is located on approximately 180 acres in the Reno Technology Park – a 2,200-acre industrial park shared between Apple and Turquoise Solar, who own approximately 1,600 and […]