ak demand periods and save consumers a lot of money, with virtually no impact on the homeowner convenience. Applications like this can avoid more expensive energy storage options like batteries.
The smart city network opportunity is huge and offers unprecedented opportunities to better manage the physical materials and energy we all need to lead a safe, healthy, comfortable, sustainable, and fun way of life. A smart city is evolutionary and every person represents a “node” on that network and contributes to its future direction. There are still plenty of opportunities for governments and industry to provide good practices, regulations, and standards to guide that process. The level of communications we have achieved and are adding have the potential to achieve great things.
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Rick is a senior consultant at ARC. He performs research into and consults with clients on technology areas such as process automation, energy management, advanced process control (APC), simulation, and optimization.