IBM, UNSW & Ausgrid team to offer smart grid training

Written by: Stephen WithersA team from the University of New South Wales won the bronze medal at this year's RoboCup competition, despite scoring more goals than any other team.

For the tenth time in 13 years, a University of New South Wales has finished in the top three of the RoboCup 2012 robot soccer tournament.

If you follow the energy sector, you’d be aware that the word “smart” gets bandied about quite a lot. Smart meters, smart cities and smart grids are all the rage. New South Wales based retailer and distributor EnergyAustralia has picked up a neat $100M as the winning bidder for the "Smart Grid, Smart City" project.

machines:

debian wheezy suse 11

commands:

ldapsearch -ZZ -h ad.unsw.edu.au -x -D z3208682@AD.UNSW.EDU.AU -W perl -we "use Net::LDAP; print Net::LDAP->new ('ad.unsw.edu.au')->start_tls(verify => 'require', capath => '/etc/ssl/certs/')->{errorMessage}"

results:

machine 1, command 1: TLS: hostname does not match CN in peer certificate machine 1, command 2: works machine 2, co

Logica has followed up its October 2009 survey the smart grid industry in Australia with new survey that shows significant progress in the last 12 months but identifies massive challenges for the energy sector in developing the more intimate customer relationships and developing the new business models that smart grids will engender.

IBM has announced a consulting, design and implementation service to help electricity utilities with the transformation to smart grids.

Written by: Graeme Philipson | Published in: NetworkingA new IDC report predicts a nearly $2 billion annual spend on ICT by Australia’s utility sector by 2015, boosted by Smart Grid investments.

Written by: Beverley Head | Published in: TrainingCharles Sturt University is the latest local institution to begin offering a free online course in computing as part of the open online course revolution currently sweeping the sector.

Cisco has formed an alliance with smart metering company, Itron to incorporate IPv6 based communications technology in products for the smart grid market.

U.S. engineers at Duke University have developed a new type of metamaterial that allows them to control light in a similar way that we control electrical currents within electronic devices. Their experiments could eventually lead to the replacement of electrical components with those based on optical technologies.