BY USING IT. Edition -3
Popularly called as the smart grid, this automated electricity distribution system can have a substantial impact on global energy use & carbon emissions. The electricity grid is one of humanity’s greatest technological feats. However, like many other achievements, also a technology has hardly changed for a century.
It consisted of a few elements: a source of power, a point of consumption, & wires to carry from the source to consumption. This structure remained until the 1990s, when the birth of IT began to change things a bit. IT companies realized that constant inputs from sensors in the network could change the way the grid is managed, but high costs & low bandwidths prevented massive adoption immediately.
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