Older wind farms still produce clean energy, but many weren't built for modern monitoring and control.
This lack of remote visibility causes problems for utility companies and other owners, who must immediately respond when regulators call for changes in production.
That's because the electrical grid has to be a Goldilocks kind of system: not too much electricity, not too little. It has to be just right.
Topics: Energy management, groov, Remote monitoring, optonews, OptoNews 2015-03-18
Last month at the IoT West conference in Las Vegas, a number of technical hurdles were presented that could potentially slow down the growing IoT movement. As the IoT movement gains momentum, it continues to absorb other industry movements such as m2m (MachineToMachine).
Topics: Energy management, groov, Internet of Things