Ambient is in the July 4th issue of Fortune magazine.REAL-TIME MONITORING Better yet, many outages— which cause losses of some $150 billion each year within the U.S.—can be avoided outright. Communications technology from Massachusetts-based Ambient Corp., for example, is enabling utilities like Duke Energy to install intelligent sensors and switches across its power distribution systems, providing a level of visibility and control that utilities have never before enjoyed. “By combining our communications platform with software applications we’ve developed, utilities can perform real-time current and voltage sensing,” says John J. Joyce, Ambient’s president and CEO. “That lets them spot spikes or significant decreases in the flow of energy before brownouts or blackouts occur. It means they can act, instead of react. That’s vital, as one of the key ways we’re going to meet the increased demand for energy in coming years is to deliver it more efficiently.” http://www.ambientcorp.com/Fortune_smartgrid_110704.pdf
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