While you are waiting ... ELON is working on peripheral app system for the smart grid about to become uniform in certain metro areas.
Echelon's Edge Control Node (ECN) is Verizon 3G certified.
The ECN runs Echelon's Control Operating System (COS) software, which provides distributed intelligence and control throughout the smart grid and allows utilities to run smart grid applications at the edge of the grid, nearest the consumer. Certifying the ECN product through Verizon Wireless' Open Development program ensures that utilities can use the nation's premier wireless network as the backhaul for their smart grid systems.
Echelon's ECN, driven by COS software, is capable of hosting smart grid apps in a similar fashion to Android-based smartphones. Doing so puts intelligent distributed control in every neighborhood to help make the smart grid more reliable and efficient through applications such as intelligent outage restoration, residential solar inverter management, and real-time energy availability information processing to smart electric vehicle chargers. Coupled with Echelon's NES System, the leading smart grid solution in Europe and leading next-generation power-line-based smart grid solution in the U.S., the ECN 7000 series enables utilities to create smart grids that react in near-real time to remove stress from the grid, provide consumer-facing benefits, incorporate emerging smart grid and energy-aware homes and consumer devices, and incorporate almost any existing metering system to protect a utility's existing investments.
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Previously Oshman worked at ROLM to develop a digital smartphone system that was sold to IBM. Think this is what will happen with ELON- not today, but in due time...
Until then PPS floats with overall mkt conditions... and some PR news....
Not so sure I want to pick up any NEI, unless its over sold at .74 or less.......
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