MIT Enterprise Forum of Cambridge RFID SIG/NFC-HUB
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RFID Event: The Future of Building and Home Automation: RFID meets the Smart Grid
November 14, 2011
Start: 6:00pm End: 9:00pm Location:
MIT Stata Center, Room 32-141
32 Vassar Street
Cambridge, MA 02139
Map (http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=32+Vassar+Street+Cambridge+MA+02139+United+States)
For many years wireless sensors for home automation lay in the wilderness until governments around the world began to mandate their use in smart meters. More than 75 million smart meters are now installed worldwide, and it is the beginning of meters talking to thermostats, room occupancy sensors and home networks. Indeed, initiatives are under way to install sensors ubiquitously in cities – one such project in Europe – “LivingPlanIT” – is installing almost 3 million sensors in the first wave of a “trial” in a new “test-city” in Portugal. Many wireless sensors will also need energy harvesters to enable twenty year lifetimes, overcoming lifetime limitations of conventional batteries. Those solutions are now being deployed.
Register (http://www.mitforumcambridge.org/events/rfid-event-the-future-of-building-and-home-automation-rfid-meets-the-smart-grid/#register)
This session covers the new wave of technologies and their progress to providing building control and automation, ultimately feeding it into the smart grid enabling far greater energy efficiency and many other benefits. We look at what you should expect to come, debate the path to get there and cover the unmet opportunities.
Please register at: http://www.mitforumcambridge.org/events/rfid-event-the-future-of-building-and-home-automation-rfid-meets-the-smart-grid/