Texas-based Smart Grid Research Expanding Worldwide
Intel is a sponsor of Pecan Street,
a leading consumer energy research organization that is analyzing how
home owners in the Mueller development in Austin, Texas consume energy.
These advances are providing a much deeper look into home energy
consumption than ever before and producing actionable data for utilities
in varying stages of grid modernization, advanced metering
infrastructure, distributed generation, and Big Data and Analytics
programs. See the latest video around this exciting research.
The Pecan Street research has been going on a couple years now, but it was just this past summer that the Pike Powers Lab
officially opened. This is an independent facility where companies of
all sizes can develop, test and validate a wide range of consumer
electronics, software and hardware applications that incorporate
wireless, big data management, metrology, building controls, solar
photovoltaics, natural gas fuel cell, energy storage,
machine-to-machine, vehicle charging and disaggregation technologies.
This sophisticated facility boasts nearly 80 TB of high speed Dell
computing systems, based on Intel® Xeon® processors and sophisticated
National Instruments and Schneider Electric product testing equipment as
well near real-time analytics powered by the Intel® Distribution for
Apache Hadoop*.
Insights from Pecan Street are also now being shared with the Electric
Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) who is exploring innovations from
this data at a state-wide level.
Pecan Street has now expanded to other parts of the country, most
recently to San Diego, CA and Colorado. They have also signed an
agreement with Amsterdam that will allow them to expand their research
into Northern Europe.
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