What are the innovations in the electricity metering solutions market?

Panoramic powerAccounting for electric energy may open up new opportunities for improving the efficiency of the enterprise. At the same time, modern solutions in this matter, integrated with advanced software, can not only transmit accurate data for each unit of energy consumption, but even warn of possible equipment malfunctions, thereby predicting possible breakdowns and failure.

This and not only distinguishes modern electricity metering systems from traditional ones, which we will try to understand in this article. Typically, the electricity metering system is represented by meters that directly capture data on energy consumption, as well as data transmission elements and their further processing on the computer of the main power engineer. The disadvantage of such a system is that there are many counter manufacturers on the market ...

 

Optical Transistors - The Future of Electronics

Optical Transistors - The Future of ElectronicsAlmost all technologies, although they tend to develop, eventually become obsolete. This pattern did not bypass silicon electronics. It is easy to notice that in recent years its progress has slowed significantly and generally changed the direction of its development.

The number of transistors in microchips no longer doubles every two years, as it was before. And today, computer performance is increasing not by increasing their operating frequency, but by increasing the number of cores in the processor, that is, by expanding the capabilities for parallel operations. It's no secret that any modern computer is built of billions of small transistors, which are semiconductor devices that conduct electrical current when a control signal is applied. But the smaller the transistor, the more pronounced spurious effects and leaks ...

 

Thermoelectric material with ordered nanotubes

Thermoelectric material with ordered nanotubesThe world's first thermoelectric material based on ordered nanotubes was developed by a group of scientists from the Department of Functional Nanosystems and High-Temperature Materials of the National University of Science and Technology “MISiS” in collaboration with researchers from the Swedish University of Technology Lulelo and the Jena University named after Friedrich Schiller. Information on innovative development was presented in the form of an article in the journal Advanced Functional Materials.

The new material has a polymer nature, so it is flexible. In addition, an additive made of nanotubes was used here, which greatly improves its electrical conductivity. The prospects for the material are colossal. In principle, it is applicable for charging mobile gadgets without the need for other traditional energy sources. A bracelet or case for a smartphone made of new material will allow you to charge small portable devices ...

 

The 10 best battery technologies for charging and storing future energy

10 best battery and energy storage technologies of the futureAll digital devices, such as players, smartphones, voice recorders and other wearable gadgets, as well as electric vehicles, are being improved more and more in their capabilities. Limitations are imposed mainly by the finite amount of energy stored in the batteries. A smartphone, for example, works after the next recharge for a maximum of 2 days. Now, if the batteries were improved, made more capacious, then work on a single charge could be extended many times.

However, smartphones, unfortunately, are developing in the past 10 years much faster than improving battery technology. But there is hope for improvement, because science does not stand still, and in recent years, scientists have begun to offer very interesting new solutions.They can be called battery technology of the future. Let's pay attention to some of them. In 2022, the Israeli company StoreDot plans to launch production ...

 

Photovoltaic Motorways

In 2006, an American engineer Scott Bruso from Idaho, along with his wife Julie, created Solar Roadways. Having collected the necessary amount of money through crowdfunding, the company began to produce modular road blocks with integrated solar panels and LED inserts, coated with laminated glass, the strength of which is not inferior to concrete. The idea was so brilliant that it instantly found many supporters around the world.

Since 2014, the invention began to be introduced. For the first time it was installed in a parking lot near a supermarket. Car parking literally converted the energy of the sun into electricity, which was then used both to illuminate the interactive parking road signs and to melt the snow. Soon, the intention of the inventor became interested outside the United States. In 2014, the idea of ​​electricity-generating pavement was realized ...

 

Glass building blocks - electricity generators

Glass building blocks - electricity generatorsStartup company Build Solar introduced its innovative technology called “Solar Squared” (Solar Square). This technology is designed to provide buildings with the ability to convert solar energy into electricity without the need for traditional solar panels.

Renewable energy experts from the University of Exeter, led by solar scientist Hassan Beig and world leading renewable energy scientists, Professor Tapas Mullik, have developed a completely new technique that can be classified as building-integrated photovoltaics. Solar Squared or Solar Square is a glass block that can be built directly into the building structure, being succinctly integrated into a particular design. Blocks can be produced in different colors and be of different sizes ...

 

What are memristors and where are they applicable?

What are memristors and where are they applicable?The name "memristor" comes from two words - memory and resistor. This microelectronic component is a kind of passive component, a resistor, but unlike a conventional resistor, a memristor has a kind of memory. The bottom line is that the memristor changes its conductivity in accordance with the amount of electric charge flowing through it - depending on the value of the integral over time passing through the current component. A memristor can be described as a two-terminal with a nonlinear CVC, and with a certain hysteresis.

In the early 70s, the American professor Leon Chua proposed a theoretical model, which described the relationship between the voltage applied to the element and the current integral over time. For many years, the theory of Professor Chua remained a theory, and only in 2008Hewlett-Packard team of scientists, led by Stanley Williams, created in the laboratory a sample of a memory element...

 

How the noise of a big city turns into electricity

How the noise of a big city turns into electricityA large modern city is always noise. And noise is one of the stress factors for any living thing. It is customary to defend oneself from city noise: we equip the walls of buildings with high-quality sound insulation, we make the windows of houses soundproof if possible. Needless to say, poor fellows living near airports and noisy freeways, for which the pecking of pedestrians' feet is like the rustling of autumn foliage, compared to their usual everyday acoustic background.

Meanwhile, screeching sirens, buzzing wheels, stomping pedestrians, noisy cranes at construction sites, carriages rattling wheels on rails - all this is not just enormous unbearable noise, it is, first of all, mechanical vibrations propagating through the air, which means it is wasted (and even to the detriment) kinetic energy, attributable simply to the so-called "noise pollution". But is it possible to wrap these fluctuations not to the detriment, but to the benefit? ...

 
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