Future Infrastructural Replacement Through the Smart Bridge Concept

The Impact of a Smart Home Concept on Future Grids

Electric power systems are experiencing profound transformation driven by various factors. Bearing in mind the fact that most of today's electrical energy is produced using CO2 emitting fossil fuels, there is an obvious need to switch to renewable energy resources. Various new approaches under a 'Smart Gris umbrella' have thus emerged to tackle this problem. One of them is a so called Smart Hou...

Realizing the smart grid of the future through AMI technology

Smart Specialisation – The Concept

Addressing the issue of specialisation in the R&D and innovation is particularly crucial for regions/countries that are not leaders in any of the major science or technology domains. Many would argue that these regions/countries need to increase the intensity of knowledge investments in the form of high education and vocational training, public and private R&D, and other innovation-related acti...

Building the Future Smart Utility through IT OT integration

The conventional value chain that has underpinned utilities for so long is today undergoing disruptive changes. One way flows of energy and digital information are evolving into multi-directional flows of real time data spanning various aspects of operations. A major driver of this dramatic shift is the increasing penetration of consumer centric technologies, such as distributed generation and ...

First Smart Bridge in Canada

On November 5, 1993, the City of Calgary completed the construction of the first smart prestressed concrete highway bridge built in Canada. A total of six pretensioned girders of a continuous two span skew highway bridge were prestressed using carbon fibre composite cables (CrCC) developed by Tokyo Rope, and Leadline rods produced by Mitsubishi Kasei, Japan. This paper describes the constructio...