Utility companies in developed economies are looking to leverage the Internet of Things (IoT) to improve the development and operation of smart grids. However, an IoT setup cannot exist as a standalone web and needs many supporting IT services, translating into opportunities for IT service providers and benets for utilities and their consumers. WHITE PAPER Utilities

Urban water supply systems are complex and dynamic in nature, as a result, can be considered to manage owing enhanced urbanization levels, climate change, growing varying consumer demands, limited resources. The operation of such system must managed effectively for sustainable satisfy the demand. This creates need intelligent purposes operational management. In recent years, computing technolog...

Since the early 2000s, terms ‘re-municipalization’ and ‘reverse privatization’ entered lexicon as several examples emerged of governments taking ownership assets services that had previously been privatized or outsourced. Various methods are used to implement re-municipalization decisions differences observed across countries sectors. The approaches most frequently adopted through contract term...

By providing feedback to customers on home electricity and natural gas usage with a focus on peer comparisons, utilities can reduce energy consumption at a low cost. We analyze data from two large-scale, random-assignment field experiments conducted by utility companies providing electricity (the Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD)) and electricity and natural gas (Puget Sound Energy (...

BACKGROUND Four social audits in 1998, 2003, 2006 and 2009 identified actions that Nicaragua could take to reduce corruption and public perception in primary health care and other key services. METHODS In a 71-cluster sample, weighted according to the 1995 census and stratified by geographic region and settlement type, we audited the same five public services: health centres and health posts,...

modern societies belief life insurance scheme, which is designed to be backbone of man survival, ensure financial security and offers readymade source of long term capital financing for the infrastructural project is capable of combating the besetting problem of man so that life can be made easy and continuous. the dramatic increase in competition within the insurance sector and the needs of in...

In the present paper the Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) Algorithm is introduced for best routing identification applied in urban solid waste collection. The proposed solid waste management system is based on a geo-referenced Spatial Database supported by a Geographic Information System (GIS). The GIS takes account of all the required parameters for solid waste collection. These parameters involv...

In Norway, a health reform was recently adopted to improve continuity of care. Services that were carried out in hospitals were transferred to municipalities. Small and medium size municipalities have established inter-municipal cooperation to provide specialized services across borders. The research project eHealth-extended Care Coordination studied the intermunicipal cooperation for assessmen...