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Pondering the Smart Grid
There's been quite a bit of activity on this front recently: Microsoft has introduced its Hohm energy monitoring system, Google is planning to trot out an energy management dashboard, and IBM, Cisco, and AT&T all see dollar signs when they see the words "Smart Grid" if recent press announcements are anything to go by. Perhaps most importantly (to my mind, anyway), NIST has published the interim report, compiled by EPRI at NIST's request, to describe a framework for interoperability standards. 
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