Pitzer College is just one of several commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities that have recently installed power management and control systems to avoid peak kW and/or kWh demand charges ...

The target vehicle for this project is a vintage intercity transport bus (think Greyhound) whose instrument panel was sparse and mostly nonfunctional. The speedometer cable was twisted off some place ...

Rationalizing an investment in a facility's infrastructure can be a difficult prospect for any plant engineer or technician, often requiring extensive justification. Investments that are deemed ...

The monitoring systems used today in hydropower plants are based on a number of sensors that are directly mounted to the machines. The monitoring systems generate alarms if certain threshold values ...

Complexity is an insidious and invisible enemy in any human endeavor. What makes modern media facilities interesting is in no small measure that we have implemented complex webs of baseband and IT ...

The USE Controller ECS is a robust energy monitoring and control system. According to the manufacturer, the new system — The Mini — is a scaled-down version of the company’s flagship model and is ...

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (Feb. 24, 2015) -- The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville awarded the last of 13 contractors to the fourth generation of its Utility Monitoring ...

Landsnet operates the transmission system of Iceland, which sits in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean with no interconnections. The islanded transmission system consists of 3270 km (2032 miles) of ...

Millions of pounds worth of priceless, irreplaceable historic structures and artifacts exist in the Heritage industry. In order to preserve these items, it is essential to carefully control the ...