Smart Grid
One area where intelligence is being embedded into technical systems is in electric power infrastructure - the Grid.The demand for intelligence in this context includes several factors
- efficiency (delivering more with less)
- reliability and robustness (fault tolerance)
- affordable growth
- systemic risk (climate change, national security)
Sources
US Department of Energy, Smart Grid (pdf),Gridwise Alliance
Raymond Kelley, Architecting Intelligence into AMI systems (Penn Energy)
Gene Wolf, Embedded Intelligence (April 2007)
