A growing recognition of the need to modernize the grid to meet tomorrows challenges has found articulation in the vision of a Smart Grid. The essence of this vision is a fully-automated power delivery network that can ensure a two-way flow of electricity and information between the power plants and appliances and all points in between.
Solid waste management is an essential concept in the day to day life. Due to increase of many industries and man- made things, a lot of waste gets collected which is hazardous to the environment and its occupants. These wastes can be Recycled, Disposed, Buried or burnt and make the environment clean and free from hazardous solid wastes.
Current authentication systems suffer from many weaknesses. With all the means of technology developing, it can be very easy for ‘others’ to fabricate or to steal identity or to hack someones password. Users nowadays are provided with major password stereotypes such as textual passwords, biometric scanning, tokens or cards (such as an ATM).
BitTorrent is a protocol that enables fast downloading of large files using minimum Internet bandwidth. It costs nothing to use and includes no spyware or popup advertising. Because of the nature of this protocol, large files can be handled more efficiently than thetypical client/server method. The protocol was designed in April 2001 and implemented in Summer 2002 by programmer BramCohen, and is now maintained by BitTorrent.
A Storage Area Network is a high-speed sub network of shared storage devices. A SAN’s architecture works in a way that makes all storage devices available to all servers on a LAN or WAN. A Storage Area Network can be anything from two servers on a network accessing a central pool of storage devices to several thousand servers accessing many millions of megabytes of storage.
An image retrieval system is a computer system for browsing, searching and retrieving images from a large database of digital images. Most traditional and common methods of image retrieval utilize some method of adding metadata such as captioning, keywords, or descriptions to the images so thatretrieval can be performed over the annotation words.
Switchgrass is one of the perennial grasses with scientific name Panicum virgatum. It is an ideal biomass energy source because of its moderate to high productivity, stand longevity, high moisture and nutrient use efficiency and adaptability to most agricultural regions in North America. Switchgrass produced 540% more renewable than nonrenewable energy consumed. Switchgrass can be densified into pelletized biofuel and used for space heating purpose with a close couple gasifier pellet stove.