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Comm Tech.
Comm Tech Dan Kim
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Communication
Undergraduate 4
12/15/2011

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Data
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The key to understanding anf interpreting precision, progress, knowledge, persistent connectivity and efficiency. It quantifies research to achieve info and a big picture 
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The Cloud
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A computing system capable of storing and crunching the huge amounts of data that will be produced by devices/sensors.
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Progress
Definition
Exceeding the knowledge of other nations/businesses with our own. Everything needs to keep advancing
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Persistent Connectivity 
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Ensures more data since it is always "on"
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Sensors
Definition
Machines, devices and people that gather and transmit information 
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Audmented reality
Definition
When the virtual meets the real world
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Efficency
Definition
increases with the use of smart systems and technology
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Crowdsensing
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The willingness of many people activly to gather and upload information
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Smart grids
Definition
A system with smart meters connected through a fibre-optic network. it can then use a website to track power se to make a city more effiecent. The ultimate point is to allow dynamic pricing. Boulder
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Smart Meters
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The idea of putting intellfence at the edge (the smart interface with users and devices). These then go into the development of smart grids. The main objective of these is to lower the peak load and enable utilities to keep down their peak generating capacity. 
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Weightless World
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Things that shape our world literally have no shape
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Mirror Owlrd
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neliefe that people with access to smart systems will be vastly better informed than those without, giving them an unfair advanatge. OR an online diary reflecting the real world in which you live (lifestream)
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Quantified Self
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Indiv. using technology to help identify factors that make them deressed, keep them from sleep etc... self tracking
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Smart phone as a sensor
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Smart phones measure everything such as the users locations, whichi is then send back to the network, by using smarthone people are then able to do thing such as tracking their friends to controlling applience. 
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