1 The Smart Car In 1991‚ Nicolas Hayek‚ chairman of Swatch‚ announced an agreement with Volkswagen to develop a battery-powered "Swatch car." At the time‚ Hayek said his goal was to build "an ecologically inoffensive‚ highquality city car for two people" that would sell for about $6‚400. The Swatchmobile concept was based on Hayek’s conviction that consumers become emotionally attached to cars just as they do to watches. Like the Swatch‚ the Swatchmobile (officially named "Smart") was
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Tech.Elctronics & Instrumentation ) N.E.C‚Nellore ABSTRACT : Smart sensors represent the next evolutionary tools for studying the environment..The smart environment relies first and foremost on sensory data from the real world. Sensory data comes from smart sensors of different modalities in distributed locations. Smart sensor systems are capable of prediction‚ interpretation‚communication and intelligent interaction with the environment
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Smart House Some people think that it is difficult to find a relationship between home and computer. Usually people think that computer just using in a company and office. It is a misleading concept as we have a SMART HOUSE. The complete SMART HOUSE System has been available since early 1993. In a SMART HOUSE‚ people build a relationship between computer and home. The SMART HOUSE is a home management system that allows home owners to easily manage their daily lives by providing for a lifestyle
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Smart Textiles is building an internationally acknowledged centre for innovation‚ development‚ design and production of the next generation’s textiles. In our region - with Borås as a centre - a nationally known cluster of textile and confection companies are working to link all these companies together through Smart Textiles. The goal is to operate a dynamic innovation system‚ Smart Textiles‚ to promote growth‚ strengthen the international position and create new job opportunities in the region
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SMART CARS While the reading shows out smart cars’ god points‚ the lecture refutes all of this. Firstly‚ smart cars are the safest one so that car’ accidents can be decrease‚ as the reading states. They have airbags around and anti-lock brake to protect the drivers. Despite what the reading claims‚ the professor says that smart cars are not effective on some special surface such as snowed or iced streets. Drivers may not control properly on slipery surface‚ or the ABS feature doesnt work correctly
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Smart homes A Smart Home is one that provides its home owners comfort‚ security‚ energy efficiency (low operating costs) and convenience at all times‚ regardless of whether anyone is home. Smart Home" is the term commonly used to define a residence that has appliances‚ lighting‚ heating‚ air conditioning‚ TVs‚ computers‚ entertainment audio & video systems‚ security‚ and camera systems that are capable of communicating with one another and can be controlled remotely by a time schedule‚ from any
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homes pertaining to actual usage. Smart grids allows for two way communications between the electricity company and the homes allowing both electric companies and homes to operate more efficiently. This two way communication will allow home users to cut costs by efficiently utilizing energy. Smart grids will also allow the electricity companies to raise prices when the demand is high and lower prices when the demand is low. Mirroring the price advantage‚ smart grids will allow the user to dictate
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Professor McCoy 20 November 2013 Smart Phones and Communication No secret to anyone that the period in which we live is a period of cell phones‚ internet and social networking. Examples of this are forums‚ Facebook‚ Twitter‚ BlackBerry Messenger‚ the “Whatsapp‚” lnstagram‚ and many more sites and programs of social communication. Now the majority of people around the world have Smart Phones and it does not matter if it is an iPhone or an Android‚ it matters how they use it. Because cell phones have
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INDUSTRY Classification and definition of the industry The relevant industry for Smart Car is worldwide automakers because the target audience will be cost-conscious Americans. In 1999‚ the American car market was filled with many foreign imports that directly competed against and in some instances beat American domestic car producers. Analysis of existing competitors Today there are other low cost automobile manufacturers marketing to the United States. None‚ however‚ produce anything
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Smart Card Tutorial - Part 1 First Published in September 1992 Introduction To Smart Cards Even the name Smart Card captures the imagination‚ however such a term is ambiguous and is used in many different ways. ISO uses the term‚ Integrated Circuit Card (ICC) to encompass all those devices where an integrated circuit is contained within an ISO 1 identification card piece of plastic. The card is 85.6mm x 53.98mm x 0.76mm and is the same as the ubiquitous bank card with its magnetic stripe that is
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