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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Creating S.M.A.R.T. Goals Specific Measurable Attainable Realistic Timely Specific - A specific goal has a much greater chance of being accomplished than a general goal. To
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Street Smarts over Book Smarts Gerald Graff is a Professor of English and Education in the University of Illinois at Chicago. In Graff’s essay‚ “Hidden Intellectualism”‚ Graff compares street smarts to book smarts. Graff debates the common belief that having book smarts gives one an intellectual advantage over other forms of intellectualism. Gerald Graff supports this belief by telling a personal story‚ explaining where the education systems fails‚ and stating that people stereotype intellect with
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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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ABSTRACT This paper will focus and investigate the SMART car sculptured by Micro Compact Car (MCC)‚ a wholly owned subsidiary of Daimler-Benz. Hambach‚ France was chosen as the production site‚ where the main suppliers were integrated in a supplier’s park called “Smart Ville”. MCC used such supply chain practices which were never used before such as supplier involvement‚ outsourcing the main manufacturing and modular production. Complete modules were attached in the rigid body frame called “Tridion”
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What is a smart city? • A smart city has been defined as a ‘knowledge’‚ ‘digital’‚ ‘cyber’ or ‘eco’ city; representing a concept open to a variety of interpretations‚ depending on the goals set out by a smart city’s planners. We might refer to a smart city as an improvement on today’s city both functionally and structurally‚ using information and communication technology (ICT) as an infrastructure. • A city well performing in a forward-looking way in [economy‚ people‚ governance‚ mobility
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Product decisions in marketing (PRODUCT) Case No. 4: “SMART Cards” ____________________________________________________________________________ SMART CARDS S mart is the operative word among many product developers these days. For example‚ smart card is the name of an advanced form of pocket- and purse-sized cards that may soon usher in a new era of cashless electronic commerce. Although they resemble familiar ATM cards‚ each smart card is equipped with a computer chip instead of a black
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spur ubiquitous computing researches. Smart dust is a tiny dust size device with extra-ordinary capabilities. Smart dust combines sensing‚ computing‚ wireless communication capabilities and autonomous power supply within volume of only few millimeters and that too at low cost. These devices are proposed to be so small and light in weight that they can remain suspended in the environment like an ordinary dust particle. These properties of Smart Dust will render it useful in monitoring real
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Would you consider it smart management? Explain your answer. esence products provide the highest-quality videoconferencing available on the market to date. Only a handful of companies‚ such as Cisco‚ HP‚ and Polycom‚ supply these products. 3. What are the ways in which videoconferencing provides value to a business? Would you consider it smart management? Explain your answer. Ans-2: Yes‚ I would consider it smart management because in businesses where the company men need to interact and
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electric company and the homes receiving the electricity with the communication coming from the electric company to the homes. The current electricity infrastructure in the United States is more than 100 years old and because of this fact‚ it is outdated resulting in a great lack of efficiency. There is no way for the electricity company to obtain information from the individual homes pertaining to actual usage. Smart grids allows for two way communications between the electricity company and the
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