Carnegie Mellon University
©
Dr. Rahul Tongia
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Draft – Subject to Change
Real Prospects for Smart IT System
–ENEL
(Italy) offers glimpse of possibilities
–All users
(~30 million) to be converted by 2005-06
–~20
million converted today; 700,000+/month
–~80-100$
total (avg.) cost per node, installed
–Includes
back-end
–Total 2.4
billion Euros
–~4 Year
payback just from operational savings
–2-way
communications and control capabilities
–Developing
Countries: hard to make apples to apples comparison
–Utilities
lack “standard” equipment required in conjunction
with IT solutions
–ARCs,
Variable Transformers, etc.