Carnegie Mellon University
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Dr. Rahul Tongia
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Draft – Subject to Change
System-wide implications – Smart IT
Reasonably conservative assumptions
-- Cost per node assumed several % higher
than ENEL’s
project (which was blanket deployment)
-- Only includes benefits where IT could
play a role even within “Ultimate
Potential”
– Excludes trickle down/multiplier effects
or +ve externalities like higher industrial growth
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