Carnegie Mellon University
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Dr. Rahul Tongia
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Draft – Subject to Change
Design Issues
–Questions
of Design
–Time
frames for implementing – waiting for “right” technologies
–Directionality
of information flow
–Interim for DR: why not use digital
radio for announcing “peaks”?
–Is the WAN
the bottleneck? Use of complementary infrastructure (e.g.,
broadband)
–Real Time
Pricing plans
–Modularity
and scalability for implementation and realizing benefits
–Demand
Response and DSM
–Short Term
vs. Long Term abilities to shift loads
–Human Intervention vs. passive
–New
technologies for the home (e.g., smart refrigerators)
–Standardization
and new standards
–802.15.4 (“Zigbee”) – changes the consumer side?