Essay On Grid Architecture

During the early years of the 20th century the United States was powered by over 4000 electric utilities with each of these utilities acting as a single entity. At that time a vast majority of those utilities used low voltage connections from generators in close proximity to the distribution lines that power the customers.

This journal will look at the economy as a whole and what that means for the growing cost of infrastructures. Should we be combining public and privately owned utilities? Will federal funding be enough to sustain our nation? By defining the pros and cons of combining public and private, these questions can be answered. By the start of the next decade, this current state could drastically change.

Within the realm of open source information, a trove of resources are readily available delineating locations of individual power plants, major electrical lines, and sub stations serving the United States and Illinois. Most apparent is not necessarily the ease of access to information, but how piecing together the varied, disparate data can be used to create a picture that show location, connectivity, and potential vulnerabilities to national and state-level power grid.

The elements of design were created by Arthur Wesley Dow to help people see, describe, and create visual qualities in a systematic way. It consists of 7 elements: line, shape, form, colour, value, texture and space.

The last major step in connecting your home to the grid is the signing of an interconnection agreement with the utility

An urban area is the region surrounding a city. It is very developed and has a higher density and multi-disciplinary activity of shaping and managing the urban environment. It consists of mostly manmade structures such as houses, commercial buildings, roads, bridges, and railways. The design of an urban area is about making the connection between people and spaces. It is also the relationships between the different types of buildings, streets, squares, parks and other places. In contrast a suburban area refers to the suburbs of a metropolitan area. It can be a residential area or a mixed use area, existing as part of a city or urban area.

Today I will be comparing and contrasting two types of architecture. The first architecture is the cathedral called Saint-Maclou which is located in Rouen, France which was built by Pierre Robin during thee 1500-1514 ca, also this was a temple for that was created for roman catholic people to go and pray. The second architecture that we will be discussing is the temple Horyuji Kondo or the Golden Hall which is located in Ikaaruga, Japan. This architecture is from the Nara period; it was commissioned by Prince Shotoku and was built in 680 ca, also this temple was created for Buddhist people to pray.

The essay will examine the immediate context of the Villa Barbaro and explore it’s paradoxical relationship with the landscape. Analysis of the building will show that while it appears to be an open villa expanding onto the landscape there is a complexity of a more reserved nature than is initially perceived. While immediate interpretation see’s the villa as opening onto the landscape in a very open way, the interpretation offered by Peter Eisenman suggests a subtler layering of spaces which in the after reading makes the building appear more closed off and reserved. Whereby he contrasts this notion of openness suggesting that the relationship of the garden is defined by Barchesses. Whereas Wittkower suggests a more public front, whereby “The whole façade may be transformed into a temple front as was done at the villa Maser.” Clearly there is a tension between the public and private nature of the villa, further emphases by the main stairs and entrances being “divorced from the front façade.” (Kubelik)

Interconnectivity of infrastructure is the interrelationships of the built environment. On the onset, it is important to erect the case for interconnectivity basing the argument on the assumption that that connectivity cannot take place wholesomely on the system. The responsibility that leaders have been to mitigate the risks involved with erecting infrastructure. The idea of equitable allocation of the resource to the end of insurance is not enough because when the built environment breaks down many things that depend on it are lost. For instance occurrence of an earthquake that brings down infrastructure worth millions of dollars will not only hurt the economy but also many lives in the country will be affected directly and indirectly (Studer, 2008).

The movie “Office Space,” which was directed in 1999 by Mike Judge, examines and critiques the various organizational

As president of the National Association of Safety Regulators, Solomon Alvi, had booked a hotel stay for his convention. This was the hotels first convention in 30 years. What seem to be a pleasurable stay ended up to be a catastrophe!

The IoT’s job is becoming more vital in rendering access to devices and machines which existed manufacturing systems are hidden in well-designed storage towers (silos). This advancement can allow the IT further to come into the digitized manufacturing systems. The entire range of applications which can run around the production shall be connected to factory via the IoT. This would range from connecting the factory to the smart grid and sharing the production facility as a service. In this context, the production system would be though as one of the many IoTs. A new ecosystem for smarter and more efficient generation could be defined.

The use of IoT has already impacted the way cities operate. The term smart cities, is used to describe a city that possesses an IoT oriented infrastructure. “In a smart city, the digital technologies translate into better public services for inhabitants and better use of resources while reducing environmental impacts”. [3] For a smart city to be feasible, IoT must provide intelligence, interconnection, and instrumentation. Wi-Fi-enabled smart devices and low-cost sensors are components of the smart city and allow devices a way to communicate with the public via the internet. These devices collect real-time data, which not only improves the lives of residents, but transforms several sectors of public service as well. Transportation has been revolutionized by smart traffic management systems which gather data from an array of magnetic road sensors and hundreds of cameras. The result is less delay at major stop lights and increased travel speeds, because enabled drivers can see which lights are busy and monitor these areas for other vehicles and pedestrians. To lower traffic and driver search times for parking spots, parking sensors that detect parking-spaces for drivers are installed in major cities. Street lights use a method of energy saving known as adaptive lighting which enables them to determine their brightness setting, appropriate for a given situation. The smart city solution to conserving energy is through smart girds. A smart grid serves several energy management

Since the concept of smart grid was presented to our life, the word of smart is using on every products. The new technologies will invent by an each day, hour or even minute, and a life cycle of a new product continually decreases. Therefore, companies want fit into the new environment so that the “smart products” became a strong marketing strategy to let enterprises win in the business games. A smart product would be a smart strategy at the beginning time such as smart cloth, smart toy, smart phone, smart furniture, smart building, smart city and even smart society.

Finally, many tools were used to document our site visits that would used during the modeling of the buildings. As stated before, PlanGrid was very useful when viewing the construction sheets. PlanGrid was used on an iPad for easy access during the site visit. The iPad, as well as our phones, was used to take pictures of any notable changes or major features of the buildings. The pictures were used as references during the modeling portion of the project. A measuring tape was also used to take the dimensions of sections of the buildings that were not clearly labeled on the construction sheets. For example, the Architecture Annex’s terrance needed a measuring tape to measure its dimensions because the top-down view was absent from the