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Saturday, January 22, 2011

Power & Energy Management

Several years ago no one would have believed that such an area as pedestrian a topic as power would ever be such a hot topic. In today’s energy dependent world the areas of alternative energy such as wind, solar, bio mass, fuel cells and hybrid combinations drive talk at the water cooler and Wall Street. Everyone is racing for solutions that can become deployed at a cost effective price. In order to field this type of solution set several types of technology need to be evaluated. They are a combination of hardware and software and can be both at the chip and board set level. Many papers and posts address this area. See: http://greenprofs.com/

This site focuses on all things GREEN especially companies and technologies to monitor.

I want to cite several groups I feel are pushing the envelope in various areas of the evolving “Green Revolution” They are for the most part small agile entrepreneurial teams focused on one of the above niche power areas.

Protonex http://www.protonex.com

Tactical Environmental Systems http://www.tacticalsys.com

Tesla Industries Inc http://www.teslaind.com

Lex Products http://www.lexproducts.com

CME http://www.custom-mfg-com

Diversified Technology http://www.diversifiedtechnology.com

Bren-Tronics Inc. http://www.bren-tronics.com

Optima Batteries http://www.optima.com

PATCO http://www.patcoelectronics.com

Several companies doing interesting things in the RTOS and embedded computing areas that support power efficient green oriented microcontoller designed products are:

http://www.rowebots.com/

http://www.arbor.com.tw/

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