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Overview

Systems Thinking

Data

Startups To Watch

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Industry Analysis

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Industry Overview Water (pg. 3)

The positive in all this is that where there are immense challenges there

Strategic text and improvement of consumers lives. These issues will require policy updates industry info that recognize the changing nature of water availability, improvements in supported by graphics are also immense opportunities for businesses to create returns and for

advanced technology for the efficient and secure delivery of clean water

to a changing consumer base and the utilization of financial structures that might have otherwise not been implemented in the water utility industry.

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Irrigation and Water Use Thermoelectric Power use Black and Veatch Water 2013 Report Card For America’s Infrastructure

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Hawaii

Data  From  EIA

Visual displaying quantitative and qualitative information, simplifying knowledge acquisition and retention % Renewable Generated From Solar in 2015

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Hawaii Generated more energy from

35%

renewable energy than any other state in the US in 2015. The state continues to lead with aggressive

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Distributed and renewable energy goals

Targets

Residential Usage

On June 8, Hawaii updated legislation

At 506 kWh/month Hawaii residents

setting a 100% renewable portfolio

consume the least energy of all US

standard (RPS) by 2045. These targets are

citizens. Bigger parts of this consumption

aggressive but Hawaii is well on its way.

now come from renewable sources. (2014)

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Strategic Narrative:
 Digitization Trends (pg. 3)

George Koutitas through his company Gridmates is enabling any consumer to share energy with people in need in the same way we transfer money to friends/family through mobile phone banking apps. It's a simple premise but one that is truly disruptive to the current payment and billing technology stack of the power industry (which I've spoken about before). Gridmates and similar consumer facing products that borrow from user experiences that we are now used to from other industries will make a push into interactions between you and the utility. As is obvious from the list above, these technologies aren't new (even AR is not new) but they are new to the utility industry. These technologies are mature in their applications in other industries and, for those in the utility industry, this is an indication of their reliability. The utility requires robust, tried and tested products that

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will enable secure and stable delivery of power to you and I. That's always been the case and, regardless of how cool or trendy an applicable technology is, the utility is

Aging  Utility  Workforce

not about to change its criteria...

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AR  for  Maintenance Cheaper  LiDAR

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Technology Update Operational

Infrastructure Technology

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Consumer

Need: Assessment of industry need and possible solutions

Possible Solution: MITs Photonic

with emphasis on particular

miniaturization of LiDar systems to

AR  for  Maintenance

technological advancements.

move them from the bulky products on

Cheaper  LiDAR

Maintenance costs to assess ~25k acres of landmass,

embedding the new LiDar sensors on

Aging  Utility  Workforce

average for a small utility, is in the range of $87M for a 5yr maintenance cycle. Considering the squeeze on revenues there

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Microsystems Group is working on

top of large trucks to the possibility of drones cutting upwards of 50% on maintenance costs. Underlying Tech: LiDAR systems measure direction and how far away each pixel in a 3D space is from emitting

is need to find innovative ways

device,allowing for the creation of a full

to reduce these expenses.

3D model of the world around the sensor.

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Startups To Watch (and jobs): IoT Platforms

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Particle.io

Ayla Network

Electric Imp

Particle.io have developed an Internet of Things (IoT) platform and hardware to enable plug and play product development.

Cloud-based connectivity solutions targeted to manufacturers of appliances, HVAC to turn these into intelligent devices.

The oldest of the three, Electric Imp provides a secure IoT platform, connecting cloud services with the real world esp home devices.

Strategy: Ayla’s focuses on the enterprise/B2B sector; strategy is to enable the honeywell of the world to digitize their appliances.

Strategy: taking an ecosystem approach, Electric Imp is focused on helping companies develop a connectivity strategy with the ‘imp’ as the platform.

$4.3M raised from Collaborative Fund, Root Venture and O’Reilly Alphatech Ventures etc

$64M from Cisco Investments, Crosslink, Black River Ventures, Acorn Pacific Ventures etc

$44M from Foxconn, Lowercase Capital, Redpoint Ventures, Rampart Capital etc

https://jobs.lever.co/particle/

https://www.aylanetworks.com/ jobvite

https://electricimp.com/aboutus/ jobs/

Strategy: democratization of the IoT market becoming the utility Analysis of companiesinfrastructure layer. Ties into the the forefront of the topic trends of digitization and retail.

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Utility Digest Sample

Topics covered by the digest are highlighted Water Data and all the related issues Strategic Narratives

Issue X

ASHA

LABS