swarm logic

Demand Response: Enernoc Applies Social Media Tech to the Power Grid
Victoria Riess
Planet Forward
Social networks have the power to link cultures across continents. See how energy demand response companies, such as Enernoc, wired their networks to fend off this summer's heat waves, which scorched communities from New York to Texas.WATCH!
Use swarm logic to manage the diversity of loads in a building, thereby smoothing demand and reducing peaks
Mark Kerbel, REGEN Energy
Bees function with precious little information exchanged between each other, and very small "instruction sets" encoded in their brains -- no master bee shouts out orders in a command & control fashion, yet the hive thrives even as bees come and... Read More