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Biometric Tracking for Driver Monitoring

Driver Monitoring: Enhancing Safety with Comprehensive Monitoring and AI Driver Monitoring: According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration in the United States, human error is the cause for 94% of serious accidents. Furthermore, according to the association for safe international road travel, approximately 1.3 million people die in road crashes each year. Accidents represent …

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Cyber Security – Key to Robust Integration of Distributed Energy Resources

Introduction Cyber Security: Today, many startups and companies are developing robust and integrated cybersecurity solutions in line with distributed energy resources. While advanced cybersecurity solutions for energy utilities indicate an optimistic future, the consistent penetration across distributed energy resources is bound to increase devices controlled and owned by consumers. Moreover, these devices rely on digital …

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Challenges faced in power-to-heat sector coupling and how to optimize them

Optimizing Power-to-Heat Sector Coupling Challenges faced in power-to-heat sector : In many scenarios within centralized power sectors, such as the waste of excess energy from data centers’ processor heat, high-temperature steam from thermal power plants, the waste stream of biofuels, heating of batteries, and other high energy density materials occurs. One possibility to reutilize this …

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Cybersecurity in the MaaS Ecosystem

The Transformation of the Automotive Sector Cybersecurity in the MaaS Ecosystem: The automotive sector is going through an unprecedented radical transformation involving digitalisation, the Internet of Things (IoT), urbanisation, and autonomous technology. These technological trends are completely disrupting business models and reshaping this sector. There are currently three interconnected processes: 1.) New servicing options are …

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Wind Power Forecasting - WhatNext

AI-based wind power forecasting and its impact on maintenance scheduling optimization

Wind Power Forecasting As the world shifts towards renewable energy sources, wind power has emerged as a leading player in the race to reduce our reliance on fossil fuels. With the global wind power capacity reaching 664 gigawatts (GW) in 2020, the wind industry has seen unprecedented growth in the last few decades. Wind turbines …

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Direct Air Capture - WhatNext

Focus areas for the development and commercial deployment of Direct Air Capture (DAC)

Direct Air Capture Policy support and increased investment are critical to boosting the deployment of Direct Air Capture (DAC) over the next decade. This support should target the opportunity to reduce the costs of DAC, refine Direct Air Capture technologies, and boost global understanding of the technical and economic potential of DAC to support net-zero …

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A Comparison of Solar Roadways to Conventional Asphalt Roads

Solar Roadways to Conventional Asphalt Roads – Air pollution, which experts consider one of the most significant environmental health risks, causes approximately 4.2 million deaths worldwide each year due to serious illnesses. Mobility and transportation, particularly vehicles on the road, contribute significantly to these statistics by accounting for 8 million metric tonnes of CO2 emissions …

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Proton reduction for hydrogen production in artificial photosynthesis

Hydrogen production in artificial photosynthesis In recent years, many studies have reported various heterogeneous and homogeneous molecular systems for hydrogen evolution based on transition metal complexes.  Many of these systems that sometimes exhibit high turnover (TON) and efficiency for hydrogen production only operate in organic or aqueous-organic media (5-50% H2O). Moreover, molecular systems working in pure …

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Petroleum Bioremediation - WhatNext

Comparing laccases with oxygenases and hydrolases for petroleum bioremediation

Enzymatic Bioremediation of Petroleum Petroleum Bioremediation – Employing microorganisms in bioremediation has been a common practice for the past few years. However, relying solely on microorganisms for the degradation procePetroleum bioremediation is an environmentally friendly process that involves the use of microorganisms and enzymes to degrade and remove hydrocarbons from contaminated sites.ss may not be …

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