What is the latest innovation HP is pursuing in the field of smart grids?
Everyone is talking about smart grids, I’d argue in many ways the system is pretty intelligent already. Where they can improve it is in granularity. Here we are developing our CeNSE (Central Nerve System for the Earth) technology. The idea of calling it CeNSE is to mimic the human senses, so you’ve got eyes, ears, nose, touch, and apply that to the grid. We have started a first project using CeNSE in cooperation with Shell. At the moment a sensor on a grid is a very expensive unit, costing about 2,000 dollars, If you could make a sensor for a few dollars, and pepper them out on the grid, then you’ve got much more granularity. That is what I think is going to be the next stage of the grid. We are talking to utilities in the US, Europe and in Japan about what can we use these sensors for. In Japan, for instance earthquakes are often followed by mudslides, which kill more people than earthquakes. If we put sensors on the wires, we would know when the earth starts to go. How is your smart
