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IET Smart Grids and Smart Metering Lecture

19 January 2012

Dr Dritan Kaleshi will be giving a IET Bristol Local Network lecture on the 6th February 2012 at 18:00hrs.  In the lecture he discusses how the proposed UK Smart Metering system will support active energy management to help make the way we use energy become more efficient, and explore how the system might interact with a Smart Grid.

Enhancing a trip to the Zoo

5 December 2011

Researchers at the Centre for Communications Research are working on a new range of wireless and video technologies that will radically enhance future trips to the zoo.

Transmitting data from under the earth's ice sheets

6 September 2011

The Cryo-egg project, a collaborative research project between the Centre for Communications Research, Mechanical Engineering, Geography and Earth Sciences, is developing a means of transmitting data from under the earth's ice sheets. As part of this project, Dr Ben Lishman and the University of Bristol team ran field experiments on the Greenland ice sheet during August 2011, looking at signal propagation from radio transmitters lowered into holes in the ice sheet.