<p>BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN: IBM announced yesterday a new research agreement with Universiti Brunei Darussalam (UBD) to explore smarter ways to conserve and consume energy in the country IBM said it will collaborate with UBD to better understand energy usage and supply in buildings to enable efficient allocation of resources and distribution of power, Borneo Bulletin reported.</p><p>IBM Said researchers will design smarter energy solutions liar homes, communities and grids in Brunei.</p><p>With the engagement, UBD and IBM intend to explore how a variety of long-term and dynamic factors affect energy consumption patterns. Long-term factors include building materials and the geometry of buildings while dynamic factors involve smart sensing and analytics, persuasive user-interfaces and incentives and dynamic energy ratings of appliances.</p><p>Based on analytics, algorithms for optimal real-time energy monitoring and storage management will be investigated to help make homes greener. In addition, the research will model load flow in Brunei's grid, and study phenomena like "power swing" that leads to blackouts, to enable the grid to be more reliable.</p><p><a href="http://www.theborneopost.com/2013/06/26/ubd-ibm-drive-smarter-energy-research-initiatives/">Keep reading...</a></p>