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Radio Ham develops Smart Grid systemThe New York Times reports that Radio Amateur Michael Legatt KB2PMD has developed a Smart Grid power management system. The newspaper says: Michael Legatt a graduate student and amateur ham radio operator in White Plains, N.Y., spent the aftermath of the blackout working with emergency responders who grappled with communications breakdowns across the New York area. It changed his life plan. Legatt made it his mission "to prevent this kind of thing from happening again," he said. Today, Legatt, a Ph.D. specialist in human-computer interactions, has developed the "Macomber Map," a new monitoring and visualization system for control room operators at the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, or ERCOT, based in Austin, which manages the power grid in most of the state. Read the full New York Times story at
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