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  2. Kill A Watt - Wikipedia

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    Kill A Watt. This Kill A Watt model P4400 is displaying a current draw of 10.27 Amperes in this mode. The Kill A Watt (a pun on kilowatt) is an electricity usage monitor manufactured by Prodigit Electronics and sold by P3 International. It measures the energy used by devices plugged directly into the meter, as opposed to in-home energy use ...

  3. Speedtest.net - Wikipedia

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    Speedtest. Speedtest.net, also known as Speedtest by Ookla, is a web service that provides free analysis of Internet access performance metrics, such as connection data rate and latency. It is the flagship product of Ookla, a web testing and network diagnostics company founded in 2006, and based in Seattle, Washington, United States. [5] [6]

  4. Software metering - Wikipedia

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    Real-time monitoring of all (or selected) applications running on the computers within the organization in order to detect unregistered or unlicensed software and prevent their execution, or limit their execution to within certain hours. The system administrator can configure the software metering agent on each computer in the organization.

  5. Automatic meter reading - Wikipedia

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    The meter communicates to its collection point using 900 MHz mesh network topology. Automatic meter reading ( AMR) is the technology of automatically collecting consumption, diagnostic, and status data from water meter or energy metering devices (gas, electric) and transferring that data to a central database for billing, troubleshooting, and ...

  6. Performance per watt - Wikipedia

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    Performance per watt. In computing, performance per watt is a measure of the energy efficiency of a particular computer architecture or computer hardware. Literally, it measures the rate of computation that can be delivered by a computer for every watt of power consumed. This rate is typically measured by performance on the LINPACK benchmark ...

  7. Graphics Device Interface - Wikipedia

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    The Graphics Device Interface in the architecture of Windows NT For example GDK makes use of GDI.. The Graphics Device Interface (GDI) is a legacy component of Microsoft Windows responsible for representing graphical objects and transmitting them to output devices such as monitors and printers.

  8. Personal digital assistant - Wikipedia

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    The Palm TX. A personal digital assistant ( PDA) is a multi-purpose mobile device which functions as a personal information manager. PDAs have been mostly displaced by the widespread adoption of highly capable smartphones, in particular those based on iOS and Android, and thus saw a rapid decline in use after 2007.

  9. Near-field communication - Wikipedia

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    Near-field communication ( NFC) is a set of communication protocols that enables communication between two electronic devices over a distance of 4 centimetres (1.6 in) or less. [1] NFC offers a low-speed connection through a simple setup that can be used for the bootstrapping of capable wireless connections. [2]