{"id":91087,"date":"2019-05-21T15:03:25","date_gmt":"2019-05-21T22:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/atom-power-is-launching-the-era-of-digital-circuit-breakers"},"modified":"2019-05-21T15:03:25","modified_gmt":"2019-05-21T22:03:25","slug":"atom-power-is-launching-the-era-of-digital-circuit-breakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/atom-power-is-launching-the-era-of-digital-circuit-breakers","title":{"rendered":"Atom Power Is Launching the Era of Digital Circuit Breakers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/atom-power-is-launching-the-era-of-digital-circuit-breakers2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the dark, dank depths of your home basement hangs a drab gray box that guards the building\u2019s electrical circuits. The circuit breakers inside switch off current flow when there is risk of an overload or short circuit, keeping you safe from fires or electrocution. It\u2019s a critical job, and one that breakers have been doing with a fairly simple, 140-year-old electromechanical technology.<\/p>\n<p>But circuit breakers are about to get a digital overhaul. New semiconductor breakers that combine computing power and wireless connectivity could become the hub of smart, energy-efficient buildings of the future.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s like going from a telephone that just makes calls to a smartphone with capabilities we\u2019d never imagined before,\u201d says Ryan Kennedy, CEO and co-founder of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atompower.com\/\">Atom Power<\/a> in Charlotte, North Carolina. \u201cThis is a platform that changes everything in power systems.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/spectrum.ieee.org\/energywise\/energy\/the-smarter-grid\/atom-power-is-launching-the-era-of-digital-circuit-breakers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the dark, dank depths of your home basement hangs a drab gray box that guards the building\u2019s electrical circuits. The circuit breakers inside switch off current flow when there is risk of an overload or short circuit, keeping you safe from fires or electrocution. It\u2019s a critical job, and one that breakers have been [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1512,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-mobile-phones","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91087\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}