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Current and past projects include:

Ecma TC32-TG21 Network Proxy technical working group
ENERGY STAR Specification Development for products such as Computers, Set-Top-Boxes, DTAs and Monitors
Terra Novum has been involved in product specification development for ENERGY STAR products such as PCs, Notebooks, High-End Workstations, Set-Top-Boxes, Digital Television Adaptors and Monitors. Leveraging Terra Novum's expertise in energy efficiency and electronics, EPA has released or is in the process of releasing updated specifications for the above products.
ENERGY STAR Million Monitor Drive
The Million Monitor Drive is a project aimed at having business and home PC users enable monitor power management to increase energy efficiency and thereby increase air quality and decrease carbon emissions. As a subcontractor providing the computing expertise to the project, Terra Novum engineered alternative software solutions (leveraging existing infrastructure such as AD, NDS) to those suggested by Energy Star when it became clear that larger companies were not interested in the then current offerings. As a result of this, large companies began to adopt the technology and the projects goals went from 100,000 monitors addressed to 2 million monitors addressed. This contract has been extended through 2009 and Thomas Bolioli has developed a GPO tool (using C++) for companies leveraging MS Active Directory to save energy and money using PC power-management. Terra Novum is also responsible for providing no cost (funded by the EPA) technical support to companies including Fortune 500 network administrators who are deploying energy saving solutions enterprise wide.(Project Files )
Demographic analysis of land use in Rhode Island (HTML) (PDF)
Using age structure deviation analysis (a technique designed by Thomas Bolioli) and a decomposition of changes in population by age group, it was concluded that a significant portion of Rhode Island's problems with high levels of development is due to demographic effects. This study suggests programs designed to stop sprawl should focus on specific age groups in a population to create more tailored programs. It was also determined that suburban sprawl is intimately linked to population growth displaced in time by about 30-40 years.
Massachusetts Technology Collaborative's Massrenew Solar Renewables Initiative
Among other IT tasks related to the Production Tracking System, Terra Novum will be working with The Cadmus Group, the primary contractor, on designing a system (partly from commercially available components) for having automated meter reading (AMR) by a central server from renewables meters located across the state of Massachusetts. The key to the system was to not have the MTC provide/dictate all of the technical solution from meter to aggregator. Instead, Thomas Bolioli suggested using a mixed market/technical solution leveraging what market for AMR existed to provide as much of the technical support and have the MTC fill in the holes by developing open source software that can be freely used by any market actor in renewables AMR.
Brown University Center for Environmental Studies ArcIMS Internet Mapping Project Terra Novum designed and installed an Arc IMS solution for the Brown University Center for Environmental Studies where students and staff use the system to serve interactive GIS maps related to their research to the entire world. Part of the system is set up to do web based surveys in an easy to use fashion.
NYSERDA's Government Energy Efficiency Project (GEEP) for energy efficiency
Terra Novum was involved in a pilot project to bring the experience gained in it's involvement with EnergyStar's Million Monitor Drive to the government agencies in the State of New York. NYSERDA will be going ahead with a program based on the pilot that looks to expand energy efficiency in the computing world statewide. Terra Novum has been chosen to provide the technical expertise for the entire computing portion of this new contract.