BROWSING: Energy

The city of Cardiff in the UK has started a tender process to procure a lighting supplier for the £4.5 million upgrade of 23,750 residential streetlights in the city with LED bulbs and smart controls. The move follows completion of a residential pilot in the...

The city of Stockholm in Sweden is to deploy a software platform from Itron to manage its streetlights, according to the US-based industrial networking company. Itron has signed a contract with Stockholm to deploy its Streetlight.Vision (SLV) platform. SLV delivers asset management, analytics and control...

  Honeywell has announced the launch of its new Forge Energy Optimization, a cloud-based, machine learning solution for smart buildings. The solution "continuously studies a building?s energy consumption patterns" and automatically adjusts to optimal energy saving settings without compromising occupant comfort levels, the company said in...

US-based industrial networking company Itron has signed with local electricity provider Borås Elnät in Sweden to swap-in 46,000 smart electric meters and layer-in sensors and analytics across its grid infrastructure. Borås Elnät operates in the city of Borås in Västra Götaland County, in Sweden. Itron...

  German company Bosch has consolidated its activities centered on the Internet of Things (IoT) into a new subsidiary. With some 900 associates, Bosch.IO covers a wide range of IoT services including consulting, implementation and operation. “With Bosch.IO, we are strengthening our position as a leading IoT...

  Semtech Corporation announced that NetOP, a developer and manufacturer of LPWAN-based IoT applications, has developed a new smart energy consumption monitoring solution based on Semtech’s LoRa devices and the LoRaWAN protocol. The solution, named the “Octopus,” leverages LoRa devices’ advantages for real-time data monitoring to detect abnormal spikes...

By 2025, 5G connections should cover 40 per cent of Europe’s workforce, 70 per cent of its industrial sites, and 80 per cent of its main logistics routes. This was the message from DigitalEurope, the trade association for the European tech industry, at the...

OSIsoft has reworked its PI System for the energy sector to plug-in, process, and manage data streaming from distributed energy resources. It has picked up a couple of new contracts, as well. The company said the new architecture supports a “community system of data”, enabling...

Brazilian telecoms regulator Anatel has approved local energy distributor Neoenergia to operate a private LTE network in the 3.5 GHz frequency. It will be the first private LTE network in Brazil, and the first for smart electric grids in Latin America. Finnish vendor Nokia secured...

  Industrial IoT firm Seeq raises $24 million from equity sale Seattle-based industrial analytics company Seeq has raised $24 million from investors, according to a report in Computer Reseller News. Seeq has sold $24.3 million of equity to an unnamed investor group, according to the report, which...

  The installed base of smart street lights is forecasted to surpass 31.2 million at a global level by 2013, according to a new research report from the IoT analyst firm Berg Insight. The Swedish firm said that the installed base of smart street lights was...

  Itai Dadon, director of smart cities and IoT, Itron: 1. The finance industry takes an interest “Cities continue to grow at a fast pace; at the same time, they are learning fast and their strategy around digital transformation is maturing, which is generating a lot of...

  German giant Siemens said it is working to develop an integrated digital solution to help the world-famous Halle orchestra, based in Manchester, U.K., cut its costs by 35% through energy reduction. Siemens? integrated digital solution will aim to make Halle St. Peter?s, the historic recording...

Fingrid, Finland’s national transmission system operator, has appointed Nokia to build an IP/MPLS network to support the digital transformation of its national electrical grid.  Fingrid will use the network to operate 120 high-voltage substations and control 14,600 kilometres of power transmission across the country. The...

Japanese utility firm Nippon Gas (NICIGAS) announced plans to upgrade 850,000 gas meters with smart capabilities in 2020 using a retrofitted gas meter reader developed by UnaBiz and Soracom, the latter said in a statement. IoT connectivity provider Soracom highlighted that Space Hotaru, an...

Oracle is expanding its Chicago Innovation Lab, which would allow more organizations to explore new technologies and strategies to bolster their digital transformation efforts, the firm said in a release. Since its launch last year, the Lab has helped construction organizations explore and test solutions...

Nokia has deployed private LTE networks with more than 120 customers across multiple industries and geographies, it has revealed.  The Finnish vendor said it had deployed almost two in five (37 per cent), on average, of its total private wireless networks in Europe, followed by...

IoT system provider Itron has signed a deal with Rocky Mountain Power to deploy new smart meters and smart grid capabilities. The electric company, serving customers in Idaho, Utah, and Wyoming, will get a real-time read on grid devices and operations, said Itron.  Rocky Mountain...

  Global energy firm ENGIE and enterprise artificial intelligence software company C3.ai are partnering to launch?Smart Institutions?, an AI-powered, energy-as-a-service software solution for universities, municipalities, corporate campuses and hospitals. Designed by C3.ai and ENGIE Digital, the group?s software entity, ?Smart Institutions? enables organizations to automatically manage...

  The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) announced best-practice standards aimed at supporting more resilient and energy efficient buildings across the state. The release of the NYStretch Energy Code ? 2020 toolkit will aid municipalities interested in voluntarily adopting higher efficiency standards...

Note, this is continued from a previous article, called: ‘Greta dislikes you, but we like Greta’ – Sandvik on industrial revolution and the smartest little tool-house in Sweden. Go here to read the first instalment. The smartest factory in Sweden is a couple of...

The Italian smart port of Livorno in Italy is to showcase how buzzword industrial tech like 5G, AI, and IoT can help enterprises, municipalities and governments to bring forward environmental improvements to meet the United Nations’ ‘sustainable development goals’ (SDGs). The SDGs were set out...

Digital twins of smart cities will number 500 by 2025, from a handful today, according to ABI Research. The concept of digital twins will start move from smart factories, where spatial modelling is starting to be used to show the interplay between physical environments...

“The world is changing, and changing extremely fast,” explains Swedish manufacturer Sandvik at PI World 2019 in Gothenburg this week. The firm, a ‘lighthouse’ smart manufacturer for the World Economic Forum, says industrialists must drive digital change in order to save the planet.   During a...