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Itron to deploy IIoT network in Australia to support smart lighting solutions

U.S. firm Itron, a technology company that specializes in products and services for energy and water resource management, VINCI Energies’ Electrix and Transport Canberra and City Services (TCCS) are working to create an industrial internet of things (IIoT) network to support smart lighting and...

Revenue from smart street lights to hit $1.7bn by 2026, surge 31% per year

Annual revenue from smart street lights will grow at compound annual rate of 31 per cent to reach $1.7 billion in 2026, reckons ABI Research. The analyst house said street lighting programmes will continue to focus on replacing conventional lamps with LED lamps through...

Lubbock plays catch-up with smart meters, to advance with smart city apps

Itron has signed with Lubbock Power & Light (LP&L) to deploy smart electricity meters and management software to improve service for around 107,000 electricity customers in Texas. The move will bring LP&L up to speed with most other utilities in the state. The new equipment...

Itron gets Tampa gig to smarten up 260,000 new LED street lights

Itron has signed a contract with the Tampa Electric Company to connect and make ‘smart’ new LED street lights in the West Central Florida district. Tampa Electric will install more than 260,000 Itron smart photocells in the next five years, according to Itron. The new...

Itron starts certifying Wi-SUN devices for smart cities, utilities, factories

Liberty Lake IoT provider Itron has started to certify devices under the Wi-SUN Field Area Network (FAN) 1.0 programme. It follows fellow Wi-SUN leader Cisco to have its products passed by the Wi-SUN Alliance. Itron said its Bridge 5-WS product was the first to gain...

Itron, ComEd implement smart lighting initiative in Chicago

  The project stipulates the connection of 140,000 municipal smart streetlights in Chicago and northern Illinois   U.S. firm Itron, together with power company ComEd have a new initiative aimed at modernizing municipal lighting and driving smart city development in northern Illinois. ComEd serves more than 4 million...

Itron to deploy IoT solution for water utility in Texas

  Through a deal with the city of Waco, the local utility will install 45,000 modules and 12,000 leak sensors   Itron has signed a contract with the city of Waco, Texas to install Itron’s OpenWay Riva IoT solution, including smart water communication modules and leak sensors. Itron...

The biggest smart street-lighting deployments in the world – a rough guide (updated 12/18)

Back in August, Enterprise IoT Insights published a list of the biggest smart street-lighting deployments. It was an imperfect list, then, we acknowledged, and likely to be an iterative exercise – to be updated as new information comes to light, and new cities limber...

Itron secures two IoT contracts in Latin America

  The U.S. firm will deploy its solutions for a Brazilian utility and four Costa Rican electricity cooperatives   U.S. firm Itron said Brazilian utility Elektro will deploy its Gen5 network to enable energy efficiency in three cities in the state of Sao Paulo. The Brazilian utility will...

Cities should focus first on what works, says Itron, as it kicks off smart-city challenge

Cities should focus on what works, and hurry up, if they are to bring intelligence to their operations, Liberty Lake IoT provider Itron told Enterprise IoT Insights. The company has just kicked off a smart city challenge in the UK, focused on the cities of...

Smart cities Q&A | Five key questions for five tech providers: Which smart city apps provide the surest ROI? (3/5)

Ahead of the release on November 5 of a major report by Enterprise IoT Insights into the state of the smart city market, entitled How to buy / sell a smart city – procurement models to make every city smart, we present five burning questions...

Smart cities Q&A | Five key questions for five tech providers: What’s so good about PPP? (2/5)

Ahead of the release on November 5 of a major report by Enterprise IoT Insights into the state of the smart city market, entitled How to buy / sell a smart city – procurement models to make every city smart, we present five burning questions...

Cisco starts certifying Wi-SUN industrial routers for smart grids, cities, factories

Cisco has started certifying a number of its industrial routers for smart grids, smart cities, and smart manufacturing under new Wi-SUN standards, as the San Jose based outfit throws its weight behind the Wi-SUN Alliance’s field area networks (FAN) certification programme. Wi-SUN, based on open...

All about Wi-SUN, and the quiet buzz around the ‘world’s widest’ IoT network

Wi-SUN has been quietly succeeding in the smart utilities and smart cities markets as an alternative for low-power wide-area (LPWA) networking like LoRa and Sigfox. The open ‘wireless smart utility network’ (Wi-SUN) mesh protocol is based on the IEEE 802.15.4g SUN standard, approved in March...

Smart cities Q&A | Five key questions for five tech providers: How hard is it to fund smart cities? (1/5)

Ahead of the release on November 5 of a major report by Enterprise IoT Insights into the state of the smart city market, entitled How to buy / sell a smart city - procurement models to make every city smart, we five burning questions for...

Itron handed upgrade of NV Energy’s demand response management system

Nevada-based NV Energy has upgraded its demand response management system for improved load management capabilities and enhanced cybersecurity. Smart-city tech provider has handled the software in the modernisation project, which migrated the Nevada utility from its legacy Comverge load management system to its own cloud-based...

Itron on track to fully integrate Silver Spring Networks business, says CEO

Itron said it is seeing a high level of interest from customers for the firm’s new smart gas and water meters   U.S. firm Itron, which focuses on technology solutions for energy and water water resource management, is on track to complete the full integration of...

The top 10 smart street lighting vendors

LEDs are lighting up smart cities across the world, and staring to porvide a platform for even smarter sensors and technologies. Street lighting is now the default entry point for smart technologies into city environments. Navigant Research has evaluated 14 vendors in the street lighting...

Itron secures contract to deploy IoT-based system for a water utility in Texas

Itron said the deployment of sensors and software-as-a-service will allow the city of Pearland to improve delivery of water to the city’s 120,000 customers   U.S. firm Itron, a technology company that specializes in products and services for energy and water resource management, will install its...

Itron launches intelligent gas meter solution

Itron’s new offering will be commercially available in the last quarter of this year U.S. firm Itron, a technology company that specializes in products and services for energy and water resource management, has announced the launch of its new intelligent gas meter. The new offering, dubbed...