Portland General Electric launches smart grid test bed in Oregon
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemail Portland General Electric Company is launching its Smart Grid test bed in Oregon, the company said in a release. “We’re using our Smart Grid Test Bed to deliver simple, …
Making Industry Smarter: Energy & Power | The challenge of electric vehicles, load balancing and condition monitoring
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Making Industry Smarter: Energy & Power | Why the home is the heart of the new energy internet
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailSmart meters have provided a read-out on energy consumption and a window on energy usage. They have brought insight and control to the field of energy management, both sides of …
“Utilities don’t need AI yet – they just need better human access to data,” says OSIsoft
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailOne key element that was skirted around in Enterprise IoT Insights’ recent report on digital change in the power sector: the nitty-gritty of data analytics and artificial intelligence (AI). We …
Making Industry Smarter: Energy & Power | “Digital twins will enable energy transition,” says Siemens
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailThe only way the planet will hit sustainability targets is through comprehensive electrification and digitisation of the energy market, and of society at large, reckons German tech giant Siemens. Consumption …
The way to decarbonised, decentralised power: What is a smart grid anyway?
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailThe German Ministry of Economics and Technology (BMWi) has a good definition of ‘smart grids’, which needs no embellishment. “The basic idea is that each device which is connected to …
Energy management Q&A: “NB-IoT and AI are game-changers,” says Honeywell
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailNew Jersey-based Honeywell is a stalwart in smart energy systems, with focus particularly on industrial and enterprise solutions. It is proviidng managed smart grid services as a way for utilities …
Ameren Missouri launches smart energy plan
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemail As part of the $5.3 billion initiative, the company aims to add more than 800,000 smart electric meters through 2023 Utility provider Ameren Missouri announced the company’s Smart …
Itron secures two IoT contracts in Latin America
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemail 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 …
All about Wi-SUN, and the quiet buzz around the ‘world’s widest’ IoT network
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailWi-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 …
