BROWSING: smart grid

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...

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, seamless solutions and working with customers to drive carbon out of our system," said Maria Pope, president and CEO...

Note, this article is serialised from a broad-ranging report on the statre of the smart energy market. It continues from a previous post, entitled 'Why the home is the heart of the new energy internet'. Go here for the last post; go here for...

Smart 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 the meter. They are, in a sense, the gateway devices for these concepts of...

One 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 referenced these as key disciplines – as the real art of digital change, in...

The 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 of electrical power was 10,000 TWh in 1990 and 25,000 TWh in 2017, and will...

The 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 the electricity grid should be integrated on a ‘plug-and-play’ basis. This creates an integrated...

New 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 to manage technical smart grid networks more easily, and enable improved electricity service and...

  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 Energy plan, which includes more than 2,000 electric projects over the next five years that will modernize the...

  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...

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...

Nokia has been selected by Brazilian elelctricity distributor Elektro to deploy a private LTE network to power its smart grid, smart meters, and electric vehicles in the municipality of Atibaia, in the state of Sao Paulo in southeast Brazil. The ‘smart grid’ project will streamline...

  Nearly 20,000 customers will trial smart-home technologies including thermostats and water heaters   Portland General Electric has announced plans to file a proposal to carry out a smart grid test bed during 2019. PGE is currently building and testing three smart grids within its service area that...

There was a time that physical attacks by one country on another occurred only during open war. In the past few decades, however, cyber attacks on critical infrastructure continue to increase in number and sophistication. The main threats come from nation states and criminal...

Editor’s Note: RCR Wireless News goes all in for “Throwback Thursdays,” tapping into our archives to resuscitate the top headlines from the past. Fire up the time machine, put on the sepia-tinted shades, set the date for #TBT and enjoy the memories! One is the...

Private, licensed networks needed to support mission critical IoT security, Full Spectrum CEO says While initial 5G deployments are focused on enhanced mobile broadband, the two other primary 5G use cases speak to enablement of massive internet of things (IoT) deployments and ultra-reliable, low-latency communications...

For years, 2G and 3G networks have provided businesses with appropriate connectivity — and ROI — for IoT applications. However, the cellular connectivity landscape is changing, as 2G and 3G will be phased out in favor of LTE technologies in the coming years. We...

The value of the smart cities market will pass $2 trillion by 2025 as artificial intelligence (AI) technologies become standardised in city functions and the final hurdle of inter-departmental integration is finally overcome, according to new research by Frost & Sullivan. Different regions are putting...

The U.K. government plans to kick off a 5G spectrum auction on March 20 The implementation of 5G technologies will enable cities in the U.K. to generate annual savings of £6 billion ($8.36 billion), according to a recent study by U.K mobile operator O2. The report...

Learn how KCP&L is working with Nokia on a smart grid project as part of a more broad smart city development A smart city in many ways is the ultimate exercise in the internet of things in that it involves a huge variety of projects...

Volta currently has smart grid electric vehicle charging stations in San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego, Phoenix, Honolulu and Chicago. Volta has teamed with eMotorWerks to incorporate the latter's smart charging technology throughout its nationwide network of smart grid stations. By using eMotorWerks hardware and software...

Under the deal, the utility will add Sensus’s FlexNet solution to create a smart grid for power and natural gas in Iowa Power company Alliant Energy Corp. has signed an agreement with Sensus to add the latter’s FlexNet communication system to Alliant Energy’s power and...

The global spending on the internet of things (IoT) is forecasted to grow 16.7% year-over-year in 2017 By 2021, global internet of things spending is expected to total nearly $1.4 trillion as organizations continue to invest in the hardware, software, services, and connectivity that enable...

The global spending on the internet of things (IoT) is forecasted to grow 16.7% year-over-year in 2017 By 2021, global internet of things spending is expected to total nearly $1.4 trillion as organizations continue to invest in the hardware, software, services, and connectivity that enable...