BROWSING: smart grid

The utilities offer smart grid services in the Colorado, Kansas and Washington Honeywell said it will provide three power providers in the U.S. with managed smart grid services as a way to more simply manage very technical smart grid networks, and enable improved electricity service and...

The smart meters are being provided by Swiss firm Landis+Gyr Landis+Gyr, a Swiss firm which specializes in smart meters and smart grids solutions, said that the grid modernization project underway at Tokyo Electric Power (TEPCO) has surpassed 10 million advanced meters and devices installed. "Our deployment...

The eLTE smart grid solution is already commercially available in China Chinese vendor Huawei has released its wireless smart grid solution, dubbed the eLTE SmartGrid. The vendor said its new eLTE SmartGrid solution applies advanced 4.5G cellular wireless communication technology in the electric power industry to...

Deep dive: The Internet of Energy: utilizing IoT technology to address risks and create a truly smarter grid Andres Carvallo, CEO & Founder, CMG, Co-author “The Advanced Smart Grid”, Series Editor, Power Engineering – Artech House, Board Director, Smart Grid Interoperability Panel Colman Keane - Director...

New wireless router for field area networks for smart grid, smart city and other IoT applications. Digital transformation is driving change in nearly all enterprise and industrial verticals including for power utilities, which are using internet of things devices to create smart grid infrastructure using...

German power distributor Stromnetz Berlin is also part of the 5G trials. Deutsche Telekom, Ericsson and distribution network operator Stromnetz Berlin are testing the impact of “5G” technologies on the energy sector. The companies set up a field test in Adlershof, Germany, and...

Despite the proliferation of endpoints, only a third of enterprises have an endpoint protection strategy, a new survey reveals. The number and nature of critical endpoints in enterprise networks is evolving as employee-owned devices, virtual machines, point-of-sale terminals, Internet of Things (IoT) devices and servers...

By signing the “Montevideo Declaration”, policy makers from around the world made smart cities a core element in reaching the U.N.’s sustainable development goals. With 70 percent of the world population expected to be living in cities by 2050, smart cities are increasingly seen as...

Drones are a capitivating IoT example According to a report from retail research firm NPD group, sales of drones have more than tripled over the last year, reaching around $200 million in sales. The increasing interest in using these aerial devices is one of the best illustrations...

Aruba's sole supplier of electricity turns to RPMA N.V. Elmar (or, in Dutch, Naamloze Vennootschap Electriciteit-Maatschappij Aruba), the sole provider of electricity to Aruba, turned to Ingenu to help deploy an RPMA-based network capable of creating a smart grid across the entire island. The grid was built...

Sony and Tepco could start bringing smart home services to millions of Japanese households as soon as next year. Sony Mobile Communications and power company Tokyo Electric Power Co. Holdings (Tepco) said both companies are looking into offering joint smart home services starting next year....

A new development kit launched by LoRa Alliance members Libelium and Loriot promises faster LoRa-based IoT app prototyping and testing. Semtech announced the availability of a new development kit delivered by LoRa Alliance members Libelium and Loriot, which will enable faster LoRa-based IoT app prototyping...

Energy management use cases Our current energy management systems are inadequate. Atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases are estimated to reach almost 685 parts per million (ppm) by 2050, well above the concentration level of 450 ppm required to have at least a 50% chance of...

Samsung and Nestlé announced the two companies are to collaborate on a new IoT health platform designed to advance digital health. As the market for Internet of Things (IoT) starts maturing, an increasing number of collaborations between technology vendors and industrial actors across multiple vertical...

The smart city market is set for explosive growth, but ongoing smart city deployments may be missing the mark. Despite a rapid increase in smart city deployments around the globe, few projects are at scale and financially sound. Furthermore, many smart city solutions deployments fail...

Industrial Internet Consortium member organizations Real-Time Innovations (RTI), National Instruments and Cisco are currently working on a communications and control testbed for microgrid applications. These three companies are working with power utilities CPS Energy and Southern California Edison in the initiative. A traditional power grid...

Internet pioneer talks smart grid, IoT and artificial intelligence Austin, Texas – Prior to this week's 2016 Energy Thought Summit, Google Chief Internet Evangelist Vint Cerf previews key topics including smart grid technologies and artificial intelligence. Cerf is set to participate in ETS16 via a Google...

This week on IoT Innovation, RCR Wireless News takes a look at Horizon 2020 IoT and 5G, the European Union's €80 billion plan to drive job and economic growth while keeping the EU competitive globally IoT Innovation is sponsored by Anritsu and Telecomcareers, a leading...

National League of Cities finds that U.S. metros aren’t taking into account transportation innovations Smart cities technology, a subset of the "Internet of Things," is making morning commutes, finding a parking spot and arranging public transit, among other things, an easy-to-use process driven by mobile...

CHICAGO – Cisco Systems tackled head on the notion that some aspects of the much-hyped “Internet of Things” were indeed over-hyped, hosting a panel session at this week’s Internet of Things World Forum asking if the “smart grid bubble” was more hype or hope. The...