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New Power-Grid Authentication and Encryption Technology by MerlinCryption Secures Industrial-Control Systems Against Tampering and Espionage
As top U.S. Intelligence officials debate concerns about growing vulnerabilities of America’s power-grid and advanced metering infrastructure (AMI), MerlinM2M delivers encrypted authentication protection for energy providers and end-users. “Having a good firewall still leaves the smart-grid at risk,” warns Paul “Prem” Sobel, CTO MerlinCryption LLC, “Cloners can defraud IP addresses and other protocol methods to force a system shutdown and infiltration. The MerlinM2M Security Platform’s triple-layer security process not [...]
Public Cellular Service Revenue for Smart Grid Will Reach $1 Billion by 2020
According to a recent report from Pike Research, global annual service revenue from public cellular network nodes in smart grid applications will surpass $1 billion by 2020, representing a 27% compound annual growth rate (CAGR) from 2011 to 2020. A cumulative total of 73 million cellular M2M communication nodes will be shipped for use in smart grid applications during the period from 2011 through 2020, the cleantech market intelligence firm finds. Electric, gas, and water utilities have long [...]
Wireless Smart Utility Network Alliance Formed
A group of companies announced the creation of an alliance to support certification and promotion of an interconnect standard for wireless smart grid devices to better communicate from remote locations and with home appliances. Today, a group of major companies involved in smart utility network products and technology announced the creation of the Wireless Smart Utility Network (Wi-SUN) Alliance to support certification and promotion of an interconnect standard for wireless smart grid devices to better communicate from remote locations [...]
Iberdrola contracts for one million smart meters for projects in Spain
Spanish utility Iberdrola has awarded seven companies contracts with a total value of €300 million to supply one million meters with remote management capabilities, to advance its smart grid projects in Spain. The companies are ZIV, Landis&Gyr, Sagemcom, Sogecam, Orbis, Elster and GE. The meters are based on the PRIME powerline communication standard. The project forms part of the STAR (Sistema de Telegestión y Automatización de Red/Remote Grid Management and Automation System) project, which will see some €2 billion [...]
Worldwide smart meter shipments to surpass 140 million units annually by 2016
Worldwide smart meter shipments in the fourth quarter of 2011 grew 11.8 percent over the previous quarter and were up 23.8 percent when compared to the fourth quarter of 2010, according to IDC Energy Insights' Worldwide Quarterly Smart Meter Tracker. In the accompanying forecast, annual smart meter shipments are projected to surpass 140 million units worldwide by 2016, up from 25.4 million in 2011. This represents a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 32.9 percent over the 2011 to 2016 period. The revival of the Canadian market [...]
DN2K Receives Significant Funding for Advanced Remote Monitoring, M2M and Management Systems
Investment Funds Further Product Development and Expansion into New Industrial Markets DN2K (www.dn2k.com), developers of advanced remote monitoring, machine-to-machine (M2M) and management systems, today announced that it has received significant funding from a group of private investors to help with growth and expansion into global oil and gas, agriculture, smart grid and electric power industries. The $1.5 million dollar first round investment comes from a group of North American investors that make investments into SCADA, Smart Grid, [...]
Europe to experience five-fold growth in installed base of smart meters by 2017
Smart meter revenue in Europe is expected to grow from $318.4 million in 2010 to $1.93 billion in 2017 at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 29.3 percent, according to a new analysis from Frost & Sullivan. The smart meter installed base in Europe is expected to grow from 43.9 million in 2010 to 200.43 million in 2017 at a CAGR of 24.2 percent. Larger growth is foreseen post-2012, with the publishing of the standardization mandate, which will affect the future development and innovation of smart meters. Europe is a push [...]
TI unveils ZigBee Smart Energy 2.0 SoC
The SE2.0 SoC has an integrated ARM Cortex-M3 processor, memory, and 802.15.4g radio and is tailored for Smart Grid and remote sensor applications. Texas Instruments Inc. (TI) (NASDAQ: TXN), the leader in highly integrated wireless connectivity solutions, announced the industry's first demonstration of a radio frequency (RF) system-on-chip (SoC) that integrates an IEEE 802.15.4 (2.4 GHz) radio, an ARM Cortex-M3 processor, dedicated Smart Energy (SE) 2.0 hardware security acceleration, and enough flash and RAM to run the ZigBee IP [...]
Pacific Controls Acquires Infotility Inc., to Become the World Leader in Intelligent Software Agents for the Smart Grid
Pacific Control Systems, the leading provider of cloud computing services for energy management, today announced the completion of its strategic acquisition of Infotility, a pioneer of Grid Agents. The acquisition brings together two pioneers of using intelligent software agents, known as 'bots', to control and manage engineering systems. It will create a unique capability to deliver Smart Grid services in real time on a unified platform, one that has been long awaited in the industry. Pacific Controls is the world's leading [...]
Sprint M2M to Boost Utility Industry Operations; Make Systems Smarter
Itron, Lanner, Power Insight and Silver Spring offer Sprint connectivity to utilities for automated monitoring and data collection Electric and water utilities are changing the way they operate, investing in automation and wireless communications to make their distribution and management systems smarter. Sprint (NYSE: S) is playing a key role by providing the wireless infrastructure and collaborating with innovative companies that specialize in enhancing reliability, optimizing service delivery and [...]
