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OnStream’s gas and electricity meters become even “smarter” thanks to a wireless solution from Telenor Connexion
OnStream’s innovative and wirelessly connected smart meters enable consumers to have more control over their energy consumption and supports the benefits of smart grids. OnStream, a National Grid company, provides gas and electricity metering solutions across the UK. The company’s new mobile communications-based meters enable low levels of power consumption and include the ability to communicate with smart appliances leading to the formation of the smart grid. Telenor Connexion, the world leader in premium M2M solutions for [...]
Worldwide installed base of smart electricity meters will reach 602.7 million units in 2016
New research from the analyst firm Berg Insight says that the worldwide installed base of smart electricity meters will grow at a compound annual growth rate of 26.6 percent between 2010 and 2016 to reach 602.7 million at the end of the period. During the next five years, penetration rates for smart metering technology are projected to increase from around 15–25 percent today to around 50 percent in Europe and North America and over 75 percent in Asia-Pacific. By 2020, penetration rates are expected to approach 100 percent in most [...]
Digi Enhances Siemens Smart Grid Metering Solution by Giving Customers Real-Time Utility Usage Information
Digi shows Siemens Meter Data live on Smartphone Application at Metering Europe 2011. Digi International (NASDAQ: DGII) today announced that Siemens AG is using Digi X-Grid™ Solutions to enhance its smart metering product with a web-based energy consumption and management platform for consumers. The Digi X-Grid is an “Extended Grid” that enables real-time, IP-based monitoring and control of home energy devices beyond the electric meter. Smart Siemens Automated Metering and [...]
Smart Grid Roundup: Home Networks, Smart Meters, and Telecoms Join the Fray
Energate thermostats, British Gas picks Elster for dual meters, and what’s a negamile? by Katherine Tweed, Greentech Media. Home energy management is touted by some as one of the revolutions enabled by smart grid. But who’s going to pay for all of this stuff? Well, Oklahoma Gas & Electric is going to pay for at least 40,000 smart thermostats from Energate to achieve 70 megawatts in peak load reduction from residential and small commercial customers. Utilities are starting to pay for these expensive devices up to a certain point [...]
Low-Cost Connectivity Electrifies the Smart Grid Industry
AT&T Offers Smart Meters with Pre-Paid Data Plans Directly to Utilities When electricity and wireless connectivity combine, utility providers can really power up their operations. Smart grids have re-energized the electric industry, spurring innovative methods for tracking energy usage, reducing costs and boosting efficiency. To help make the future even brighter for utilities, AT&T* is providing SmartSynch's suite of smart grid products along with AT&T wireless data services on a single, affordable bill. What's more, [...]
Verizon Wireless and Trilliant Deliver Next-Generation Public Network Smart Metering
Trilliant's CellReader® Compatible with the Verizon Wireless Network Verizon Wireless and Trilliant, a global Smart Grid communications leader in delivering solutions that enhance energy efficiency, utility operations and renewable resource integration, today announced that Trilliant's next-generation CellReader, the leading cellular wireless Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) solution for Commercial and Industrial (C&I) Utility metering, has been certified as compatible with the Verizon Wireless network. CellReader products [...]
Qualcomm Showcases Innovations in Cellular Communications for Smart Grid
Multimode Technology to Help Increase Reliability, Coverage and Lifetime of Smart Grid Deployments Utilizing Cellular Networks Qualcomm Incorporated will be showcasing innovations in cellular communications for Smart Grid deployments at GridWeek 2011, September 12-15, in Washington D.C. The exhibit will feature multiple vendor solutions with embedded Qualcomm cellular chipsets, covering a wide variety of Smart Energy devices including Distribution Automation Gateways, cellular-enabled Smart Meters, Home Energy Management Systems and [...]
Sprint, SmartLabs and Proliphix Make Energy Management Available to Businesses and Consumers
Companies reduce energy costs and enhance the overall effectiveness of the smart grid. Open networks, machine-to-machine (M2M) technology and collaboration make the grid smarter. Modernizing the nation's electric infrastructure will likely be a daunting task that will take utilities years to implement; however, there are proactive steps that businesses and homeowners can take today to more effectively manage energy consumption. With that in mind, Sprint (NYSE: S) is working with Proliphix and SmartLabs to [...]
UK Announces Smart Grid Communications Contracts Worth Up to $7.5B
The government of the United Kingdom is putting its money where its mouth is, announcing up to £4.59 ($7.49) billion in contracts to build a wide area network and data services to support smart meters. Smart meters are mandated to be in place in the U.K. by 2020, which will result in the installation of a total of about 47 million devices. In many parts of Europe and the U.S., the question of managing the data coming from meters is still up for debate. Not so in the U.K., which has established a central data and communications company [...]
Boeing and Siemens work with U.S. Dept of Defense on smart grid
Boeing (Chicago, Ill., U.S.A.), an aerospace company that manufactures commercial jetliners and defense, space and security systems, and Siemens Industry, Inc., the U.S. affiliate of Siemens (Munich, Germany), an electrical engineering company, recently announced a strategic alliance for the joint development and marketing of smart grid technologies to improve energy access and security for the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD), the largest energy consumer in the federal government. The collaboration centers on providing U.S. military [...]
