Smart Grid News
Utilities overwhelmed by smart-grid cost
Microsoft survey finds that utilities want to implement the smart grid, but are confined by the infrastructure costs...
T-Mobile: M2M connections to outnumber humans 4-to-1
As T-Mobile scales its M2M platform, machines will become the dominant connection type on the network though not the primary consumer of bandwidth...
Telco, energy convergence drives Paetec acquisition
Competitive local exchange carrier acquires U.S. Energy Partners, its second energy company deal...
A strategic road map to smart grid success
Creating a smarter grid is the “checkered flag” our industry has been eyeing for years — long before the term “smart grid” was coined. ...
Defining telcos role in remote energy management
Telco -- like IT companies -- should seek a role in energy management, with or without utilities, analyst says...
Smart grid or green grid?
Today, there is a lot of discussion as to exactly what a “smart grid” is. ...
Verizon Business, Current team up on smart grid
Verizon will lend its IT, security, network, communications and consulting services to Current’s smart-grid business ...
Grid ComForum: Information competition driving smart-grid
Consumer empowerment, information competition is changing the landscape for utilities, IBM exec says...
FCC encourages cooperation between broadband, smart grid
Agency plans specific recommendations on linking the two in upcoming National Broadband Plan...
Smart grid: Definition, road map and breadth of this grand challenge
A smarter electric power grid promises greater efficiency, reliability and security leading to greater use of renewable energy sources that positively impact our environment. ...
Smart grid market to reach $200 billion by 2015
Pike Research report identifies smart grid automation as primary growth driver...
Intel outlines future of embedded devices
A Q&A with Jonathan Luse, Intel's director of marketing for the low-power embedded products division ...
Bandwidth metering: A path to empowerment?
Last week Comcast began its pilot test of its Data Usage Meter in Portland, Ore. The data usage meter allows customers to measure all usage from their broadband service and will also collect data usage from all devices connected...
Should users finance fiber-to-the-home?
If we’re paying for broadband deployment with federal taxes anyway, should we be able to buy our own fiber connections?...
Amdocs: Telco opportunity in supporting a 'trillion' devices
App stores and best-effort networks are already commodities; the future is in supporting mission-critical and life-saving value adds...
Wi-Fi Alliance outlines WiFi’s role in the smart grid
Today kicks off the first meeting of the Smart Grid Interoperability Panel (SGIP) and governing board meeting at the Grid-Interop show in Denver. Organized by the National Institute of Standards and Technology...
Energy management not waiting on smart grid
In-home energy management is a cornerstone of the smart grid movement, but it’s not necessarily reliant on having the updated grid infrastructure and demand response technology in place...
Why smart-grid, broadband stimulus applicants need each other
This week the Department of Energy awarded $3.4 billion in stimulus funding to one-fourth of the 400 smart grid stimulus applicants spanning 49 states...
Tekelec pushes for SMS in M2M networks
The next big M2M innovation might just be an old standard. Messaging and signaling infrastructure vendor Tekelec is trying to make a case for SMS as the mechanism for transferring small amounts of data across wireless telematics networks....
Rural telcos, utilities should partner on smart grids
Combining their traditional assets, such as utility company rights of way and external power capabilities with telcos’ intelligent networks and data-gathering abilities enables both sides to reduce costs and potentially generate new revenues...
