home energy management
The Home Gateway Initiative (HGI), member-led organisation devoted to translating broadband service providers’ service plans into published technology requirements, will share its in-home architecture of triple-play services alongside other specific requirements for home energy management (HEM) at a workshop at Telecom Italia laboratories in Turin, Italy, between 30 – 31 March.
Smart Grid
Smart-grid platform provider Silver Spring Networks has announced that Public Service Company of Oklahoma (PSO) will deploy Silver Spring’s smart-grid solutions. The agreement follows the deployment of Silver Spring’s field-proven, IP-based Smart Energy Platform at two of American Electric Power’s other operating companies, AEP Ohio and Indiana
smart meters
Itron has started the delivery of 120,000 smart water meters to Malta’s Water Services Corporation (WSC), as part of a contract that will continue through 2013. To date, 25,000 Itron water meters and communication modules to be connected to the existing Ondeo Systems’ smart metering solution have
energy
Syracuse University Research Fellow Janet Marsden plans to discuss her vision of a future in which homes can produce all the energy they need off-grid when she speaks at the third-annual IEEE Green Technologies Conference. The conference is set for 14-15 April at the Hilton Hotel in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
energy management
AT&T and Georgia-based startup E3 Greentech are partnering to provide wireless access to a central unit, the home-based E3 Intelligent Bridge, that’s designed to help homeowners and property managers optimise their energy use by automatically reducing energy waste. E3 Greentech’s Home Energy Management System (HEMS) uses
networks
Six companies that own and operate some of the largest networks in the world have formed the Open Networking Foundation (ONF), a nonprofit organisation dedicated to promoting a new approach to networking called Software-Defined Networking (SDN). The founding companies are Deutsche Telekom, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Verizon, and Yahoo! Joining them
Smart Grid
Alstom has acquired Utility Integration Solutions Inc. (UISOL), a Santa Clara, California-based company that develops and commercialises DRBizNet, a software platform for demand response management. The acquisition is aimed at strengthening Alstom Grid’s capabilities for network management and smart-grid solutions. UISOL, which employs 44 employees, generated total sales of
sustainable cities
Cisco has rolled out new wireless hardware and software solutions designed to extend the corporate wireless network from the office to the home teleworker, incorporating existing control, management and security infrastructure. The Cisco OfficeExtend solution includes new access points and a full line of wireless controllers that offer high-performance wireless
news
Happy spring, Greenbangers! The pace of smart grid/smart cities developments continues to accelerate, and that’s keeping us busier than ever here at Greenbang. Our latest news is the release of our report comparing the visibility of leading smart-cities firms, “The Greenbang Smart Matrix™ – Smart Cities: How brands compare
smart cities
More than half of the world’s nearly seven billion people now live in urban areas, and that proportion is expected to reach almost 69 per cent by 2050. To avoid pushing local and global systems to the point of collapse, cities will need to become much smarter and more
energy efficiency
Oregon has launched its Clean Energy Works program statewide, as well as the successful completion of its pilot project in the city of Portland. The pilot project reached its goal of 500 energy-efficiency home upgrades and supported over 350 jobs. Due to the enthusiastic response to the pilot program, Clean
Smart Grid
Most of us nowadays know to do something if we see a faucet in our home dripping uncontrollably around the clock. Even if we don’t consider ourselves particularly “green,” we know waste when we see it and understand that all that water slipping uselessly down the drain is money
