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A smarter power grid means making the most of energy wherever it’s located, and bringing waste to a minimum. One technology company is taking that goal to a whole new level with an IPv6 wireless sensor network that’s completely self-powered. California-based Dust Networks plans to demonstrate its SmartMesh
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Successfully deploying 44 synchrophasors hardly sounds like a big deal, until you realise what those devices can mean in terms of keeping the lights on. Integrated across a regional power transmission network, that relatively small number of devices can “bring a new level of situational awareness to grid operators,” said
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On-Ramp Wireless has released its Remote Monitoring Unit (RMU), a smart grid and infrastructure-monitoring device. In its first application deployment, the RMU provides specific functionality for monitoring and automatic alarm notification of solar-powered and line-power obstruction warning lights in electric transmission towers, cellular towers and other obstacles as required by
