Central Vermont Public Service (CVPS) and Green Mountain Power (GMP) has selected CamAmp to supply its Fusion-LTE router for their mid-tier networks to enable broadband communication for Smart Grid advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) and Distribution Automation applications. Fusion-LTE was chosen as the communications link between the electric utilities’ AMI concentrators and their core communications infrastructures Continue reading →
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Included in Zpryme’s Smart Grid Insights new report, Telecom and the Smart Grid, the total Smart Grid Communications market is slated to experience tremendous market growth through 2015, projected to reach almost $1.6 Billion (the market is divided between wired and wireless communications). Currently the market size of wired communications is larger; however wireless communications Continue reading →
RuggedCom has been selected as a supplier of communications wireline devices for the smart grid deployment at Vermont’s Burlington Electric Department (BED). RuggedCom’s broad portfolio of distribution and substation automation products will support the efficient implementation of an advanced smart grid communications network. via RuggedCom puts smart grid to BED – FierceSmartGrid.
As utilities roll out Smart Grids, they are working more closely with telecommunication providers than ever before. For many in the energy industry, however, that relationship begins and ends with communications. In fact, communications is just one small part of the story. As the Smart Grid evolves—and as utilities’ data center and security requirements evolve Continue reading →
The £9.7 million Flexible Plug and Play (FFP) Low Carbon Networks project, which is funded under Ofgem’s Low Carbon Network Fund, will connect and manage onshore wind power using smart grid solutions run over an IPv6-based communications network. via Renewable Energy Focus – Smart grid project planned for Cambridgeshire, UK.
E-Mon, the electric submetering market leader and manufacturer of the widely installed E-Mon D-Mon® product line, announces the availability of four new Smart Meter Class devices. E-Mon’s new smart meters offer built-in communications, advanced energy information — including 38 metering parameters — and expanded communications functions. In addition to recently completing requirements for UL/CUL listing, Continue reading →
If you walked in late on the final morning of the Gridwise Global Forum conference, you may have been confused. Instead of a panel about communications standards or Volt/var control, there was a Pampers ad playing on a large TV screen. via Does Smart Grid Need Madison Avenue? : Greentech Media.
AFL has entered into a marketing agreement with LightRiver Technologies to be a value-add partner with utilities in North America and to offer a complete communications network solution for the growing Smart Grid market. via AFL Partners with LightRiver Technologies.
Power line communications (PLC) has had a bad rap, particularly in the U.S., for a long time and has been declared officially dead any number of times. But during a conversation with Aclara’s senior product marketing manager Edward J. Kobeszka at the recent Smart Energy International conference, he made it pretty clear that as far Continue reading →
Consumer Energy, who look after 1.8 million customers in Michigan across a 32,000 square mile territory, has chosen SmartSynch to provide an advanced metering system for a grid and meter modernisation programme, utilising existing cellular networks for smart grid communications rather than building and maintaining a private network. The new programme will mean that the Continue reading →
A report sponsored by Atlanta-based Smart Grid Consumer Collaborative (SGCC) has found that utilities are improving customer understanding of the near-term benefits of smart grid programs by upgrading their communications, service response, incentive programs, and internal consumer engagement processes. via Smarter Utility – Study Finds Higher US Consumer Receptivity to Smart Grid.
Atmel® Corporation (Nasdaq: ATML), a leader in microcontroller and touch solutions, and Redpine Signals today announced that system engineers can easily implement 802.11n Wi-Fi to all Atmel AVR® and ARM®-based microcontrollers (MCUs) using Redpine Signals’ Connect-io-n™ and n-Link™ modules. System engineers for Atmel AVR® XMEGA® and AVR UC3 MCU families and Atmel SAM3 and SAM9 Continue reading →
For years, private radio frequency (RF) networks have ruled the North American smart grid communications market. Cracks began to appear in the dike in the summer of 2010 when Texas New Mexico Power announced it would use a public cellular network for its 230,000 meters. via Smart Grid: Smart grid communications game changer? Consumers Energy Continue reading →
Sprint Nextel Corp. is eyeing business from utilities as it rolls out new smart-grid offerings. On Monday, Sprint (NYSE: S) announced that it had partnered its wireless network and machine-to-machine knowledge with Neptune Technology Group Inc., a Tallassee, Ala., digital power meter-maker. via Sprint Nextel’s smart-grid offerings target utilities – Kansas City Business Journal.
The debate over whether utilities will want to build their own networks, or use cellular networks, continues. Now put one on the board for the cellular smart grid side. On Monday, utility Consumers Energy announced it will work with SmartSynch to roll out cellular-based smart meters for 1.8 million customers in Michigan. Consumers Energy says Continue reading →
Itron has entered into a strategic partnership with Tantalus Systems Corp. designed to deliver smart metering and smart grid benefits to electric and multi-service public utilities in North and Central America. The collaboration merges Itron’s SENTINEL and CENTRON electric meters along with its gas and water encoder, receiver, and transmitter (ERT) modules with TUNet Tantalus’ Continue reading →
Silver Spring Networks, a leading smart grid networking platform and solutions provider, announced new enhancements to its smart grid-based demand response solution that enable utilities to reduce peak load and improve grid reliability. New capabilities include Direct-to-Grid™ communications solutions, which enable utilities to deploy two-way connectivity to load-control devices ahead of smart meter rollouts, and Continue reading →
Most cities are just big laboratories. But people, quite frankly, can get in the way of turning crumbling, city infrastructure into a smart one. A Washington D.C.-based tech company wants to create a ghost town in New Mexico, to give companies and organizations a place to check the limits of renewable energy systems, smart grid Continue reading →
OKI Electric Industry, a Japanese telecommunications manufacturer, has developed a wireless communication system designed for use in smart communities, smart houses and smart meters. via New wireless system could enable smarter cities in Japan | Energy.
The UK government has taken the surprise move of announcing contracts valued at £4.59 billion to build a new wide-area network across the UK to support smart metering. The government is responding to Europe Union rules that call for smart meters to be in use across the UK by 2020, which will result in nearly Continue reading →
