Silver Spring Networks, a leading provider of smart grid platforms, announced 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 Michigan Power through AEP’s Continue reading →
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Smart homes and smart grids are coming, with big players scrambling to meet increasing consumer demand for easy-to-use energy efficiency tools at home. Everyone, it seems, wants to be the first to sell your local utility company on their new energy management system, and the latest is GreenWave Reality. GreenWave’s energy management platform is built around open-standard Internet Continue reading →
Cisco announced the first offerings in its new Connected Grid portfolio of smart grid communications solutions that will help utilities more reliably and efficiently deliver electric power from generation facilities to businesses and homes, resulting in better energy management, as well as economic and environmental benefits. The purpose-built, ruggedized routers and switches form a resilient, Continue reading →
A video from Cisco about their Smart Grid work – Learn about how Cisco works with Smart Grid Ecosystem partners to deliver an end-to-end IP based infrastructure.
When it comes to smart grid deployments the need for “open” architecture using Internet Protocol has become resounding (IP is one of our Winners of 2009 on GigaOM Pro). Hey, even the phone companies — who have long built closed, proprietary networks — want to offer something in the ballpark of an open network. This morning Continue reading →
Fred Baker, Tony Hain, and Paul Duffy, Cisco Systems Introduction In this note, we propose using the Internet Architecture as a basis for the architecture of the Smart Grid. This is not a new idea; many have suggested it as a reasonable direction. Our objective here is to make it plain so that it can Continue reading →
Watteco SAS (www.watteco.com), a French System on Chip (SoC) manufacturer of “no new wire” Power Line Communication (PLC) modems for energy efficiency and intelligent home control applications, today announced the establishment of a U.S. sales, marketing and technical support headquarters here to anchor the company’s growing North American business operations and support the launch of Continue reading →
