Sigma Designs, a leader in connected media platforms and home networking technologies, confirmed that the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) has developed a new sub 1GHz narrow band wireless standard. The ITU-T G.9959 standard is largely based on the Z-Wave technology and defines backwards compatibility to the Z-Wave standard. “This new ITU standard is a step Continue reading →
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The International Telecommunications Union (ITU) said that its standards for smart grids have been approved and now available for download. The new standards — Recommendations ITU-T G.9955 and G.9956 — contain the physical layer (PHY) and the data link layer (DLL) specifications, respectively, for NB-PLC transceivers based on OFDM (orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing). via ITU approves Continue reading →
New ITU standards for smart grid have achieved final approval and are now available for download. Recommendations ITU-T G.9955 and G.9956 define three international next generation narrowband powerline communications (NB-PLC) standards. The approved family of standards will enable cost-effective smart grid applications such as distribution automation, diagnostic and fault location, smart metering, demand response, energy Continue reading →
G.hn, the catch all no-new-wires home networking standard that can accommodate copper wire, coax, and powerlines, reached a big milestone as the ITU gave their final approval of the standard. via G.hn standard gets ITU-T’s blessing – FierceTelecom.
Powerline smart grid proponents go head-to-head at the Connectivity Week shooting off competing announcements aimed at the emerging market for smart electric grids. Adversaries were quick to admit the market potential is huge, but the there is still no end in sight to years of fragmentation in their technical approaches. The HomePlug Powerline Alliance announced Continue reading →
Information and communication technology (ICT) companies from around the globe have assigned a new International Telecommunications Union (ITU) group the task of identifying standards needs for the world’s new Smart Grid deployments. Such standards will bring the benefits of digital technology to the existing electricity network as well as much-needed efficiency and flexibility to power Continue reading →
The evolution and success of the smart grid is heavily contingent on the global standardization of low-frequency band power line communication (PLC) solutions. Addressing this market need, Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) today announced it has joined the HomeGrid Forum board of directors to contribute to this worldwide standardization effort through the International Telecommunication Union’s (ITU-T) Continue reading →
Global semiconductor company Texas Instruments (TI) has joined the board of directors of the HomeGrid Forum, a non-profit trade group promoting the International Telecommunication Union’s G.hn standardisation efforts for next-generation home networking. via NewNet News – Semiconductor company Texas Instruments joins smart grid trade group HomeGrid Forum.
The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) is setting up two new focus groups – one to look at cloud computing and one at smart grids – to identify what future telecommunications standards might be needed to support these technologies. Any standardisation requirements identified by the groups will be taken forward by relevant ITU-T (Telecommunications) study groups. Continue reading →
