Silver Spring Networks, Inc. (NYSE: SSNI), a leading networking platform and solutions provider for smart energy networks, today announced that it will extend its smart grid partnership with Dominion Virginia Power to support the installation of advanced metering infrastructure in the utility’s Virginia service territory. The deployment leverages Silver Spring’s IPv6-based networking platform for advanced Continue reading →
Cisco has long said that it wants to network the world’s electricity grids much like it has networked the internet at large. But connecting computers, smartphones and other Internet Protocol (IP)-capable devices is a bit simpler than connecting power grid equipment that’s built around decades-old technology, as Cisco and other smart grid networking contenders have Continue reading →
Masers Energy Malaysia, a fully owned subsidiary of Masers Energy headquartered in San Jose, CA and London, will work with Silver Spring Networks to help bring smart infrastructure benefits to Malaysia. Under the agreement, Silver Spring Networks will coordinate smart infrastructure technology, planning and services for Masers’ Smart Grid City Melaka and Special Economic Zone Continue reading →
Today at the LIGHTFAIR International conference, Silver Spring Networks, Inc. (NYSE: SSNI), a leading networking platform and solutions provider for smart energy networks, and LED Roadway Lighting, a leading designer and manufacturer of LED-based street and area lighting fixtures and control systems, announced a collaboration to deliver the market’s first networked, field swappable intelligent streetlight Continue reading →
With millions of consumers worldwide using HomePlug AV technology in their homes every day and following positive feedback from the HomeGrid Forum Q&A, Zpryme reached out to thought leader, Rob Ranck, President at HomePlug Alliance, to expand on home networking and standards impacting the power sector. via Q&A with HomePlug Alliance on Smart Grid, Home, and Standards, Zpryme Reports – Smart Continue reading →
Smart grid networking company Silver Spring Networks has partnered with big data analytics startup AutoGrid to develop a product to help utilities better deploy energy saving programs. Under the partnership, the two companies will develop the so-called Silver Spring UtilityIQ Demand Optimizer solution, a product that essentially combines Autogrid’s tech with Silver Spring Networks’ networking Continue reading →
When you talk to Cisco about energy, you’re reminded of what the nebulous smart grid term actually is. It is, at its core, a network and Cisco, whose networking gear is pervasive on the Internet, wants a big hand in how it gets built. Cisco yesterday announced new gear and services aimed at the electric Continue reading →
The Networked Grid 2013, Greentech Media’s annual smart grid showcase and networking event, gets underway two weeks from today. Here’s to hoping the sun is shining, the wind is blowing, and the grid is humming at optimal efficiency — or, barring that, here’s to a lively set of discussions on how to handle these grid Continue reading →
The HomeGrid Forum has announced that the G.hn home networking standard has been adopted into the Catalog of Standards created by the Smart Grid Interoperability Panel (SGIP). G.hn, or Gigabit home networking, enables high-speed, in-home networking using existing household wires (e.g., power lines and phone lines) and can support smart grid applications. via Renew Grid: Continue reading →
A donation from Overland Park-based FishNet Security will enable researchers in Kansas State University’s Smart Grid Laboratory to study ways to improve electrical systems. FishNet Security, North America’s largest information security provider, will donate, integrate and manage software-defined networking equipment at the university’s Burns & McDonnell Smart Grid Laboratory. As a result of the gift, Continue reading →
When you talk to Cisco about energy, you’re reminded of what the nebulous smart grid term actually is. It is, at its core, a network and Cisco, whose networking gear is pervasive on the Internet, wants a big hand in how it gets built. Cisco yesterday announced new gear and services aimed at the electric Continue reading →
The HomePlug Alliance (www.homeplug.org), the worldwide industry group for powerline communications networking, today reports a surge of activity in HomePlug product certifications throughout 2012. HomePlug Certified products are designed to enable a home’s electrical wires to distribute broadband Internet, HD video, digital music and smart energy applications. HomePlug operates the most established and robust certification Continue reading →
Silver Spring Networks, a networking platform and solutions provider for smart energy networks, announced a new load control solution providing utilities with fast Demand Response (DR) resources to help them reduce peak load and maintain grid reliability. According to a release, Silver Spring’s open, IPv6-based networking platform has connected more than 12 million homes and Continue reading →
IMS Research forecasts that the market for equipment supporting smart grid communications and networking will grow from US$700 million in 2011 to nearly $950 million by 2016. This growth is projected even as smart meter shipments are forecast to decline from 2012 onwards in North America and general economic growth remains elusive. via Smart grid Continue reading →
The NIST asks: Can existing networking technologies and, more specifically, wireless communication systems support the communication requirements specific to the Smart Grid? via A Methodology to Evaluate Wireless Technologies for the Smart Grid | ITBusinessEdge.com.
Key players in shaping the 802.15.4g radio standard released by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) include some industry heavyweights whose names you don’t often see linked in the same press releases. (We’ve got in on page 2 in case you’d like to seeing for yourself.) Yet Elster, Itron, Landis+Gyr, the National Institute of Continue reading →
The UK’s SSWG ( Smart Specification Working Group) has demonstrated the capability of smart metering devices from leading manufacturers using the groups set of open specifications to work together in a HAN ( Home Area Network. The specifications are based on the ZigBee platform, supporting communication and networking between core HAN components. These include communications Continue reading →
The HomePlug(R) Powerline Alliance ( www.homeplug.org ), the world’s leading industry group for powerline networking, today announced the availability of the HomePlug AV2 specification. This new HomePlug technology enables significant performance and coverage for broadband networking over powerline wires while remaining fully interoperable with existing HomePlug AV / IEEE 1901 compliant products used in millions Continue reading →
ADTRAN, a foremost provider of networking solutions for the next generation, declared that Consolidated Electric Cooperative, (CEC), a self-supportive electric distribution cooperative for North Central Ohio, has chosen the ADTRAN Total Access 5000 with combined optical networking edge (ONE) which serves as the basis for its fresh 166 mi fiber network, backed by its RUS Continue reading →
The Kauai Island Utility Cooperative (KIUC) has selected Landis+Gyr to deploy advanced meters and infrastructure on the island via the Gridstream RF mesh network technology provides communication with advanced meters, distribution devices and home area networking equipment. via Landis+Gyr Lands on Kauai.
