The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has said it will consider allowing the 900 MHz band in the US to be used by energy companies for private LTE and 5G networking.
The move is a response to a long-standing request by private networking firm Anterix, which...
Ubicquia has released a new IoT router for street lights that it claims is the simplest, cheapest, and most sophisticated way for smart cities to control their various tech sensors.
The Fort Lauderdale firm, which makes smart lighting control platforms, said the new Ubicell 2.0...
Chinese smart metering firm Hexing is bundling the Pelion IoT platform, from UK-based silicon design company Arm, and low-power Wi-SUN connectivity into its advanced metering infrastructure (AMI), as it seeks to expand into Southeast Asia, India, South America, and Europe.
Hexing is offering Wi-SUN based...
Swiss firm Landis+Gyr said it has recently expanded smart grid capabilities in Central America with the completion of an advanced metering project for Empresa Eléctrica De Guatemala S.A. (EEGSA), to support the utility's time-of-use (TOU) rates for reducing peak electricity demand.
The five-month project involved...
Polish energy sector company PGE Systemy has appointed Nokia to deploy a pilot version of a private LTE network in the 450 MHz band.
The 450 MHz band is being adopted across Europe for smart grid applications. PGE Systemy’s private wireless network could upport up...
The U.S. Department of Energy?s
(DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) announced a
Request for Information (RFI) seeking public input on a potential funding
opportunity to demonstrate and evaluate the capacity of energy-efficient buildings
to interact with one another and the grid to provide greater...
Deep learning can be used for reducing energy use in buildings across the U.S. according to Pacific Northwest National Laboratory?(PNNL).
PNNL is one of the United States Department of Energy national laboratories, managed by the Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Science.
PNNL
noted that American buildings consume roughly...
French IoT network equipment vendor Kerlink has announced the biggest LoRaWAN deployment in Germany, a major LoRaWAN initiative around retail analytics, and pioneering work to help with water management for refugees in Africa and Asia.
The firm has joined with German IoT system integrator ZENNER...
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Lighting...
Telecoms provider and broadcaster Teracom has said it will use radio and cloud products from Ericsson as it starts to roll out LTE and 5G in the 450 MHz band in Sweden. Teracom will offer critical-grade LTE and 5G to public and private national...
The city of Cardiff in the UK has started a tender process to procure a lighting supplier for the £4.5 million upgrade of 23,750 residential streetlights in the city with LED bulbs and smart controls.
The move follows completion of a residential pilot in the...
The city of Stockholm in Sweden is to deploy a software platform from Itron to manage its streetlights, according to the US-based industrial networking company.
Itron has signed a contract with Stockholm to deploy its Streetlight.Vision (SLV) platform. SLV delivers asset management, analytics and control...
Honeywell has announced the launch of its new Forge Energy Optimization, a cloud-based, machine learning solution for smart buildings.
The solution "continuously studies a building?s energy consumption patterns" and automatically adjusts to optimal energy saving settings without compromising occupant comfort levels, the company said in...
US-based industrial networking company Itron has signed with local electricity provider Borås Elnät in Sweden to swap-in 46,000 smart electric meters and layer-in sensors and analytics across its grid infrastructure.
Borås Elnät operates in the city of Borås in Västra Götaland County, in Sweden. Itron...
German company Bosch has consolidated its activities centered on the Internet of Things (IoT) into a new subsidiary.
With some 900 associates, Bosch.IO covers a wide range of IoT services including consulting, implementation and operation.
“With Bosch.IO, we are strengthening our position as a leading IoT...
Semtech Corporation announced that NetOP, a developer and manufacturer of LPWAN-based IoT applications, has developed a new smart energy consumption monitoring solution based on Semtech’s LoRa devices and the LoRaWAN protocol.
The solution, named the “Octopus,” leverages LoRa devices’ advantages for real-time data monitoring to detect abnormal spikes...
By 2025, 5G connections should cover 40 per cent of Europe’s workforce, 70 per cent of its industrial sites, and 80 per cent of its main logistics routes. This was the message from DigitalEurope, the trade association for the European tech industry, at the...
OSIsoft has reworked its PI System for the energy sector to plug-in, process, and manage data streaming from distributed energy resources. It has picked up a couple of new contracts, as well.
The company said the new architecture supports a “community system of data”, enabling...
Brazilian telecoms regulator Anatel has approved local energy distributor Neoenergia to operate a private LTE network in the 3.5 GHz frequency. It will be the first private LTE network in Brazil, and the first for smart electric grids in Latin America.
Finnish vendor Nokia secured...
Industrial IoT firm Seeq raises $24 million from equity sale
Seattle-based industrial analytics company Seeq has raised $24 million from investors, according to a report in Computer Reseller News.
Seeq has sold $24.3 million of equity to an unnamed investor group, according to the report, which...
The installed base of smart street lights is forecasted to surpass 31.2 million at a global level by 2013, according to a new research report from the IoT analyst firm Berg Insight.
The Swedish firm said that the installed base of smart street lights was...
Itai Dadon, director of smart cities and IoT, Itron:
1. The finance industry takes an interest
“Cities continue to grow at a fast pace; at the same time, they are learning fast and their strategy around digital transformation is maturing, which is generating a lot of...
German giant Siemens said it is working to develop an integrated digital solution to help the world-famous Halle orchestra, based in Manchester, U.K., cut its costs by 35% through energy reduction.
Siemens? integrated digital solution will aim to make Halle St. Peter?s, the historic recording...
Fingrid, Finland’s national transmission system operator, has appointed Nokia to build an IP/MPLS network to support the digital transformation of its national electrical grid.
Fingrid will use the network to operate 120 high-voltage substations and control 14,600 kilometres of power transmission across the country. The...
