Energy

As electrical systems in commercial office buildings and facilities age, the probability for system failures and safety issues increase exponentially – resulting in costly disruptions. Now Schneider Electric has created …

Will blockchain help to democratise power generation and power consumption? It is a tangential, and tech-minded, question, which came out of the central narrative at European Utility Week 2018 in Vienna …

The planet’s appetite for energy is growing; demand for electricity shows no signs of slowing. German technology company Siemens told European Utility Week 2018 in Vienna the only way the …

Siemens has unveiled a new drone-mounted multi-sensor system running artificial intelligence and machine learning for overhead power-line inspections. Combining a number of sensors and cameras, the new system enables power …

Only one smart city use case stands up to close scrutiny: smart street lighting. The business case for parking and garbage, the other functions in the holy trinity of smart …

  Nearly 20,000 customers will trial smart-home technologies including thermostats and water heaters   Portland General Electric has announced plans to file a proposal to carry out a smart grid …

As increasing energy costs in commercial and industrial buildings continue to be a significant challenge, more building owners are using building energy management systems (BEMS) to cut energy waste as …

Nevada-based NV Energy has upgraded its demand response management system for improved load management capabilities and enhanced cybersecurity. Smart-city tech provider has handled the software in the modernisation project, which …

A research study revealed that North America will have 14.4 million connected streetlights by 2023 Miami is the world’s number one city in terms of connected streetlights deployment according to …

Dell Technologies will release a number of pre-integrated and pre-tested computer-vision and machine-intelligence bundles for its resellers to more easily cater to certain edge-computing and internet-of-things use cases. The bundles, …

Itron said it is seeing a high level of interest from customers for the firm’s new smart gas and water meters   U.S. firm Itron, which focuses on technology solutions …

The latest index of countries’ progress against the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) makes for grim reading. No country is on track to achieve the targets, set out by the …

A report by Navigant Research said the Asian country ended March with a total of 496 million installed smart meters   China continues to lead the global smart meter market …

New research by McKinsey Global Institute has evaluated the planet’s smartest cities on both their underlying infrastructure and their over-lying applications, and ranked them in order on both counts. Here, …

The global market for smart city information and communications technologies will grow by 15.8 per cent per year on average over the next five years, reaching $994.6 million by 2023. …

Stockholm is a ‘lighthouse city’, alongside Cologne and Barcelona, in the European Commission’s GrowSmarter project, one of three to receive support in the first ‘Smart Cities and Communities’ (SCC1) call under the Horizon …

Many of the sensors used in IoT are battery-powered and organized into mesh networks. Set to transmit anywhere from every few seconds to every few hours. They can run for …

The European Commission (EC) has proposed a total budget of €51.5 billion for new technologies and network infrastructure under its next funding cycle, from 2021 to 2027, to drive industrial …

Former mayor of New York Michael Bloomberg has announced packages of $70 million and $42 million respectively to help US smart cities fight climate change and develop their usage of …

Nokia has won a contract to deliver an optical transport network (OTN) to the State Grid Corporation of China (SGCC), covering the SGCC’s power grid operations in Beijing and Tianjin. …

Nokia has linked its ‘energy innovation centre’ in Plano, Texas, with the University of Strathclyde’s power systems lab in Glasgow, Scotland, to create a transatlantic test lab for utilities to …

Honeywell piloting its Outcome Based Service (OBS) solution across the mechanical components of the HVAC system Honeywell has been working with management of the world?s tallest building, Burj Khalifa, to …

Telecoms carriers should urgently marry innovation with new working practices if they are to capitalise on the opportunity of the industrialised ‘internet of things’ (IoT), according to GE. Sue Siegel, …

Nokia looks to support customer-led testing prior to investment in an IoT solution As internet of things (IoT) companies look to help enterprise and industrial interests get a better grasp …

The IoT is applicable to energy in many more ways than just smart metering Smart metering–connecting electric, gas and other utility meters to the internet–has emerged as an important early …