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 data. The new disbursements will be made via his Bloomberg Philanthropies charity.
A year after...
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. The deal will see the SGCC achieve 100Gbps speeds in its transport network, up...
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 experiment with power grid automation, monitoring and control.
The joint facility will allow energy utilities,...
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 implement several connected building and internet of things (IoT) projects in the marquee venue in...
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, the company’s chief innovation officer and chief executive of its business innovations unit, said at...
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 on how IoT fits into creating positive business value, segments including manufacturing, supply chain logistics...
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 use case for the internet of things (IoT). The data generated by smart meters can...
Learn how KCP&L is working with Nokia on a smart grid project as part of a more broad smart city development
A smart city in many ways is the ultimate exercise in the internet of things in that it involves a huge variety of projects...
The utility firm is working with Landis+Gyr to implement a nationwide deployment of smart meters
Global provider of energy management solutions Landis+Gyr said it is working with British Gas to deploy new smart meters in the U.K. The company said that the first of the...
Industrial IoT solutions will drive digital transformation, but there's a gap between outlook and preparations
“The industrial internet is already having a profound impact on industrial companies of all sizes. We know this because we are seeing real benefits with our customers and across GE....
The Belgian gas distributor will implement this smart metering initiative with Proximus LoRa network
Belgium gas distributor Antargaz announced it will equip its propane gas meters with smart sensors, which will automatically transmit meter readings using local telco Proximus' LoRa network.
Antargaz said that once the...
Cummins Power Generation has leveraged the Microsoft Cloud and the internet of things (IoT) to remotely monitor power systems anywhere in the world.
Cummins Power Generation’s new PowerCommand Cloud, a cloud-based remote monitoring solution built on the Microsoft Azure IoT suite, provides new insight into...
The electric utility said nearly 900,000 customers will get the new smart meters during the upgrade program
AEP Ohio, a unit of major electric utility American Electric Power, is rolling out smart meters to nearly 900,000 customers in its area of operation. The smart meter...
A study commissioned by Inmarsat revealed most energy companies have concrete plans to deploy IoT
New research commissioned by Inmarsat finds that more than a third of energy companies around the world lack the skills they need at both a management and a delivery level...
NEC, SMUD and SpaceTime Insight partner on smart energy
New research from Markets and Markets highlights the growing importance of smart energy--bringing IT and IoT technologies to bear on the how energy is sourced and distributed. Covering smart energy distribution management, grid asset management, substation...
Honeywell IoT software solution allows airlines to reduce aircraft fuel consumption
U.S. firm Honeywell announced it is helping two European airlines to reduce fuel use on 71 aircraft through its connected aircraft GoDirect fuel efficiency software.
The technology now being deployed by Brussels Airlines and Air...
Silver Spring Networks will deploy its Starfish smart lighting platform-as-a-service (PaaS) across of London
Silver Spring Networks announced that it will deploy its Starfish smart lighting platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offering across the City of London and the boroughs of Barking and Dagenham. The company previously announced...
SoftBank said the company will provide its IoT platforms based on big data analysis and predictive technologies
Japanese telecoms group SoftBank has entered into a definitive agreement of investment in Encored, a provider of energy IoT platforms.
The Japanese firm said that following the investment the...
The NB-IoT project is being carried out with local partners including telecoms operator NOS
Chinese vendor Huawei has developed a narrowband internet of things (NB-IoT) smart meter for Portuguese utility EDP Distribuição in partnership with Janz CE and u-blox.
EDP Distribuição is using this technology for...
Northern California's Placer County Water Agency is the first water utility to announce an agreement with Nokia, which will transition the agency to an IP-based communications infrastructure. Nokia has more than 200 power utility customers, and the company's global energy group landed the deal...
Under the smart lighting contract, Ameresco will use IoT technology provided by Silver Spring Networks
U.S. company Ameresco announced it has been contracted by the city of Chicago as part of a municipal smart lighting project meant to modernize city infrastructure. Ameresco said it will...
The eLTE smart grid solution is already commercially available in China
Chinese vendor Huawei has released its wireless smart grid solution, dubbed the eLTE SmartGrid. The vendor said its new eLTE SmartGrid solution applies advanced 4.5G cellular wireless communication technology in the electric power industry to...
British Columbia’s main electric utility, BC Hydro, which provides clean energy to its 1.9 million residential, commercial and industrial customers, has been investing in a scalable technology infrastructure to help automate processes and improve control and access to the information now available from the...
Deep dive: The Internet of Energy: utilizing IoT technology to address risks and create a truly smarter grid
Andres Carvallo, CEO & Founder, CMG, Co-author “The Advanced Smart Grid”, Series Editor, Power Engineering – Artech House, Board Director, Smart Grid Interoperability Panel
Colman Keane - Director...
