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Con Edison installs four million smart meters in New York as part of smart grid upgrade

US energy company Consolidated Edison (Con Edison) has deployed a total of four million smart gas modules and electricity meters across its service territory in New York as a part of its advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) project with Itron. The duration of the project,...

Itron signs smart metering deals with Versant Power and Pacific Northern Gas

Electric transmission and distribution utility Versant Power will deploy advanced metering solutions and smart meters in Maine, in the US, with a view to modernize its electricity grid. Versant Power plans to initiate some project activities in 2021 and meter installations are scheduled to...

Verizon Ventures invests in Israeli security startup Vdoo

  Verizon Ventures and Qumra Capital have provided funding for Israeli firm Vdoo, which is a specialist in security solutions for connected products. In a release, Vdoo revealed it had extended its Series B funding to $57M, in an additional round led by Qumra Capital, Verizon...

Landis+Gyr and Vodafone embed global IoT connectivity into meters and grid assets

Swiss energy management company Landis+Gyr has signed with UK-based Vodafone to connect smart meters and smart grid applications to 400-odd mobile networks in 180 countries using Vodafone’s network and roaming partnerships, as well as its IoT device management and services portfolio.  The partnership, formalised as...

Chinese smart meter firm Hexing bundles Arm Pelion and Wi-SUN for global push

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...

Itron wins contract to upgrade local Swedish smart grid and meters

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...

Local Washington authority slashes 30% water losses after smart meter rollout

The City of Walla Walla in Washington state in the US has detected and fixed 2,000 water leaks within 12 months after deploying a new smart metering system, the city has said. The city, the county seat of Walla Walla County, and a significant wine-growing...

Verizon, Honeywell help utilities to accelerate deployment of smart meters

Verizon has inked an agreement with Honeywell with the aim of helping utilities speed up the deployment of new communication-enabled, intelligent sensors and controls for the smart electric grid, both firms said in a release. Under the terms of the agreement, Verizon will integrate its...

Itron to install 280,000 smart water meters in Kentucky

Liberty Lake based IoT provider Itron has signed a contract with Louisville Water Company, in Louisville, Kentucky, to replace around 280,000 water meters. Itron will install smart meters in their place, alongside a data management platform. It said the meters capture and communicate data around...

Nippon Gas to upgrade 850,000 gas meters with smart capabilities

Japanese utility firm Nippon Gas (NICIGAS) announced plans to upgrade 850,000 gas meters with smart capabilities in 2020 using a retrofitted gas meter reader developed by UnaBiz and Soracom, the latter said in a statement. IoT connectivity provider Soracom highlighted that Space Hotaru, an...

Senet, MeterSYS to deliver LoRaWAN smart city solutions

Water metering is one of the fastest growing LoRaWAN market segments Cloud-based software and services platforms provider Senet is partnering up with MeterSYS, a company specializing in advanced smart city and metering technology solutions for public utilities. The collaboration focuses on the deployment of LoRaWAN-enabled networks...

Rocky Mountain Power appoints Itron to upgrade smart grid capabilities

IoT system provider Itron has signed a deal with Rocky Mountain Power to deploy new smart meters and smart grid capabilities. The electric company, serving customers in Idaho, Utah, and Wyoming, will get a real-time read on grid devices and operations, said Itron.  Rocky Mountain...

Airtel, Vodafone Idea to launch NB-IoT in India soon: report

Vodafone hunting first commercial NB-IoT deal Indian telecommunications operators Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Idea are currently getting ready to launch commercial NB-IoT services in the Indian market in the coming months, according to a report by The Economic Times. The two telcos have already inked partnerships with several...

Metering is at the “heart” of the energy transition, says IoT maker EDMI

EDMI, owned by Osaki Electric Company in Japan, has major smart metering deals with water, gas, and electric utilities in Asia and Europe. The Singapore-based company makes IoT modules for utilities, to provide the management platform for smart meter devices, connectivity, and data. EDMI struck...

The ‘beauty’ of broadband powerline (BPL), and the advance of Germany’s energiewende

Germany has a good model for the adoption of renewable energy resources. The country has an aggressive decarbonisation agenda as part of its energiewende (‘energy transition’). It shut down seven reactors after the nuclear disaster at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi plant in 2011, has since...

Itron to connect 240,000 smart electricity meters in Western Australia

Itron has a deal with givernment owned utility Western Power in Australia to connect around 240,000 electricity meters. Western Power, in Western Australia, will gain visibility into the operation of its electricity distribution network, enabling automated data collection, new remote services and the ability...

Mass deployments in APAC to take smart water meter market past 400m by 2026

Asia Pacific accounted for 42 per cent of the total installed base of smart water meters in 2018; its share will rise in the coming years as water utilities in China, India, Japan, and South Korea move from trials to large scale deployments, starting...

Colorado Springs Utilities selects Landis+Gyr for smart meter system

U.S. utility Colorado Springs Utilities has selected Swiss company Landis+Gyr to replace the utility's metering system with an advanced IoT network technology, capable of supporting the next generation of energy management applications, the former said in a statement. Under the terms of the agreement, the...

Making Industry Smarter: Energy & Power | Why the home is the heart of the new energy internet

Smart meters have provided a read-out on energy consumption and a window on energy usage. They have brought insight and control to the field of energy management, both sides of the meter. They are, in a sense, the gateway devices for these concepts of...

Itron to provide IoT-based solution for Libery Utilities in the US

U.S. tech firm Itron has signed a contract with Liberty Utilities Company, a subsidiary of Algonquin Power and Utilities, which operates nearly 40 utilities in 13 U.S. states. Under the agreement, Liberty Utilities will deploy Itron’s OpenWay Riva, an internet of things solution that...

Asia’s largest markets to reach 966 million smart electricity meters in 2024

The installed base of smart electricity meters in Asia’s four main markets will reach almost 966 million in 2024, up from 613.4 million last year, according to a new a research report from Sweden-based IoT analyst firm Berg Insight. The study revealed that the installed base of smart electricity...

The way to decarbonised, decentralised power: What is a smart grid anyway?

The German Ministry of Economics and Technology (BMWi) has a good definition of ‘smart grids’, which needs no embellishment. “The basic idea is that each device which is connected to the electricity grid should be integrated on a ‘plug-and-play’ basis. This creates an integrated...

Energy management Q&A: “NB-IoT and AI are game-changers,” says Honeywell

New Jersey-based Honeywell is a stalwart in smart energy systems, with focus particularly on industrial and enterprise solutions. It is proviidng managed smart grid services as a way for utilities to manage technical smart grid networks more easily, and enable improved electricity service and...

China has 63% of all cellular IoT connections, claims study

China accounted for 63% of the global installed base of cellular IoT connections at the end of  last year, according to a new research by Swedish IoT analyst firm Berg Insight. The report highlighted that the global number of cellular IoT subscribers increased by 70% during 2018 to...