Scottish Power is trialling 5,000 smart electricity meters in homes as part of a test that will simulate the national smart meter roll-out by covering both heavily populated and rural areas. The 18-month trial will see smart meters ...
Tags: Instruments, Meters, Scottish Power, Smart Meter
Qorvo Inc of Greensboro, NC, USA (which provides core technologies and RF solutions for mobile, infrastructure and defense applications) has been chosen to provide the RF solution for the new NB-IoT modules of machine-to-Machine (M2M) ...
Tags: Qorvo, Smart Metering
Skyworks Solutions Inc of Woburn, MA, USA (which manufactures analog and mixed-signal semiconductors) has introduced a highly integrated 470-510MHz front-end module (FEM) that is suitable for smart energy, smart metering (electric, gas, ...
Tags: Skyworks Solutions, FEM, smart energy
Avantha Group Company CG (Crompton Greaves) will be opening a new facility at Grenoble in France to produce, test and calibrate over 2 million ZIV smart meters per year. CG has chosen Grenoble to open this new facility, so as to cover the ...
Tags: G3-PLC technology, Electrical
India is targeting a gross domestic product (GDP) growth rate of 8-9 per cent in the coming years and to enable this growth, the economy needs the support of its power sector and India's electrical equipment industry is expected to play a ...
Siemens and Accenture have agreed to form a joint venture in the Smart Grid field. Named Omnetric Group, it will develop solutions and services that allow utilities to improve efficiency and achieve greater supply security. The company will ...
Tags: Siemens, Electrical, Electronics
Sensus, a provider of clean technology solutions, received the "Best Smart Grid Product or Solution" award at the fourth annual Rural Smart Grid Summit (RSGS). Over 100 rural electric cooperative executives voted to select Sensus for this ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics, Smart Grid Leader
The government says its expects all major energy companies to offer smart metering services to all consumers by autumn 2015. The deadline was spelled out in a speech made to the Smart Metering Forum last ?week by Baroness Verma, ...
Tags: Smart Meters, Energy Smart Meters
DecisionPoint Systems, Inc. (OTCQB: DPSI), a leading provider and integrator of Enterprise Mobility, Wireless Applications and RFID solutions, announced that it has entered into a strategic partnership agreement with Landis+Gyr, the ...
Tags: DecisionPoint, Landis+Gyr, partner, software, tool, smart meter
Germany’s potential rejection of smart meters could pose a threat to $44 billion of smart grid investment, according to a new report from Frost & Sullivan. The report says Germany, usually at the forefront of energy technology ...
Tags: Smart Grid Industry, Instruments, Meters
Today, for the most part, utilities are recording and storing data from Smart Meters at levels of resolution that are needed for billing, typically at 15 minute, half-hour or hourly intervals. Higher resolution data can provide much more ...
Tags: Instruments, Meters, Smart Meters
Analog semiconductor maker Skyworks Solutions Inc of Woburn, MA, USA is partnering with Asia-based original device manufacturer (ODM) Wistron NeWeb Corp (WNC), which supplies connected home solutions for a number of branded original ...
Tags: Skyworks, Electronics
Sensus, a leading utility infrastructure company, has been selected to provide the core communications technology to support one of the world's largest smart metering projects—the UK government's plan to put smart meters in millions ...
Tags: Smart Grid Deployment, Instruments, Meters
The government has stepped up the process of equipping every home in the UK with smart energy meters by selecting the vendors to provide the kit, the data service and wide area communications, in addition to a smart meter governing ...
Tags: Smart Meter, Instruments
Holtek was pleased to announce the release of its new HT1585 real time clock device complete with fully integrated temperature compensation function. Meeting with the industrial specification requirements of -40℃~ 85℃ operating ...
Tags: Temperature Compensation, Lights, Lighting