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 ...
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Smarter, more efficient electricity meters aim to revolutionise energy distribution but WA researchers fear hackers could easily exploit numerous security flaws and wreck havoc on power grids. Smart meters measure a customer's electricity ...
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Siemens, in partnership with Green Energy Options (GEO), has launched a solution for the deployment of smart meters in multi-dwellings, also known as multi-dwelling units (MDUs). These buildings, often high-rise, present a challenge for ...
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Sustainability and low energy solutions provider, Inteb, has issued a six-month warning to businesses still currently operating with traditional rather than smart meters. By April 2014, all Profile Class 05-08 electricity meters and all ...
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IDG News Service - Researchers at the University of South Carolina have discovered that some types of electricity meter are broadcasting unencrypted information that, with the right software, would enable eavesdroppers to determine whether ...
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IBM's latest mainframe, the zEnterprise EC12, was built with data analytics and hybrid clouds in mind. And that's good, analysts say, because the company must focus on new applications like those to ensure that its workhorse data center ...
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Paradox Engineering SA and Streetlight.Vision will have agreed to develop new Smart City solutions with Smart Streetlight management. These solutions will use the 'internet of thing' approach to enable municipalities to monitor all objects ...
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A major trial of smart metering technologies will be carried out in the Ipswich area to test long-range radio communications networks for connecting smart meters to energy providers. The trial is being carried out by Scottish Power, ...
Computerworld - Researchers at the University of South Carolina have discovered that some types of electricity meters broadcast unencrypted information that eavesdroppers with the right software could use to determine whether you're at home ...
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Smart electricity metering system design is looking to use completely novel power supply topologies,writes Tolga Aydemir. Smart electricity meters are big news a with cost savings promised for suppliers and consumers a but they ...
Tags: Smart Meters, Electrical&Electronics, SMPS, PSU, MOSFETS
German cement maker HeidelbergCement is getting its energy costs under control and is raising prices, allowing the company to predict profitability will remain at least on last year s level when it was among the highest in the industry. ...
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