An integrated, two-way communications and networking platform is essential to the Smart Grid. The space is getting crowded as vendors see the handwriting (and stimulus money) on the wall. Those competing include major players in the wireless, cellular, and networking worlds. As you’ll read in this section, some vendors are partnering up to fuse complementary technologies that offer a bigger piece of the total solution.
Results: 205 results found. You are on page 1 of 9 pages.
The smart grid communications space is already noisy and contentious. But a UK company is making the case that we should consider yet another option, this time TV white space. Click for their argument in favor, and our word of caution.
Marketing and advertising companies have been taking advantage of social media for years, and now more and more electric utilities are catching on - using them for their own marketing, communications and business strategies, according to a new white paper from Pike Research. Get more on the story inside.
If you missed or would like to review our recent webinar with Qualcomm on comparing cellular with other smart grid communications technologies, click for links to the video replays and the presentation deck.
Click to watch the first segment of our Jan. 18, 2012 webinar - Comparing Cellular with Other Communication Technologies - presented with Qualcomm as part of the Smart Grid News Lessons from the Real World webinar series. In this segment moderator Jesse Berst introduces the speakers and provides a brief overview. He is followed by Joseph Ho from Qualcomm's R&D team, who shares results from his company's extensive study on cellular in smart grid communications.
Click to watch the second segment of our Jan. 18, 2012 webinar - Comparing Cellular with Other Communication Technologies - presented with Qualcomm as part of the Smart Grid News Lessons from the Real World webinar series. In this segment Joseph Ho from Qualcomm's R&D team continues to share results from his company's extensive study on cellular in smart grid communications.
Click to watch the third segment of our Jan. 18, 2012 webinar - Comparing Cellular with Other Communication Technologies - presented with Qualcomm as part of the Smart Grid News Lessons from the Real World webinar series. In this segment Brian Huey, smart grid specialist at Sprint Nextel, discusses cellular carriers' growth, challenges, partnerships and commitments to supporting smart grid communications.
Click to watch the fourth segment of our Jan. 18, 2012 webinar - Comparing Cellular with Other Communication Technologies - presented with Qualcomm as part of the Smart Grid News Lessons from the Real World webinar series. In this segment Matt Gillmore, Director of Enterprise Architecture and Standards at Consumers Energy, discusses some of the lessons Consumers learned while researching and rolling out their cellular communications project.
Click to watch the fifth segment of our Jan. 18, 2012 webinar - Comparing Cellular with Other Communication Technologies - presented with Qualcomm as part of the Smart Grid News Lessons from the Real World webinar series. In this segment panelists answered questions from webinar participants, ranging from emergency use and peak time prioritization; prioritizing data on a public carrier network; should a utility start with 3G or wait for 4G; percent of down time per year; carrier performance during disasters, and pricing mechanisms used.
Click to watch the sixth and final segment of our Jan. 18, 2012 webinar - Comparing Cellular with Other Communication Technologies - presented with Qualcomm as part of the Smart Grid News Lessons from the Real World webinar series. In this segment panelists answered questions from webinar participants, including how many utilities are using cellular; cellular deployments in other parts of the world; the upgrade timeline for 4G and LTE, and using cellular in conjunction with other technologies.
In this presentation from a Smart Grid News Lessons from the Real World webinar on communications options for the smart grid, you'll see side-by-side comparisons of cellular, RF mesh and PLC.
If Silver Spring Networks' just-announced fourth generation networking technology does everything the company says it can, they've created what utilities have always wanted but didn't know to ask for - any transport. With Gen4, Silver Spring has simultaneously addressed the issues with current RF mesh by increasing its speed and capacity and has also integrated cellular. Click for more on this important development that leapfrogs Silver Spring to the head of the innovation pack.
A tool from GE that spots grid stress sooner and two new security solutions from Tropos Networks are featured in today's installment of our Discovery Showcase series. Click for a look at seven new product releases from some leading smart grid vendors (and a couple you may not have heard of - yet anyway). And a special bonus: A free tool from EPRI that helps you evaluate electricity generation technologies.
Sprint's smart grid ambitions just got a major show of support with the announcement that four companies will directly support its cellular network, including Itron and Silver Spring Networks. SGN Chief Analyst Jesse Berst offers some perspective on what could be on the horizon for cellular communications and the smart grid.
A new partnership between Clevest Solutions (field force automation) and In Motion Technology (field force wireless communications) provides a glimpse of a likely future for utility workers.
These are slides Cisco presented to analysts when the company announced its GridBlocks reference architecture, the focus of which is to provide utilities a single communications platform for all their smart grid needs.
The story of Tantalus illustrates two important trends. One is the proliferation of hybrid, mix-and-match communications systems that combine multiple pathways. The other is the growing focus on municipals and coops as the next frontier for smart grid innovation. Click for a close-up on what this intriguing Vancouver, B.C.-based smart grid communications company is doing - and why.
A major announcement today by networking giant Cisco will propel the smart grid (finally!) into truly plug-and-play, truly interoperable smart grid. Everybody needs to study what it means and quickly or risk being stranded on a proprietary island. Utilities need to decide whether to adopt some or all of the ideas embodied in Cisco's new reference architecture. Vendors need to decide whether to plug into the Cisco world, or to find another home. It's all inside, including details on the framework, on Cisco's new line of business, its new hardware and its intriguing new software.
The communications network is the foundation of a smart grid. Get the network right and you can leverage it for years. Get it wrong and you may hit a performance ceiling. Recently, engineers from Qualcomm studied more than 1,500 smart grid use cases to determine the five most crucial communications issues. Then they tested different technologies against eight different applications (including meter reading, outage management and distribution automation). Click to learn more about the five key issues, about how cellular stacks up and where to get the test results.
Over the years, we've spent a lot of time at Smart Grid News talking about how best to communicate with meters and home area networks. But what about the growing need to communicate with substations, circuit breakers and transformers? As you will see in today's guest column by Andrejs Rozitis of FreeWave Technologies, new communications technologies are transforming that part of the grid as well.
Andres Carvallo and John Cooper are the authors of "The Advanced Smart Grid," the best book yet about technical and organizational strategies for the smart grid. In this article adaptation, they explain how the increasing pace of change demands that you design your network a different way. Click to read how to adapt your communications network to the new realities.
There's a reason the industry has been watching Silver Spring Networks' pending IPO with great interest. According to SGN Chief Analyst Jesse Berst, a successful IPO would validate the space, quell some of the concerns about a sector slowdown, and improve the prospects of other smart grid companies. But is SSN poised for success? Click inside for an inside view of the company's strengths and challenges.
After the historic storm that clobbered Northeastern states last month, utilities got a lot of criticism for being too slow in their response to restore service. Jonas Olsen of On-Ramp Wireless has some thoughts on how utilities can be better prepared for the next natural disaster. Click inside for his insights.
Cisco is in the smart grid for keeps. That message was delivered in spades this week when the company gathered analysts to reveal its latest thinking, initiatives and next steps in the smart grid space. SGN Chief Analyst Jesse Berst was there, and he liked what we heard. Click inside for nine reasons why.
A South Korean smart metering company tapped On-Ramp Wireless to deploy its AMI solution in conjunction with a South Korean telecom service provider. What does On-Ramp's win say about exporting smart grid technologies?
The obituary for power line communications has been written several times, and in the U.S. the technology has generally been considered a second string player when compared to RF communications. So when we had the chance to sit down with a representative from a company that embraces both, we jumped on it. Click inside for the story.
We're getting mixed signals about the vitality of the smart grid market. On the one hand, the recent DistribuTECH conference was one of the most successful ever. On the other, a well-known Wall Street analyst recently told his clients that the smart metering sector is "facing several headwinds," including weak regulatory support in the U.S. and delays in European adoption. Taking the pulse of the smart grid industry is this week's Tuesday Topic.
Twitter
Facebook
Linkedin
RSS
