Sensus is the only one of the big five smart meter giants using a licensed star network, rather than an unlicensed mesh network, to connect smart meters. Now it has $675 million in debt financing to expand that technology. Read More »
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Grid Net, the smart grid software maker, has officially moved beyond the wireless standard WiMAX and this morning announced that its software now supports the 4G wireless standard LTE (Long Term Evolution), the dominate next-gen wireless standard embraced by U.S. telcos. Read More »
Intel has made no secret of its ambition for a fat slice of the home energy management market, but here’s the chip maker’s official play: a hardware design blueprint based on its Atom chip for any manufacturer that wants to build and sell home energy monitoring… Read More »
Grid Net, a startup that has built a business around utilizing the wireless standard WiMAX for the smart grid, now has a partnership to make smart grid products with the U.S. carrier that has made the biggest bet on WiMAX: Sprint. Read More »
Who’s trade marking smart grid terms, tag lines, and products? Read More »
The smart grid is a network and one company can’t provide all of the end-to-end gear. That’s why strategic partnerships will be key for companies, particularly startups. This morning Grid Net announced that it’s partnered with software heavyweight Oracle to sell its network and meter management… Read More »
Greenpeace is lauding Apple while chastising Dell this morning. The do-gooders sent out a note pointing out that, while Apple’s iPhone’s are free of chemicals, Dell still hasn’t implemented a previous commitment to eliminate chemicals by the end of 2009. Read More »
HomePlug is linking smart meters with homes over electrical wires, and has a few big smart grid vendors — including General Electric and Grid Net — on board. How will powerline technologies compete with wireless in the smart grid to come? Read More »
One of Australia’s first commercial-scale smart grid projects is moving forward, and it’s leaning heavily on the high-speed next-generation wireless standard WiMAX. Partners include GE, IBM, and WiMAX software provider Grid Net. Read More »
Cisco sees a $20 billion opportunity in the smart grid, and while it may have gotten off a bit late to the party, it’s crashed it in a big way. The networking giant wants to deliver products and services that span the grid. Read More »
Despite the build out of smart grid infrastructure, there’s still a variety questions that remain unanswered when it comes to just what will a next-generation smart grid network look like? Here’s 5 points of debate that we’ll be addressing at our Green:Net conference on April 29: Read More »
Worries over the installation of smart meters isn’t just happening in select cities in the U.S. Last week the government for the Australian state of Victoria declared a moratorium on its plan to roll out 2.5 million smart meters to residents and businesses. Read More »
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