Awesense, a startup using wireless mesh tech and software, has launched to sell utilities energy theft-prevention. Didn’t know it was such a problem? A Canadian utility has said it’s losing $100 million a year to theft; in India about 30 percent of power is used illegally. Read more »
With many utilities facing the task of storing petabytes of smart meter data for as long as seven years in order to satisfy regulatory requirements, the ability to house and leverage the massive load of data accumulating from the smart grid is a significant IT challenge. Read more »
The ability to house and leverage the massive load of data accumulating from the smart grid is a significant IT challenge. And it isn’t a competency that many utilities have had historically. That market has been fairly staked out at this point, and has relatively finite ... Read more at GigaOM Pro »
