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Katie Fehrenbacher Jul 12, 2011 (Jun 8, 2020) -- Blog Post

What your utility doesn’t want you to see: A smart meter teardown

OK, maybe hacker-types shouldn't see this, but the iFixit crew has done a teardown of an Elster smart meter, pulling off all the electronics, chips, radios and casing.…

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Jeff St. John May 19, 2011 (Jun 8, 2020) -- Blog Post

Sensus Lands $675M for Star — not Mesh — Smart Grid

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.…

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Jeff St. John Feb 16, 2011 (Jun 8, 2020) -- Blog Post

Smart Meters: Cheap in the South, but Coasts Will Cost

A study has found that Southern utilities could be able to pay back the costs of smart meters a lot faster and more easily than East and West coast utilities. How do regional grid differences play out in real life?…

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Jeff St. John Nov 22, 2010 (Jun 8, 2020) -- Blog Post

Despite Hurdles, Smart Meters Still Ramping Up Fast

Despite some setbacks, the U.S. smart meter push is continuing at a stimulus-fueled pace. Pike Research reported Monday that more than 90 U.S. utilities have 57.9 million smart meters planned and on the way.That's 7.9 million more than eMeter counted up.…

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Jeff St. John Sep 15, 2010 (Jun 8, 2020) -- Blog Post

Meter Granddaddy Elster Seeks IPO

Look out, smart meter startups with IPO dreams — the granddaddy of power metering is plugging into the public markets. Elster Group, the German electric, gas and water metering giant founded in 1848, announced this week that it was filing to go public.…

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Jeff St. John Sep 8, 2010 (Jun 8, 2020) -- Blog Post

Cisco’s Smart Grid Plans For Arch Rock

There’s been plenty of digital ink spilled about Cisco’s purchase of Arch Rock, and its partnership with Itron. But there are other aspects to Cisco’s big smart meter push that bear some study, including the future of Arch Rock’s data center tech.…

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Katie Fehrenbacher Jul 25, 2010 (Jun 5, 2020) -- Blog Post

Proprietary Smart Grid Tech Will Reign For Years

Despite all of the rhetoric around, and government support for, a U.S. standards-based smart grid, proprietary communications technology will reign supreme for years to come, according to a report out from Pike Research.…

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