The Demand Response Coordinating Committee (DRCC) announced today that it is changing its membership structure in accordance with the services it will now provide as a professional membership society. Reflecting this new focus, the DRCC has changed its name to the Association for Demand Response & Smart Grid (ADS).
Landis+Gyr is the global industry leader in energy management solutions and smart metering, and has one of the broadest portfolios of products and services for the electricity, gas, and heat markets. Landis+Gyr products and solutions empower utilities and end-consumers to improve their energy efficiency, reduce energy costs and contribute to a sustainable use of resources.
When some of us in the West can brag about having 50M broadband and can only talk about 100M, South Korea is planning to give its citizen broadband speed some of us can only dream of. According to the New York Times South Korea is moving it broadband speed up another level to one gigabit per second. The country is piloting the project at the moment and hope to have it completely rolled out by the end of 2012.
IBM has rolled out a new range of monitoring and analytic software that will help core infrastructure providers manage their systems. The applications, according to IBM aim to advance smarter cities and industry transformation across water, energy, transportation and healthcare. Connected to a network of sensors, 4G wireless networks, RFID tags, smart grid network, real-time information can be collected to understand system status and the ability to monitor and analyse new streams of data.
Echelon in collaboration with Eltel has won a $16 Million smart grid solutions contract with Demark’s largest utility company NRGi. According to Echelon NRGi has selected their Networked Energy Services (NES) smart grid control system for its customers throughout its services territory. The solution features Echelon’s award winning software, which provides monitoring, application control and sensing for low voltage grid and smart meters. It is expected to serve approximately 150,000 NRGi homes and business customers.
SECO Energy, one of the largest electric cooperatives in the US has selected Sensus as its smart grid technology provider. Sensus will provide the Florida cooperative its FlexNet Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) communications network and more than 172,000 electric meters equipped with remote connect and disconnect capabilities.
ABB, the global power and automation technology group, announced recently it has received an order of over 75 GridShield reclosers for a U.S. Department of Energy Stimulus-funded smart grid project for Cuming and Stanton County Public Power in eastern Nebraska.
Netgem, will outline its "IPTV 2.0" strategy at the upcoming IP&TV World Forum in London and demonstrate its new Home Cloud software platform. Also as part of the IP&TV World Forum's conference programme, Christophe Aulnette, Netgem's CEO, will highlight Netgem's open strategy. He will deliver Netgem's vision for the future of TV in a Leadership Insight session, "Connected TVs - IPTV 2.0: the Home Cloud" on Wednesday 23rd March.
Echelon Corporation announced that after completing a rigorous public tender process, the fourth largest utility in Denmark, NRGi, has selected Echelon’s Networked Energy Services (NES) smart grid control system throughout its services territory. The system includes the award-winning Echelon software for sensing, monitoring and control applications for the low voltage grid and smart meters for nearly 150,000 homes and businesses.
Archos has launched a new web radio called Arnova as an addition to its internet Android tablets. The new digital home appliance was designed to the web via your home wireless network. The Arnova allows you to tune in to over 12,000 web radio stations and more than 1,500 web TV stations and video podcasts from around the world.