If you follow the energy sector, you’d be aware that the word “smart” gets bandied about quite a lot. Smart meters, smart cities and smart grids are all the rage. New South Wales based retailer and distributor EnergyAustralia has picked up a neat $100M as the winning bidder for the "Smart Grid, Smart City" project.
Logica has followed up its October 2009 survey the smart grid industry in Australia with new survey that shows significant progress in the last 12 months but identifies massive challenges for the energy sector in developing the more intimate customer relationships and developing the new business models that smart grids will engender.
Written by: Graeme Philipson | Published in: NetworkingA new IDC report predicts a nearly $2 billion annual spend on ICT by Australia’s utility sector by 2015, boosted by Smart Grid investments.
Ericsson has told a who's who of spectrum specialists from the telecoms and broadcasting industries at the ACMA's Radcomms 2011 conference that digital TV broadcasts, which in the US take up 300MHz of spectrum, could be delivered over LTE networks using Multimedia Broadcast/Multicast Service (MBMS) technology in just 28 percent of this spectrum.
Digi International announced a ZigBee-based home energy gateway that runs Linux on a Freescale i.MX28 processor. Compliant with the upcoming Smart Energy 2.0 standard, the & ConnectPort X2e for Smart Energy& enables ZigBee devices on a Home Area Network (HAN) to communicate with an energy service provider, says the company....
Written by: Peter Dinham | Published in: DealsSmart energy networks provider, Silver Spring Networks, has been selected by New Zealand utility, Unison, to deploy its smart grid platform across an area in the north island covering Hawke’s Bay, Rotorua and Taupo.
Written by: Peter Dinham | Published in: DealsSmart energy networks provider, Silver Spring Networks, has been selected by New Zealand utility, Unison, to deploy its smart grid platform across an area in the north island covering Hawke’s Bay, Rotorua and Taupo.
Most forecasts for mobile broadband data are for exponential growth driven by increasingly smart devices and video services. The ACMA, however expects demand to peak in 2018 by which time short range wireless technologies accessing fibre to the premises networks will be easing demand for spectrum.
Integrating Renewable Electricity on the Grid report urges for solutions regarding energy storage, long-distance transmission and forecasting
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