Smart grid data analytics are a key sector of the Industrial Internet of Things (IoT), with the potential to help utilities address key operational, financial, and customer challenges. Read more »
Smart grid networking company Silver Spring Networks announced on Wednesday that it plans to acquire startup Detectent, which has developed data analytics for utilities. Utilities have slowly been adopting data tools… Read more »
The Swedish firm wants to use Ambient’s technology for allowing smart grid communication over different kinds of connection — and at a reported $7.5 million, the company was arguably a steal. Read more »
I spent last week at Cisco’s Executive Symposium, which included just over a hundred CIOs from around the world exploring how the Internet of Everything was going to change every sector,… Read more »
California utility PG&E announced in April that among its customer base, a whopping 115,000 homes or buildings are now rooftop solar. The utility is adding 2,500 rooftop solar customers a month,… Read more »
For a recent Gigaom Research report, I looked at how big data and machine to machine (M2M) communication was impacting the energy industry (“Internet of things: the influcence of M2M data… Read more »
While the smart-grid sector and the oil and gas sector have a multitude of differences, they share a common trend: Both are adopting M2M to help lower costs and drive efficiencies… Read more »