Today’s CIO is very aware of the need to move toward a more connected enterprise, but a lack of industry-wide knowledge and effective use cases are inhibiting implementation and even strategy. Read more »
The British smart home outfit AlertMe has a long history with British Gas – back in 2009 it scored its first trial with the country’s biggest energy supplier, and in 2012… Read more »
Huawei sees an opportunity in the industrial internet of things, so its buying a U.K. company specializing in sensor and meter networking for a reported $25 million. Read more »
TV white spaces haven’t emerged as global networking band like Weightless had hoped. So now it’s planning to build its internet-of-things connectivity network on the same industrial bands used by ZigBee,… 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 »
Innovation is alive and well around energy data, thanks to a series of initiatives and programs. Meet Ohmconnect, a bootstrapped startup that couldn’t have existed a couple years ago. 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 »
Analytics, sensors, networking — Utilidata is bringing the tools of IT to the last mile of the power grid and in the process could make it operate more efficiently. Read more »