Smart Energy News

Metering.com 12 JULY 2016 Smart Energy According to a new report, the smart home M2M market in Western Europe, boosted by the adoption of cloud-based technologies, will grow at a CAGR of over 39% until 2020. The report, put together by market research firm Technavio, states that smart home applications such as home automation, access … Read more

Metering.com 11 JULY 2016 India has inaugurated its first Centre of Excellence for the Internet of Things (CoE-IoT) in Bengaluru last week. The centre is a collaboration between several organisations including Nasscom, Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DeitY) and Education and Research Network (ERNET) under the government’s Digital India initiative. Through the establishment of … Read more

Metering.com 11 JULY 2016 US power and gas utility Consumers Energy announced its plans to complete the deployment of smart meters to all its customers by the end of 2017. To date, the utility has installed 1 million smart electric meters and 200,000 gas communication modules to enhance customer services and ensure accurate power and … Read more

Metering.com 5 JULY 2016 US utility Santa Fe Irrigation District announced its plans to deploy a project to improve its revenue collection and help customers reduce their water usage and costs. The California water utility will replace 7,300 of its existing water meters with smart meters as from August through to 2021 to ensure accurate … Read more

Metering.com 4 JULY 2016 According to a new forecast, the Middle East and Africa (MEA) region will invest more than US$6.6 billion in IoT hardware, software, services, and connectivity this year. In its updated its Worldwide Semiannual Internet of Things Spending Guide, the International Data Corporation (IDC) notes that the utilities industry is the second … Read more

Metering.com 30 JUNE 2016 Smart grid technologies firm Smart Grid Solutions (SGS) said it completed an automated metering infrastructure (AMI) project for US power co-operative Kenergy Corporation In a press statement, SGS said it deployed its project planning platform ProFieldMETER’s DayToute module to help the western customer-owned utility to implement its smart meters project. The … Read more

Wall Street Daily Greg Miller | Jun 29, 2016 Over the past few weeks, I’ve featured a mini-series here on the Smart Home and how it could be on the cusp of widespread adoption. As you probably know by now, Smart Homes are the latest in a string of “Smart” things to enter our lives … Read more

Metering.com 29 JUNE 2016 Hawaiian Electric has partnered with energy storage and cloud-based software provider Stem to manage customer electricity demand of some of its larger energy consumers. The utility has installed Stem’s energy monitoring equipment and software in 250 public schools within its service area. The collaboration with Hawaiian Electric is reported to be … Read more

Metering.com 27 JUNE 2016 Internet of Things Software solutions provider C3 IoT has been selected by the US Department of State to implement energy management and predictive analytics technology. Under the US$25 million multi-year contract, C3 IoT will deploy its IoT enterprise application development platform to assist the US Federal Government to “achieve and maintain … Read more