While Americans bicker about whether or not smart meters work (or give you cancer), Europe has plans to install more than 100 million in the next few years. Now we can see what a smart grid looks like.READ»
To get a truly smart grid, everything must be smart. The next step, smart water meters that monitor your water use and let utilities pinpoint the exact location of leaks.READ»
The Smart Grid's eco- and money-saving powers may be a bit of a media-darling topic at the moment, but did you ever ponder what tech makes this all work? ARM is leading the game. Which may mean Apple could play too. Here's why.This ...READ»
Microsoft, which is invested in the Smart Grid with its own Microsoft Hohm energy monitoring app, recently surveyed about 200 utilities to get some insight on how fast smart meters and other Smart Grid developments are being rolled ...READ»
As with all wirelessly-connected electronic devices, smart meters--and in turn, the smart grid--are vulnerable to hackers. And if the smart grid is hacked, well, there goes the neighborhood's (or the city's) power. CNN recently ...READ»
Last month we predicted that tweeting smart meters wouldn't become popular in the United States. Perhaps we spoke too soon. Smart meter manufacturing company SmartSynch teamed up with the University of Mississippi today to design an ...READ»
Sorry, United States. We may be rolling out smart meters like there's no tomorrow, but Germany's Yello Strom utility is introducing the quirkiest smart metering application yet: a program that tweets customers' energy consumption. ...READ»
Miami is the fourth largest city in the U.S., and possibly the next big smart meter-equipped city--if Florida Power & Light's (FPL) ambitious project is completed. Miami-Dade county announced yesterday morning a $200 million ...READ»
The smart grid has been getting lots of press lately, with companies like AT&T, Verizon, and Google getting involved in energy monitoring at the same time that utilities across the U.S. are installing smart meters in customers' ...READ»
The other day at the Green:Net 09 conference, I spoke to someone who predicted that home-energy management systems would never take off until we could easily have a remote control to automate home appliances. Verizon may have been ...READ»
