smart grid

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil – Former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, sustainability leader Gro Harlem Brundtland, media billionaire and philanthropist Ted Turner, and 150 VIP guests celebrated success for PowerMatching City at Rio+20, the UN Conference on Sustainable Development in Rio de Janeiro, the launch of Sustainia100.

IMS Research, recently acquired by IHS Inc. (NYSE:IHS), reports that the market for distribution automation and smart grid networking hardware in the Americas is anticipated to grow to nearly $1.7 billion in 2012.

Skanderborg & Viborg, Denmark. June 19, 2012 — In the wake of the first ever European Energy Efficiency Deal last week targeting a 15% energy saving by 2020, Kamstrup and GridManager have today announced that they will integrate GridManager’s Demand/Response solution, targeted industrial customers, with Kamstrup’s Advanced Metering Infrastructure system.

Paris, France. June 18, 2012 – Ambient Corporation, a provider of secure, flexible and scalable smart grid communications and applications, has released the latest version of its network management system, AmbientNMS®. This is a purpose-built suite of integrated software applications for real-time fault, performance analysis, and reporting

Boulder, Colorado, USA. June 14, 2012 – FreeWave Technologies, Inc., manufacturer of spread spectrum and licensed radios for critical data transmission, has been awarded the American Technology Award (ATA) for outstanding achievement in the Smart Grid and Smart Instrument category. The award is for the FGR2-PE wireless data radio.

ILS Technology has announced that Acclaim Energy Advisors has chosen its deviceWISE M2M Application Platform to support their solution to potential power shortfalls in the state of Texas.

Arnhem, The Netherlands – All 26 partners of the Smart Energy Collective have signed a renewed coop-eration agreement approval the second phase of its smart grid initiative, which involves the development of five large-scale smart grid demonstration projects in the Netherlands.

M2M Now magazine explores the evolving opportunities and challenges facing CSPs across this sector. And in our exclusive interviews will pass on some of the lessons learned by those who have taken the first steps in next gen M2M services.

Transense Technologies plc (“Transense”) (AIM: TRT), a provider of sensor systems for the transportation and industrial markets, has announced that its trading division, IntelliSAW, a provider of next generation wireless sensor systems for smart grid applications, has entered into an exclusive distribution agreement with EL PE Engineers (“EL PE”), headquartered in Vadodara, India.

Event date: 22nd October 2012 Sheraton Park Lane Hotel in London GridComms is the global Smart Grid event focused on opportunities for collaboration and innovation between the telecommunications and utilities industries with the common greater good of building and securing Smart Grid networks.

DN2K, developers of advanced remote monitoring, machine-to-machine (M2M) and management systems, has announced that it has received significant funding from a group of private investors to help with growth and expansion into global oil and gas, agriculture, smart grid and electric power industries.

New TV white space technology could help to fill the communications gap and realise the vision of a global smart grid, believes Cambridge-based TTP, an independent technology development company.

Siemens Industry, Inc. will buy eMeter Corporation this month, subject to necessary approvals and customary closing conditions. The parties will not disclose the terms of the agreement.

Cable&Wireless Worldwide and Silver Spring Networks have announced that they have been selected by UK Power Networks as telecommunications partners for its forthcoming Flexible Plug and Play (FPP) Low Carbon Networks project.

The advanced water metering market, estimated at about 5.5 million global shipments in 2010, and anticipated to be roughly 10 million shipments annually in 2016, continues to increase its product share, particularly in North America.

The security vulnerabilities facing the electrical grid have been a major topic of discussion as utilities around the world forge ahead with their smart grid deployment initiatives, which utilise information and communication technologies to improve the operating efficiency of the grid.