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SmartSynch Inc will provide City Utilities of Springfield, Missouri, with a complete smart metering solution for participating commercial and industrial customers on its system. The solution will include smart meters, as well as a communications platform and head-end system. Later this spring, City Utilities will begin deploying SmartSynch’s IP-enabled
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Baltimore Gas and Electric Company (BGE) has selected energy management software company OPOWER to help with its coming smart meter rollout. BGE will deploy OPOWER’s Advanced Customer Engagement (ACE) platform with the goal of eventually reaching 1.2 million residential and small-business customers through an array of communication channels.
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Talquin Electric Cooperative, Florida’s fifth largest distribution electrical cooperative, is implementing Sensus technologies for its advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) and smart metering program. The program will serve all 54,000 residential, commercial and industrial members in Talquin’s 2,600-square-mile territory. The co-op is in the process of installing
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Currently available literature indicates that exposure to RF energy from smart meters should be less than that experienced by routine mobile or cell phone use. That’s one of the conclusions reached in a recent study by the Monterey County Health Department’s Public Health Bureau, Epidemiology and Evaluation. Other
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Onzo’s Smart Energy Kit has been chosen as the only energy display to be rolled out to households in Amsterdam, as part of a pioneering project to make people more aware of their energy use. Under the Sustainable Neighbourhood project, 500 homes in the northwest district of the Dutch
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DTE Energy has announced plans to install an additional 350,000 electric meters to provide the backbone for its SmartCurrents program, which will allow electric customers to communicate with the company, provide detailed information about their energy usage and recognise power outages without customer input. The meters incorporate technology that
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Veolia Water and Orange are joining forces in the smart metering sector and are launching m2o city, an operator specialised in remote environmental data and water meter reading services. Building on the expertise of Veolia Water — which already operates over 200,000 water meters — and Orange’s expertise as a
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It feels like centuries ago, but it still wasn’t hard in the late ’90s to find people — even educated professionals and experienced entrepreneurs — who wouldn’t promote their businesses with a website or use email for fear of having too much private information become public and freely available to
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Metering firm Iskraemeco is establishing a foothold in Russia, which is deploying smart meters and other technologies to comply with a regulatory framework that came into effect in 2009. Pilot projects paving the way for future smart metering rollouts are currently on the way across Russia. Among the cities in
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Itron has started the delivery of 120,000 smart water meters to Malta’s Water Services Corporation (WSC), as part of a contract that will continue through 2013. To date, 25,000 Itron water meters and communication modules to be connected to the existing Ondeo Systems’ smart metering solution have
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British Columbia-based PortaOne has released PortaMDM, a meter data management and billing software platform for electricity, gas, water and sewer utilities. Compatible with all major brands of smart meters, PortaMDM is a unified, real-time billing and SCADA (supervisory control and data acquisition) application for smart metering networks. PortaMDM is designed
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Telefónica O2 UK has signed a multi-million-pound contract with G4S Utility Services, a security solutions group and smart-meter operations service provider, to simplify the remote management and monitoring of the company’s smart-meter network in Britain. The new partnership marks Telefónica O2 UK’s first move into the smart metering
