If You Can't Beat Them, Join Them
Plan to attend the “Preparing for Municipal Competition and Collaboration” panel discussion at RTIME, Sunday, February 21 at 10:00 am or 1:30 pm. Ben Humphrey and Dan Olsen of Finley Engineering join in a discussion with Curtis Dean of SmartSource Consulting and Doug Dawson of CCG Consulting.
Panel Description: If you can’t beat them, join them, and do it well. How can you work with the right players to get sensible solutions heard before the municipal ship has sailed? If the ship has already sailed, learn how you can capitalize on work that comes out of municipal proposals and plans. Read more...
Chattanooga EPB Smart Grid First to Earn Green Business PEER Certificate
Chattanooga municipal utility EPB may no longer be the nation’s only operator of a citywide gigabit network. But it’s still finding ways to distinguish itself. Read more...
Wi-Fi HaLow Targets IoT Applications
The emerging 802.11ah long-range low-power Wi-Fi standard now has a name: The WiFi Alliance on January 4 announced that the technology would now be called Wi-Fi HaLow. Read more...
IPv6 Reaches 10% Deployment
For a comprehensive update on IPv6 deployment, we suggest you read ARStechnic.com’s article regarding deployment reaching 10% and an interesting overview of the design of IPv6 and compatibility, or lack thereof, with IPv4. If you want the summary of all the information available, give us a call and we can discuss how IPv6 fits into your future. Read more...
Smartphone Obsession: Americans Increasingly Depend on Smartphones for Everyday Life
An obsession with mobile devices is changing American lifestyles. U.S. smartphone and tablet ownership rates are 9 and 10 percent higher than they were a year ago, and device owners are using them more frequently and for a widening variety of purposes – for navigation while driving, managing home energy use and devices, making financial payments, and monitoring health and lifestyle attributes, according to the U.S. edition of Deloitte’s 2015 Global Mobile Consumer Survey. Read more...
Smart Meter Installations to Exceed 1 Billion by 2020
The installed bases of electrical, gas and water meters are all getting smarter – and healthy growth lies ahead in the smart meter market, according to ABI Research. The global installed base of smart meters will grow to exceed 1.1 billion within the next five years, ABI estimates in its ¨Utilities and Smart Grid¨ report. Read more...
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