Sequentric Energy Systems, announced it has supplied its demand management hardware and software to Groton Electric Light Department of Groton, Massachusetts, for its smart grid deployment. The 2011 roll-out follows the successful pilot project initiated last summer to test the equipment, the installation process, customer acceptance and demand management performance.
Ember the connected home solutions provider has declared 2010 has its best year yet. With over 10 million ZigBee chips shipped last year, they have become the first to have shipped that amount in one year. Ember attributes their growth to the strategic partnerships that they have formed and the increase in smart meter implementation worldwide. Their main areas of growth were in North America and Europe mainly the UK where the country’s main utility supplier British Gas is planning to provide a million customers with smart electricity and gas meters.
Palmchip has release a new AcurX51 SoC platform for the smart grid connectivity and home area network (HAN) solutions industry. The new AcurX51 is based on a customised version of the Intel 8051 processor core, which allows it to fit into environment that already has existing 8051 software tools. It was designed with the green and smart grid community in mind; it is energy efficient, low cost and enables devices to be remotely managed.
Tropos Networks, the leader in high reliability wireless IP networks for smart grids, today introduced its GridCom 2.0 architecture and product offerings for smart grid communications. For the first time, utilities can seamlessly integrate and manage an optimal blend of high performance wireless network technologies which both meets their smart grid communication requirements and is economical.
Tropos Networks, today introduced its GridCom 2.0 architecture and product offerings for smart grid communications. For the first time, utilities can seamlessly integrate and manage an optimal blend of high performance wireless network technologies which both meets their smart grid communication requirements and is economical.
New Hampshire Electric Cooperative (NHEC) has contracted with Green Mountain Communications (GMC) of Pembroke, NH to furnish and deploy the microwave communications infrastructure that will support the cooperative’s Smart Grid project.
Green Energy Corporation, a software technology company that enables traditional and power providers to move to the Smart Grid, announced that it has launched the Total Grid open source community.According to a release, this Green Energy Corporation sponsored community fosters collaboration by allowing developers to contribute and use Smart Grid related software.
According to a release, this Green Energy Corporation sponsored community fosters collaboration by allowing developers to contribute and use Smart Grid related software.