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Some customers are opposed to smart meters
Feb 06 - The Ledger - A lot of people may not even know about smart meters, the new devices installed by Lakeland Electric that allow people to monitor their electrical usage in real time. More...
SAIC Provides Smart Grid as a Service Offering to Four Alaskan Villages
SAIC Energy, Environment & Infrastructure, LLC - Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) [NYSE: SAI] was awarded a contract by Intelligent Energy Systems (IES) for smart grid infrastructure solutions for four Alaskan villages. more...
Oracle Utilities Meter-to-Cash Applications Running on Oracle Exadata Database Machine and Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud Demonstrate Unprecedented Throughput for 10 Million Interval Meters
Oracle - Oracle announced the unprecedented ability to process more than one billion records and generate 500,000 customer bills within an eight-hour nightly window using Oracle Utilities Customer Care and Billing, Oracle Utilities Meter Data Management and Oracle Utilities Smart Grid Gateway - integrated using Oracle Application Integration Architecture and running on Oracle Exadata Database Machine X2-2 and Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud X2-2. more...
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Cooper Power Systems Yukon Software 5.3 Enhances Functionality for Two-Way Devices and Demand Response
Cooper Power Systems - The Cooper Power Systems Yukon Advanced Energy Services software platform release 5.3 continues the company's commitment to a Smarter Grid with the enhanced functionality. more...
Smart meter opt-out programs spread across North America; new Chartwell report details various efforts
Chartwell Inc. - To defuse opposition from smart meter foes and allow utility companies to move forward with grid modernization plans, utility leaders may have to consider creating smart meter opt-out programs regardless of the validity of opponents' concerns about health, safety and privacy, according to Chartwell's latest industry report, Smart Meter Opt-Out Programs 2012. more...
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Is Your Infrastructure Ready for Smart Metering? - Part 5 (The Final Chapter)

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Cyberthreats Recognized by FBI

Blogger Photo By Ernie Hayden - On January 31st FBI Director Robert Mueller and National Intelligence Director James Clapper noted in a US Senate hearing that more...

Is Your Infrastructure Ready for Smart Metering? – Part 4

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DistribuTECH - Smart Grid and SCADA: They Both Need Security

Blogger Photo By Ernie Hayden - After perusing the online version of the DistribuTECH 2012 program, I was pleased to see that the topic of security more...

DistribuTECH - A Communications Revolution

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Smart Metering: Getting the Consumer Onside

By Jim Hayward
In this article, Jim Hayward and David Wing, of Baringa Partners, share their thoughts on what suppliers must learn from consumer psychology (and history) to ensure smart meter roll outs succeed.

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Filed Under Metering

MDM in Cloud Computing

By Ashish Gupta
Cloud computing has brought in radical change in the way IT infrastructure (compute, storage and network) can be provisioned on demand from a shared pool and charged on pay per use model. This results in more...
Filed Under Metering

Smart Meter Marketing

By Kenneth Smith
Let's face it. Most consumers really don't care about electricity per se, except those of us who work in the industry. Just like most consumers really don't care about hand tools, except serious do-it-yourselfers and more...
Filed Under Metering

De-Mystifying AMI Infrastructure Management

By Manish Kumar Pandey
AMI Infrastructure management is critical to utilities business to ensure higher network availability, secure communications and have a framework to effectively manage smart metering infrastructure with the ability to scale. As utilities are busy deploying more...
Filed Under Metering

Getting the Best Value Smart Meter for Your Money

By Mark Englad
Utilities and governments must think ahead when planning a smart meter roll-out -- early obsolescence is an expensive error. Customize and build in future-proofing to stay ahead of the game advises Mark England, CEO, Sentec. more...
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