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[ZDNet Asia Latest Tech News] Aust budget '09: Smart grids get US$76.5M : News : Business ...: Conroy also announced the Do Not Call Register, which attempts to block telemarketing nuisances, would be expanded, receiving A$4.7 million (US$3.6 million) over four years to widen its scope, after the minister received a number of requests directly from the public on the matter.

[SmartGridNews.com] Smart Grid: ZigBee Alliance embraces an Internet protocol standard ...: As Southern California Edison VP Paul De Martini told Sensors, “This activity creates a win-win for everyone by combining the strengths of the ZigBee Smart Energy standard with the ubiquity of Internet standards and confirms that smart meter deployments currently under way will have a seamless path for continuous upgrades, including Internet connectivity.”

[Net Traveller] Net Traveller: Smart grids don't need high speed broadband: While such "Smart grids" can make power use more efficient with monitoring and automatic adjustment of processes which use power, they do not require broadband. Only a very limited amount of data is needed to do this, what is needed is not broadband but reliable, widespread data access.

[Frost.com - Information and Communication Technologies Research] Frost & Sullivan Predicts Significant Economic Benefits From ...: Competition from current high speed offerings, such as high speed cable access and ADSL2+ broadband which are now becoming more widely available, will also have some impact on the potential NBN subscriber base. Although typical average speeds through these offerings are far lower than the potential 100Mbps that will be available via the completed NBN, full implementation of the NBN is many years off and the lower speeds will be sufficient for a significant section of population over the next five to ten years.

[CNET Australia] National broadband network to cut power bills: Conroy - Broadband: The opposition remains critical of the broadband plan, with communications spokesman Nick Minchin scoffing at Senator Conroy's claims about the network's contribution to the climate change fight.

[Think Green Alliance] Think Green Alliance » Blog Archive » Australian Minister for ...: It is also likely that the Australian R&E network AARnet will play a critical role in the deployment of the nation’s broadband strategy. Being a facilities based R&E network (i.e it owns the underlying fiber) gives AARnet considerable flexibility and adaptability to such opportunities.

[Greentech Media | News Feed] Greentech Media: Tropos: WiFi for the Smart Grid: The Sunnyvale, Calif.-based municipal WiFi networking startup has seen a number utilities use the networks it has installed over the years, including as a way to link the devices that aggregate data from thousands of two-way communicating "smart meters" with the utilities' back-office systems.

[Talking About Green] Australian Minister for Broadband speaks about broadband and ...: One couple, early adopters of a pilot smart grid in Miami, claim they are saving $100 a month simply by keeping an eye on their digital energy meter.

[SmartGridToday.com] Australia's FTTP plans include smart grid: The Australian government's proposed National Broadband Network -- an FTTP project -- could deliver significant long-term .(to read the remainder of this article, please log in below.) .

[BuddeBlog] BuddeBlog » Blog Archive » Analysis of the National Broadband ...: One last point is that the state governments and councils are in the middle of the Internet sandwich so watch out for those political infrastructures. My guess is that within 20 years the public will vote to dissemble the state and councils and replace them with something greater, and that doesn’t mean physical size as it will be based on logical matters and those include global warming issues;

[Free Sydney Wireless - SydneyFreeNet] Meshing cars on the grid » Free Sydney Wireless - SydneyFreeNet: It reminds me of a discussion we had with Richard Hayes at one of the Sydney BarCamps about smart meters in a mesh network.

[Perceptric Forum] Perceptric Forum :: Tomorrow - Australia Decides its Broadband Future: To achieve Smart Cities and Smart Homes will require much more than major investments in new physical and information infrastructure. This presentation will present some built environment perspectives on the sustainability challenges that people now face in cities that were built under different assumptions for energy, water and climate regimes.

[sourcefrog] sourcefrog: Stephen Conroy's facile argument for the NBN: If Conroy's concerned about the environment he ought to consider the hefty power consumption of filtering all Australian internet traffic. He hasn't given a straight answer on just how much filtering he proposes to do, but the great-firewall-of-China style filtering he sometimes alludes to would mean hundreds or thousands of servers, therefore probably hundreds of kilowatts and tons of CO2.

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