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[Earth2Tech] Smart Grid Firm Trilliant Finds a Deal in Old Muni Wi-Fi Firm: SkyPilot makes wireless mesh network gear that is basically a souped-up version of Wi-Fi. In addition, Miller claims SkyPilot’s wireless network backhaul option is significantly cheaper than cellular or the wireless standard WiMAX, and can provide a return on investment for a variety of smart grid applications in less than a year.

[MATTER - Clean Technology, Green and Sustainable News] Trilliant Acquires SkyPilot Networks to Streamline Smart Grid ...: * Lower recurring cost than cellular machine-to-machine (M2M) plans offered by major wireless carriers like AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, and T-Mobile * Lower capex than WiMAX, with longer range * Lower capex and longer range than competing Metro Wi-Fi solutions such as the GridCom architecture recently announced by Tropos Networks * More standardized technology than competing RF mesh networking platforms, including those offered by smart meter vendors as well as third-party providers

[SmartGridNews.com] Smart Grid: Trilliant Acquisition Signals Next Phase of Smart Grid ...: Mesh Wi-Fi uses low-power, omnidirectional antennas, which create a low-cost system with redundancy and high availability. If an access point can’t talk to the collector, it simply passes the message along to another nearby access point and so on until the message reaches the collector for backhaul to the control center.

[Greentech Media: Headlines] Greentech Media: Trilliant Buys SkyPilot for End-to-End Smart Grid ...: Cisco Systems will probably be looking for companies to acquire or partner with to meet its goal of providing a broad range of smart grid networking services. Other IT giants entering the field may be doing the same (see Cisco Wants to Be Everywhere in the Smart Grid and Oracle Launches "End-to-End" Smart Grid Software).

[Wi-Fi Technology Forum | Wireless Networking, Mobile Internet News and Reviews] Smart Grid and Wireless Networking, CONNECTION Conference Main Focus: Santa Clara, CA -/Wi-Fi Technology News/- Leading research firm Parks Associates announced the speakers for the Home Controls and Energy Management track at CONNECTIONS™, which includes an opening keynote from Austin Energy's CIO. Multiple sessions at the conference set to feature executives from energy-focused companies discussing new innovations in home monitoring and controls, Smart Grid initiatives, and wireless home controls.

[Northloop Neighborhoods - Community News & Directory] Trilliant buys broadband wireless for smart grid | Northloop ...: Smart grid networking company Trilliant buys SkyPilot Networks, which did municipal Wi-Fi, so it can build a broadband network from a home's smart meter back to utilities.

[Supossably] Trilliant buys broadband wireless for smart grid | Supossably: Smart grid networking company Trilliant buys SkyPilot Networks, which did municipal Wi-Fi, so it can build a broadband network from a home’s smart meter back to utilities.

[SmartGridNews.com] Smart Grid: DOE workshop convenes grid simulation and modeling ...: The company’s vice president of corporate market development, Ashish Sharma, told Earth2Tech how Alvarion’s WiMAX gear was used to collect data from a smart meter and transfer it to a utility’s back office application. At this time, the Tel Aviv, Israel-based Alvarion is not disclosing its partners in these projects.

[WIMAX - WiMax.com Blog] Introducing "Private Mobile WiMAX" ”” WIMAX: New electrical utility smart grid and other vertical applications are placing ever-increasing demands on existing data networks. Starting initially with smart meters, electric utilities are needing to use their existing data networks for new mission critical distribution automation applications - including re-routing power in real-time from one geography to another where it is needed most.

[PR Hub] The ZigBee Alliance and European Smart Metering Industry Group ...: SAN RAMON, California - World's leading low-power wireless networking standard adds new specification featuring seamless integration with global IT networks to portfolioThe ZigBee Alliance, a global ecosystem of companies creating standardized wireless solutions for use in energy management, commercial and consumer applications, today announced it will incorporate global IT standards from the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) into its specification portfolio of low-power wireless networking standards. This move will expand the growing portfolio of successful ZigBee specifications and should further advance the rapid growth of Smart Grid applications that have widely adopted the proven ZigBee Smart Energy public application profile.

[Low Impact Living] Low Impact Living » Blog Archive » ZigBee-Powered Smart Grids ...: Unfortunately, there aren’t that many consumer-oriented ZigBee products available yet, but that’s likely to change. Utilities are already beginning to install ZigBee-enabled smart electricity meters on homes and apartments throughout the country, so expect to see products that communicate with them soon.

[Zigbee News by FreakLabs] Freaklabs - Open Source Zigbee Blog - 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'

[Smart Grid Blog] Smart Grid Blog » Blog Archive » Greentech Media: U-SNAP: Modular ...: Instead, U-SNAP-enabled devices will come with slots that can be outfitted with communication modules for any of those standards, as well as ones yet to be invented. The concept, which stands for Utility Smart Network Access Port, came out of the California Energy Commission’s work on programmable thermostats in 2007.

[SmartGridNews.com] Smart Grid: Cisco Certifies Smart Grid as the Next Big Thing ...: The business case is to go up on the poles just once, put up as many strands of fibre as the pole can take without bending, replace the light with an LED, add a ruggedized battery and a mesh wireless transceiver, a single device that taps at least two fibres (one high reliability, one low) and serves as an ANSI-standard smart meter and a G.hn gateway, putting a gigabit of data on the electric service cable with the mesh wireless as a backup for voice and resilient power and emergency services. How much will that cost in 2010?

[The Green Blog] Trilliant buys broadband wireless for smart grid | The Green Blog: Financial terms weren't disclosed. The acquisition of SkyPilot Networks, which used to sell municipal Wi-Fi systems, will allow Trilliant to offer utilities a way to build a private broadband network, .

[CNET News.com] T-Mobile goes for smart grids | Wireless - CNET News: As cell phone penetration climbs above 85 percent, all the major wireless carriers are looking at ways to expand the market. Using a portion of those networks to provide communications and Internet access for machine to machine applications, like smart grid technology, as well as, for consumer electronics is an important opportunity, phone company executives have said.

[Solar Feeds News and Commentary Network] The Year in Smart Grid | Solar Feeds News and Commentary Blog Network: Smart grid technologies got a lot more VC interest in 2008, and major players like IBM are upping their efforts as well. Maybe that's because of the utility-scale size of the potential spoils.

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