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[Misr IT Reader] Muni Wi-Fi Firms Find New Life In Smart Grid | Misr IT Reader: The new move into the smart grid makes sense for the former municipal Wi-Fi firms. Utilities aren’t used to paying high prices for information technology upgrades, and wireless mesh gear can offer a low-cost option.

[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

[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.

[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).

[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.

[Earth2Tech] Introducing GigaOM Pro: Accessible Market Research, Including ...: core markets, muni Wi-Fi, is as depressed as a conference on ethanol bankruptcies and acquisitions. Trilliant can afford it, having recently raised at ”¦ Trilliant Snags $40M for Smart Grid Deployment.

[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.

[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.

[Dewayne-Net Technology Weblog] Smart Grid Debate: Licensed vs. Unlicensed Wireless Spectrum ...: Ray Bell, the founder of Grid Net, a smart meter software startup, is also betting on WiMAX (at the meter level) and licensed spectrum. Bell pointed out that the municipal Wi-Fi companies, which unsuccessfully tried to build city-wide wireless networks based on unlicensed spectrum and Wi-Fi, realized very quickly how much interference exists for wide area networks built on unlicensed spectrum.

[The Green Blog] Trilliant buys broadband wireless for smart grid | The Green Blog: said it has acquired SkyPilot Networks to bring broadband wireless networking to utility smart-grid programs. Financial terms weren't disclosed.

[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.

[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 ...: Given that, the prospect of getting free money for running a less demanding voice, data and TV network over existing house wiring (G.hn over BPL) ought to be compelling - whether they get it directly (as in Newfoundland as NL Hydro is doing with Aliant XWave, or in Wisconsin's Washington Island where IBM is running its trials for a unified BPL system) or indirectly by renting dark fibre to telco/cable.

[Zigbee News by FreakLabs] Freaklabs - Open Source Zigbee Blog - Tropos: WiFi for the Smart Grid: Zigbee news, blog, and home of the FreakZ Open Source Zigbee Stack (under development)

[Daily Yoga] ZigBee-Powered Smart Grids: Coming To A Home Near You?: A home full of ZigBee-networked devices could be the termination point for the developing smart grid. All of your home energy users would be networked to a centralized controller or your PC, and you could see and change energy usage throughout your home from your office or cell phone.

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