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Critical Infrastructure Industries (CII) Applaud Release Of FCC's National Broadband Plan
Utilities Telecom Council (UTC) - Several associations representing U.S. critical infrastructure industries this week applauded the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) efforts to craft a National Broadband Plan. more...
Trilliant Announces Smart Grid Industry's First Integration of NAN and WAN Tiers
Trilliant Networks, Inc. - Trilliant Incorporated, a leader in delivering Smart Grid solutions that enhance energy efficiency, utility operations, and renewable resource integration, today announced the SecureMeshTM Bridge products, which integrate a Wide Area Network (WAN) for distribution and a Neighborhood Area Network (NAN) for metering. more...
Pulaski Gets Top Marks from Metering International for Innovative Smart Grid Deployment
Tantalus Systems Corp. - pioneering Smart Grid project that is bringing economic and operational benefits to a Tennessee municipality earned Pulaski Electric System (PES) the 2010 Award of Excellence for Innovation from Metering International. more...
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CalAmp Agrees to Lease Private 900 MHz Radio Spectrum From Space Data
CalAmp Corporation - CalAmp Corp. (NASDAQ: CAMP), a leading provider of wireless products, services and solutions, has entered into an agreement with Space Data Radio, LLC to lease a 100 KHz portion of licensed 900 MHz radio frequency spectrum across the entire United States, subject to execution of a definitive agreement and FCC filings. more...
CalAmp Licenses Kepware Communications Technology for Its New Air Traffic Controller Appliance for SmartGrid Applications
CalAmp Corporation - CalAmp Corp. (NASDAQ: CAMP), a leading provider of wireless products, services and solutions, and Kepware Technologies, the leader in communications for automation, today introduced the Air Traffic Controller (ATC), a distributed communications processor that optimizes bandwidth over wireless networks. more...
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Big Players Not Waiting for Standards

Blogger Photo By Stephen Daniels - In the rush to get meters in the field and tout Success with a capital S, many utilities may be more...

Is the Smart Grid that is Being Pushed a Costly Mistake?

Blogger Photo By Jose Antonio Vanderhorst-Silverio - The main argument is that, by inaction, each State Government should be responsible to their constituencies for a very costly more...

Unleashing Design Thinking in the Power Industry by Reframing

Blogger Photo By Jose Antonio Vanderhorst-Silverio - Design Thinking demand side radical disruptive innovations to the power industry at the "fuzzy front end" are facilitated with a more...

Another Institutional Memory Warning: Do today's power grids have little centralized control?

Blogger Photo By Jose Antonio Vanderhorst-Silverio - Smart Grid Command & Control: The Death of the Giant Brain in the Sky, an article written by Jesse Berst more...

Monitoring System for Overhead Line Conductors. Meeting the demands of a changing power environment

Blogger Photo By LIOS Technology - Providing sufficient electrical power reliably requires ongoing monitoring of temperatures within overhead transmission lines that are more susceptible to atmospheric more...
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Securing Applications across a Multi-Tier Smart Grid Network

 Mar 30, 2010 - Internet

This webinar discusses how an integrated multi-tier communications network can be partitioned into virtual network domains to ensure end-to-end security and QoS for Smart Grid applications. more...

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Join industry experts from Ventyx, Panasonic and Sybase on Tuesday March 30th at 2:00pm EDT for a one hour webcast on how you can take the next step in mobile workforce management. The webcast will provide a comprehensive mobile strategy more...
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The Looming Smart Grid Security Crisis: Lessons learned from online banking provide the blueprint

By Dan Pearl
On November 8, 2009 on CBS's 60 Minutes, Retired Admiral Mike McConnell equated the threat that the United States faces today from cyber attackers to problems facing the banking industry. The true danger, McConnell asserted, more...
Filed Under Communications & Security

YouTube, iPhone Apps, Kindle and the Utility Franchise

By Mark Gabriel
The explosion in consumer technologies and options, coupled with the utility industry's expansion into the smart grid, advanced meters and communications will do what all of the failed attempts at deregulation could not: create true more...
Filed Under Communications & Security

Critical Infrastructure Determines Long-Term Strategy, Part II

By Raj Vaswani
Application vendors have historically been defined by the physical medium of their solution. A vendor might be "wireless" or "powerline," but rarely both. Over the past few years, there has been a dizzying increase in more...
Filed Under Communications & Security

Providing Cyber Security: Industry Steps Up

By David Batz
Today's natural gas transmission and distribution systems depend on computer technology and supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems to operate safely and efficiently. In the United States alone, there are nearly 300,000 miles of more...
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Critical Infrastructure Determines Long-Term Strategy, Part I

By Eric Dresselhuys
Energy Conservation. Energy Efficiency. Go Green. Clean Tech. Smart Grid. The utility industry has enacted a number of initiatives with a common goal -- improving the quality, value and long-term sustainability of electricity delivery. more...
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