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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...
Tantalus and Itron Deliver TUNet®-compatible Itron SENTINEL® Polyphase Meters
Tantalus Systems Corp. - Tantalus, a leading provider of Smart Grid communication systems, announced the commercial availability of the factory-integrated, TUNet-compatible Itron SENTINEL C&I (Commercial & Industrial) meter, newly equipped with Tantalus communication modules. more...
Smart Analytics make smart utilities smarter
Black & Veatch - Black & Veatch announced today the launch of Smart Analytics. more...
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Sprint M2M to boost utility industry operations; make systems smarter
Sprint Nextel - Electric and water utilities are changing the way they operate, investing in automation and wireless communications to make their distribution and management systems smarter. more...
CSC and Proximetry to Deliver First Smart Grid Network Management Cloud Service for Utilities
CSC (Computer Sciences Corporation) - CSC (NYSE: CSC) announced today that it is collaborating with leading wireless network and performance management software provider Proximetry to leverage its AirSync platform as the foundation of a first-of-its-kind smart grid network management cloud service. more...
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Smart Grid: SoS "… interacting in unpredictable ways that regulators and investors cannot comprehend

Blogger Photo By Jose Antonio Vanderhorst-Silverio - Summary: Similar to financial markets, system crashes are expected in smart grid, because they have been though to be just more...

Is Your Infrastructure Ready for Smart Metering? – Part 4

Blogger Photo By Jay Cappy - By Jay Cappy, Verizon Business PS Utility Practice Lead – IT Advisory Services   This is part four of the more...

SMART GRID: EEFECTIVE REACTIVE POWER CONTROLLER

Blogger Photo By Shehu Khaleel - Utilities today devote considerable attention to managing voltage levels and reactive power (VAR) throughout the power transmission and distribution systems. more...

Data Availability and its usage

By Alok Misra - While lot of data might flow into computer it is the content of indformation that is important or called enthalphy more...

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...
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Simple Practices Help Prevent Expensive Data Loss

By Ernest Hayden
In the April/May 2011 edition of Intelligent Utility Magazine, there was an interesting article about the Salt River Project electric utility and its focus on data loss prevention -- otherwise called DLP. The key points more...
Filed Under Communications & Security

Is Compliance Enough? How to Ensure Logical Access Control

By Kurt Johnson
A recent audit by the Department of Energy's inspector general, as reported in a recent Wired Magazine article, found that the official government cyber-security standards for the electrical power grid, set by the Federal Energy more...
Filed Under Communications & Security

Protecting Customer Privacy in Smart Grid

By Sambit Bisoi
Smart grids have intelligent monitoring devices, which frequently transmit the customers' power usage information to the utility containing information like which appliances were in use, their frequency of usage, time of usage, consumption amount, carbon more...
Filed Under Communications & Security

The Prospective Solar Tsunami

By Alberto Ramirez Orquin
Different from the past, the upcoming cycle-24 solar maximum is currently surrounded by an unprecedented general expectation. Indeed the so-called solar tsunami has now come to the forefront of interest turning into a household word; more...
Filed Under Communications & Security

Smart Phones -- The Gateway to Utility-Customer Engagement

By Sambit Bisoi
Utilities usually have the luxury of not embracing the latest IT solutions as they emerge, but they must keep an eye on the trend and align their applications in the direction of evolution. In the more...
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