Gary Eckstein Smart Grid 0 infrastructure, mobile data, mobile devices, mobile networks, Smart, smart city, Smart Grid, smart infrastructure, smart technology, smart water, technology, wimax, wireless
Ericsson has announced that there are 5 billion mobile/cell phone subscriptions worldwide. Certainly a huge number however there was another bit of interesting information provided by Ericsson that illustrates how we are still in the infancy of mobile communications: I was interested to see the following statement from Ericsson: ‘December of last year [2009], another [...]
Gary Eckstein Smart Grid 0 google, IEEE, iphone, nexus, Smart Grid, smartgrid, smartphone
Just as the word smart started to become the new ubercool word, along comes super. Whilst the iphone may well be a smartphone, the Nexus One from Google is a ‘superphone’ and is apparently supercool (I can’t wait to get to demo one!). So, billions of dollars are being spent on smartgrids, smart surgical devices, [...]
Gary Eckstein Smart Grid 0 elctricity, infrastructure, Smart Grid, smart infrastructure, smart meters, sustainability
CNN has a very interesting article about a ‘green city’. As CNN puts it ‘Earth’s perfect green city already exists — in pieces. We’ve gathered the world’s most innovative buildings, utilities and initiatives into our eco-topia. It’s an eco-fantasy now, but not for eco-long!’ In the list of sustainable technology initiatives is the Smart Grid [...]
Gary Eckstein Smart Grid 0 Alcatel Lucent, business, electricity, greentech, IBM, infrastructure, Motorola, Silver Spring Networks, Smart Grid, smart-meter, technology
Smart Grids, the ‘next wave’ of massive infrastructure investment is set to be a huge industry. Many organizations and governments are ramping up for the required changes in electricity infrastructure. Smart Grids are creating very attractive opportunities for companies not traditionally associated with electricity; For example tech companies such as Cisco, Motorola and Alcatel Lucent [...]
Gary Eckstein Smart Grid 2 electricity companies, electricity generation, electricity infrastructure, electricity meter, electricity network, smart infrastructure, smart meters, smart-meter
The next ‘big thing’ is the Advanced Metering Infrastructure/Smart Infrastructure (Smart-grid and Smart-meter) and all the supporting technologies. Electricity Infrastructure is starting, the world over, to go through an immense change. The change is about supporting electricity generation and distribution with technology and hundreds of billions of dollars will be spent over the next few [...]
