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 General Technology Australia, fttp, Internet, nbn, Smart Grid
The Australian government, in partnership with a few private enterprises, is spending $43 billion dollars on installing Fibre to the Premise (FTTP) to the majority of Australian houses with the aim of almost everyone having high speed Internet access within a few years (called the National Broadband Network or NBN). Australia covers a vast area [...]
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 [...]
