Street lights are ubiquitous in cities today. They light downtowns, parks and public gathering places. They light industrial centers and suburban malls. And they light residential neighborhoods. In fact, street lights stretch into almost every nook and cranny in a city where people live or congregate regularly.
This brief video is the first installment in a new ad campaign from Council Lead Partner Cisco showcasing how the Internet of Everything is ushering in many firsts, but its legacy will be measured in the lasts it creates - the last blackout, the last product recall, the last traffic jam.
Amy Ericson, U.S. country president for Council Lead Partner Alstom, spoke at the World Bank Group about the interplay between carbon pricing and innovation that can lower carbon emissions for cleaner, more sustainable development. Alstom is involved in the Carbon Pricing Leadership Coalition.
Nagahama City, Japan, wanted to reduce ICT costs and simplify network operation and management. As part of an upgrade they planned to converge their information and digital telephony systems onto a single network.
A new infographic developed by the Smart Water Networks Forum (SWAN) -- a member of the Council's Advisory Board -- highlights the multiple benefits utilities and their customers gain by implementing smart technologies in water distribution networks.
California’s utility companies are up against a 2020 deadline to produce one-third of the state’s electricity using renewable generation sources, and this is generating concern about the stability of the state’s electric grid.
As one of Europe’s oldest cable operators, Melita delivers a seamless broadband service with Council Lead Partner Cisco’s Universal Wi-Fi, and together they are helping turn Malta into a smart island. Watch this video to learn more.
Today’s dynamic power distribution systems require a solution that provides utilities with the visibility and control needed to perform work, share information in real-time, respond to outages efficiently and safely, and optimize performance of network assets. This video highlights Council Lead Partner GE's PowerOn Advantage -- a modular Advanced Distribution Management System (ADMS) -- a digital cockpit for power system operators enabling improved performance through gains in system reliability, efficiency and productivity.
Listen in as Laurent Schmitt of Alstom Grid, a Council Lead Partner, joins Gilles Rocchia of Socomec and Christine Pellen of RTE in a discussion of smart grid progress in France, where pilots and projects are getting citizens involved in smarter approaches to energy usage. The Engerati video is was filmed at European Utility Week 2014.
The GreenLys smart-grid development project, comprising Lyon and Grenoble, serves as the experimental platform for innovative solutions from energy generation to consumption.