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ThirdEye brings mixed reality to oil and gas

Augmented and mixed reality specialist ThirdEye has partnered with asset management company Troia to provide mixed reality technology to technicians, field workers and remote experts in remote industrial, critical [...]

NES expands smart meter deal with Romanian utility

Romanian utility Electrica is buying an extra 32,000 smart meters from California-based Networked Energy Services (NES). This further expands the NES infrastructure project with Electrica, which includes cooperation with [...]

Siemens implements smart metering for Qatar utility

Siemens is helping Kahramaa, the Qatar electricity and water corporation, implement an advanced metering infrastructure project deploying smart meters. Under the project, a smart platform will be deployed enabling electricity [...]

Nokia deploys 450MHz LTE network for PGE Systemy

Nokia has deployed a 450MHz private wireless LTE proof of concept (PoC) network for Polish power grid operator PGE Systemy. The 450MHz band is being adopted across Europe for [...]

Hexing adopts Arm IoT platform for smart meters

Chinese firm Hexing is leveraging Arm’s Pelion device management and Wi-Sun compliant connectivity to lower the operating costs for large-scale smart meter deployments. Arm, the UK chip design subsidiary of [...]

Smart meter market to top $28bn by 2025, says M&M

The global smart meters market is expected to grow from estimated revenues of $20.7bn in 2020 to $28.6bn by 2025, at a CAGR of 6.7%, according to a report [...]

Dewa AI success to trigger wider rollout

Dubai Electricity & Water Authority (Dewa) has announced that Rammas, its virtual employee that uses artificial intelligence (AI), responded to more than 1.2 million queries in 2019. This supports [...]

Volterio robots aid electric vehicle charging

Austrian company Volterio has developed an autonomous robot to charge electric vehicles and stop city street being littered with charging stations. Charging stations can be an eyesore in inner cities, [...]

EkWateur uses blockchain to give energy choice in France

Australian firm Power Ledger and French green energy retailer EkWateur are rolling out a blockchain-based renewable energy trading platform to 220,000 electricity meters across France. Users will be able to [...]

ABB opens up energy management software

ABB has opened up its energy management software to facilitate development of innovative smart applications. The Swiss company has launched its Software Developer Portal, designed to enable the development [...]

Shanghai Gas and VeChain power energy-as-a-service with blockchain

Shanghai Gas is collaborating with VeChain to roll out a blockchain-powered energy-as-a-service platform after a successful test phase. Shanghai Gas, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Shenergy Group that provides energy coverage [...]

HK Electric picks Landis + Gyr to deploy AMI

Hongkong Electric has awarded Landis + Gyr a contract to deploy an advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) in support of Hong Kong’s transformation into a smart city. The contract includes the [...]