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In an age where your smartphone can tell you exactly when you need to leave to arrive on time, for many people, the level of service they get from utilities can seem a bit ancient. After all, water utilities still occasionally surprise homeowners...
Article - 03/30/2017
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Water and wastewater, Analytics, Instrumentation and control
David Logsdon is the senior director of public advocacy for CompTIA, the influential high-tech trade association. (The name stands for Computing Technology Industry Association.) He runs their New and Emerging Technologies Committee, which focuses...
Article - 10/14/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Water and wastewater, Analytics, Instrumentation and control
Around the world, there has been very little relief from drought, according to the latest analysis from the National Integrated Drought Information System. With no relief and a bleak forecast, more cities are looking for innovative solutions to...
Article - 08/07/2015
Active Region(s): Main, Australia - New Zealand, North America
Category: Water and wastewater, Instrumentation and control
Many electric utility and water utility operations are very similar. However, the outage management systems (OMS) electric utilities use to manage information and speed outage restoration are almost unheard of in the water utility industry. Council...
Article - 07/08/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Water and wastewater, Connectivity, Instrumentation and control
You hear a lot of talk about Big Data. But what's really needed is Big Insights. You don't want to drown in the data tsunami. Rather you want your system to parse that data on its own and pull out the key alerts, issues, and opportunities for your...
Article - 06/10/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Water and wastewater, Analytics, Connectivity, Instrumentation and control
When the water supply is short -- as it is now in regions around the world due to drought -- many fingers get pointed at groups that appear to be the biggest water wasters. But at least some of those fingers should be pointed at municipal water...
Article - 06/03/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Water and wastewater, Analytics, Computing resources, Instrumentation and control
Just as the smart grid is the new reality for the energy industry, smart water networks are the new face of the water utility industry. In a piece published in Australian business publication ferret, Council Lead Partner Schneider Electric outlines...
Article - 05/20/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Water and wastewater, Analytics, Instrumentation and control
Scroll down for short takes from Council partners…Cubic tapped to roll out intelligent transport in Manchester, UKCubic Transportation Systems, a Council Lead Partner, was chosen to deliver Transport for Greater Manchester’s (TfGM) new Optimized...
Article - 05/13/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Transportation, Water and wastewater, Connectivity, Instrumentation and control
California’s prolonged drought is drawing attention to San Francisco’s love for smart water meters. Even more so after the state’s governor recently mandated of a 25% cut in water use by the end of this year.Worried water officials from around the...
Article - 04/24/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Water and wastewater, Instrumentation and control
Schneider Electric is taking its experience in energy management and automation to an Alabama school district where it will provide an extensive renovation that will ultimately result in a better environment for students and save the district a lot...
Article - 04/03/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment, Energy, Water and wastewater, Instrumentation and control
It’s been said that water is the new gold. California just imposed its first statewide water restrictions in response to a historic drought. Australia, which for a decade suffered from a severe drought it called the Big Dry, is still struggling to...
Article - 04/03/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Water and wastewater, Analytics, Citizen engagement, Instrumentation and control
Scroll down for short takes from Council partnersQualcomm, AMC Health team to improve care for at-risk patientsQualcomm Life, a subsidiary of Council Lead Partner Qualcomm, announced a collaboration with AMC Health, a privately held provider of real...
Article - 03/27/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Energy, Health and human services, Transportation, Water and wastewater, Connectivity, Instrumentation and control
Scroll down for short takes from Council partners…Iceland's electric grid gets boost from GE technologyTo help modernize and optimize the utility grid in Iceland, Council Lead Partner GE Digital Energy will provide Reykjavik Energy – Iceland’s...
Article - 02/27/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Energy, Water and wastewater, Instrumentation and control
Scroll down for short takes from Council partners…Schneider Electric technology will automate new Las Vegas showplace Council Lead Partner Schneider Electric has signed a multi-year agreement to become the first "founding partner" of the new Las...
Article - 02/18/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment, Energy, Waste management, Water and wastewater, Instrumentation and control
By Sharelynn Moore, ItronToday, populations continue to grow rapidly within the world’s urban areas. For the first time ever, more than half of the world’s population lives in cities. This growth, coupled with aging infrastructure is putting...
Article - 02/04/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Energy, Water and wastewater, Analytics, Instrumentation and control
A professor at Lancaster University in the UK has won £171,495 from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council to lead a study of how the Internet of Things (IoT) can benefit problems from flooding and agricultural pollution to animal...
Article - 12/19/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Water and wastewater, Connectivity, Instrumentation and control, Research, publications and web sites
By George Karayannis, LEED APWe continue our series on the new ISO 37120 Smart City standard with a look at the last of 17 themes defined in the standard: water and sanitation. As previously described, ISO 37120 includes 46 ‘Core’ (must report)...
Article - 12/03/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Health and human services, Water and wastewater, Instrumentation and control, Smart City Tools
Earlier this month Council Lead Partner Itron announced that the city of Bismarck, North Dakota’s water department selected it to help modernize its water distribution system. Keep reading, because there are some things going on in Bismarck that...
Article - 08/20/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Water and wastewater, Connectivity, Instrumentation and control
Cincinnati's water challenges aren't unique. As Tony Parrott, executive director of Greater Cincinnati Water & Wastewater, explains it, the city is faced with aging infrastructure, combined sewer flows and declining water usage.But what may set...
Article - 06/18/2014
Active Region(s): Main
Category: Water and wastewater, Connectivity, Instrumentation and control
By expanding its advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) capabilities in North America with its cellular solution for water utilities, Itron says utilities are able to collect real-time consumption and flow analysis, pressure data and meter data from...
Article - 06/06/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Water and wastewater, Analytics, Connectivity, Instrumentation and control