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DS Agile is the latest in turnkey automation solutions for digital substations from Council Lead Partner Alstom Grid. It combines cutting-edge hardware, software, communications and the highest technology engineering. As you'll see in this video, it...
Resources - 05/14/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Energy, Connectivity, Instrumentation and control
Thousands of manufacturers, energy companies, and utilities rely on the PI System from Council Associate Partner OSIsoft to collect, analyze and share real-time sensor data to build their mission-critical operations intelligence infrastructure. One...
Resources - 05/14/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Water and wastewater, Analytics, Computing resources, Connectivity, Instrumentation and control
Beth Comstock from Council Lead Partner GE moderates a discussion about emerging technology trends within intelligent cities, businesses and homes. The panel included city officials from Jacksonville and San Diego, who shared the benefits of their...
Resources - 05/14/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Built environment, Energy, Connectivity, Instrumentation and control
In 2010, Charlotte, NC–based Duke Energy -- along with the local organization Charlotte Center City Partners -- launched a new partnership called Envision Charlotte. Unveiled during the annual Clinton Global Initiative meeting, the program...
Resources - 05/01/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Energy, Telecommunications, Water and wastewater, Connectivity, Instrumentation and control, Examples and case studies
Watch this short video from Council Associate Partner Elster for examples of cities that are deploying advanced water metering systems to detect leaks and other water losses.
Resources - 04/28/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Water and wastewater, Connectivity, Instrumentation and control
If you ever wondered how sensors are tested, this video from Council Associate Partner Enevo demonstrates how its fill-level sensors are tested under a variety of conditions.
Resources - 04/28/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Instrumentation and control
Urban Integrated, [ui!] -- a Council Associate Partner -- has developed a cloud-based application that processes traffic-relevant data. The solution built on Microsoft Azure analyses the sensor data transmitted by traffic guidance systems at...
Resources - 04/25/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Built environment, Transportation, Analytics, Computing resources, Instrumentation and control, Examples and case studies
Fast-growing, future-focused cities like San Jose, California are leading the way in harnessing the power of the Internet of Things (IoT) and smart technologies to help them manage sustainability challenges. San Jose deployed a platform using...
Resources - 04/02/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Health and human services, Water and wastewater, Computing resources, Connectivity, Instrumentation and control
Watch this video from Council Lead Partner IBM to learn about some of the intriguing ways that IBM Watson -- the super computer -- is benefiting smart cities.
Resources - 04/02/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Public safety and security, Water and wastewater, Computing resources, Instrumentation and control
Council Associate Partner Black & Veatch believes in microgrid technology so much that it installed a microgrid in its Rodman Innovation Pavilion at its World Headquarters in Overland Park, Kansas. This 30,000-square-foot building features...
Resources - 03/19/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Built environment, Energy, Instrumentation and control
Watch this brief video from Council Associate Partner Intel demonstrating multi-copter drones equipped with Intel RealSense camera modules successfully avoiding collisions in a tree-studded forest.
Resources - 03/16/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Built environment, Instrumentation and control
When Bethpage Water District (BWD) began its quest to improve its water metering system three years ago, its primary motivations for upgrading from its touch-read system (circa 1988) to Council Associate Partner Badger Meter's Advanced Metering...
Resources - 03/16/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Water and wastewater, Instrumentation and control, Examples and case studies
Proactive water leak detection is one of the main goals in reducing non-revenue water (NRW) in urban water distribution networks. Read in the case study linked below how the water utilities of two cities in Israel are proactively monitoring their...
Resources - 03/15/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Water and wastewater, Instrumentation and control, Examples and case studies
To manage and monitor its photovoltaic plant facilities, 9REN created EOSystem, a solution built on the Wonderware® System Platform from Council Lead Partner Schneider Electric. Read the case study linked below for more on the real-time monitoring...
Resources - 02/28/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Energy, Connectivity, Instrumentation and control
CenterPoint Energy is building an “Intelligent Grid” with power line monitoring equipment, remote switches, and other automated equipment that will locate power line outages as they occur. Ventyx, a subsidiary of Council Associate Partner ABB, will...
Resources - 02/28/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Energy, Instrumentation and control
Below is an animated representation of Council Lead Partner GE Digital Energy's Advanced Distribution Management System (ADMS) and the real-world utility heroes it's designed to empower.
Resources - 02/18/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Built environment, Energy, Connectivity, Instrumentation and control
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.
Resources - 01/19/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Water and wastewater, Connectivity, Instrumentation and control
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. In a California desert...
Resources - 01/13/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Energy, Instrumentation and control
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...
Resources - 01/13/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Energy, Instrumentation and control
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...
Resources - 01/13/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Energy, Citizen engagement, Instrumentation and control