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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
When an Illinois County public works department realized it needed to significantly expand the scope of its planned water meter reading upgrade to include improved customer billing and service, leak detection and water conservation – and cut costs...
Article - 03/02/2017
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Water and wastewater, Analytics, Data management
If you live where clean water is plentiful, it may be hard to imagine life for the roughly 1.2 billion people in the world with severe water shortages. And the UN says an additional 500 million people will face similar shortages within a few short...
Article - 06/17/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Analytics
Don't think that smart city innovations come only from big cities. Consider, for instance, what is taking place in eastern Washington and parts of Idaho. As you will read below, the regional utility is modernizing its electric and gas infrastructure...
Article - 05/05/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Analytics, Instrumentation and control
Council Lead Partner Itron's OpenWay Riva communications platform promises quite a lot: interoperability, distributed intelligence and more -- in one unified multi-service network -- for smart cities and electric and water utilities.As Simon Pontin...
Article - 02/12/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Energy, Water and wastewater, Analytics, Connectivity
On a global basis, there’s no question that water is in short supply. According to United Nations estimates, one out of six people don’t have enough. And between swelling populations and prolonged droughts, supplies could get even shorter. The...
Article - 01/21/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Water and wastewater, Analytics
Contributed by ItronEvery day, an average of 10 to 30% of water pumped is lost or unaccounted for. Known as non-revenue water (NRW), this lost water costs a lot — not only in water, but in energy. In the U.S. alone, $13 billion in water is lost to...
Article - 01/21/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Water and wastewater, Analytics
Between drought, pollution and population growth, water is the new gold in many cities. If you can’t easily find more, then you have to get citizens to use less. How do you do that? Give them precise information about how much they are using and...
Article - 12/04/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Water and wastewater, Analytics, Citizen engagement
When we turn on our computers, we take for granted that the power is there. Behind the scenes, however, that power is there because utilities knew you were going to need it -- perhaps even before you did.Getting the energy use forecasts right is a...
Article - 05/27/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Energy, Analytics, Computing resources, Connectivity
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
As city leaders, academics and leading smart cities practitioners from around the world gather for the Smart City Expo World Congress in Barcelona this week, Smart Cities Council members are sharing their expertise and thought leadership on a host...
Article - 11/19/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Economic development, Energy, Transportation, Analytics, 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
Paul Nelsen, Senior Director of Smart Grid APAC at Council Lead Partner Itron, talks about the opportunities, challenges and solutions facing Asian utilities at Asian Utility Week 2015.
Resources - 09/25/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Analytics, Instrumentation and control, Interoperability
Building smarter, more sustainable cities requires the support of public, private and civic stakeholders. Envision Charlotte is charting a new course. By taking a holistic and integrated approach to engaging these disparate groups and demonstrating...
Resources - 07/04/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Built environment, Energy, Water and wastewater, Analytics, Citizen engagement
When a water audit found 39% of the water coming through the Town of Olds' supply line couldn’t be accounted for, it appeared leak repairs might recover enough water to delay the need for expensive infrastructure expansion. The town deployed a...
Resources - 05/10/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Water and wastewater, Analytics, Connectivity, Instrumentation and control, Examples and case studies
Philip Mezey combines a distinguished countenance with boyish curiosity and enthusiasm. In 2012, after an external search to find a replacement for the retiring LeRoy Nosbaum, the company realized it had the ideal candidate in house and named...
Resources - 04/19/2013
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Energy, Telecommunications, Water and wastewater, Analytics, Data management, Instrumentation and control