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Complex legacy city infrastructures present an obstacle for cities struggling to provide better service to their citizens. And often governments focus on IT while operational technology is overlooked. This Schneider Electric white paper examines the...
Resources - 11/23/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Smart City Concepts, Instrumentation and control
Watch this video to learn about the world's first pilot of Council Lead Partner GE's intelligent LED solution for cities that is now up and running in San Diego, California. “Imagine if your street light could do more than just provide light… if it...
Resources - 09/29/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Smart City Concepts, Energy, 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
A smart city is efficient, connected, sustainable over a long-term, self-contained, self-supporting and aesthetic. With five decaded of experience of developing cities, Egis envisages the role of the ICT network as an integrator of the essentials...
Resources - 09/18/2015
Active Region(s): India, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Smart City Concepts, Definitions and overviews, Instrumentation and control, Smart City Tools, Policy frameworks and tools, Visioning and roadmapping tools
One of the greatest challenges faced with Big Data analytics of sensor data is acquiring the sensor data in a scalable, reliable and consistent manner. This white paper from Gartner and Council Associate Partner OSIsoft discusses a strategic...
Resources - 08/10/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Analytics, Computing resources, Instrumentation and control
This video contains highlights from Council Associate Partner ABB's Americas Technology and Partner Days 2015, which spanned an entire week and included the official opening of its new North American manufacturing facility in Auburn Hills,...
Resources - 07/27/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Built environment, Economic development, Instrumentation and control
Council Lead Partner S&C Electric Company installed an innovative energy storage system, which will work alongside the Island’s existing diesel generators, to store excess energy to be used when demand requires it. This method will extend the...
Resources - 07/27/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Energy, Instrumentation and control
Property managers for Atlantic Station, a mixed-use complex in midtown Atlanta, GA, wanted instant and efficient data access to the energy measurements of each structure in the complex for billing purposes. Read about the solution they chose from...
Resources - 07/07/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Built environment, Energy, Instrumentation and control, Examples and case studies
Water utilities are ready to embrace the promise of smart water technology. Hear more about it in this brief video from Council Associate Partner Black & Veatch. You may also be interested in an important new report from Black & Veatch...
Resources - 07/01/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Water and wastewater, Instrumentation and control
In this interview with Bruno Melles of ABB, a Council Associate Partner, he highlights technologies displayed at the recent CIRED conference and the importance of enabling a smarter and greener power distribution network.
Resources - 07/01/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Energy, Instrumentation and control
Council Lead Partners S&C Electric Company and Schneider Electric completed one of the most advanced microgrids in the North America for Oncor, an electric transmission and distribution company serving 10 million customers across Texas. The...
Resources - 06/19/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Energy, Instrumentation and control
Learn in this video from Council Associate Partner Bit Stew Systems how its revolutionary information processing engine, MIx Core™, enables complex event processing, advanced analytics and sophisticated machine intelligence for utilities and the...
Resources - 06/18/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Energy, Analytics, Computing resources, Connectivity, Instrumentation and control
A convergence is happening between smart grid platforms and smart city platforms. Learn in this video from Council Associate Partner Silver Spring Networks about the opportunities that provides cities to take advantage of a common infrastructure to...
Resources - 06/18/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Smart City Concepts, Energy, Connectivity, Instrumentation and control
When Kansas City Board of Public Utilities installed a water and electric AMI system in 2013, in addition to improving service and reliability, they hoped to empower customers to be wiser energy and water consumers. That goal prompted staff to make...
Resources - 06/14/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Energy, Water and wastewater, Citizen engagement, Connectivity, Instrumentation and control
The Makkah Clock Tower, located in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, is the world’s largest clock tower and the second tallest building. It has 76 stories and is 577 meters high. It is a vast complex with hotels, shopping outlets, food courts, and...
Resources - 06/14/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Built environment, Energy, Water and wastewater, Instrumentation and control
What makes communities smart? This video from Council Associate Partner Elster suggests smart and sustainable communities start with a smart grid, the heartbeat that powers the community's critical infrastructure.
Resources - 06/14/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Smart City Concepts, Energy, Analytics, Connectivity, Instrumentation and control
With a smarter grid and advanced outage management technologies, power interruptions can be avoided or the duration greatly reduced, as this video from Council Associate Partner Elster explains.
Resources - 06/14/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Energy, Instrumentation and control
Nontechnical loss of energy and water is a problem that utilities around the world face. Watch this video from Council Associate Partner Elster to learn more about the problem and technology that can help solve it.
Resources - 06/14/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Energy, Water and wastewater, Instrumentation and control
Learn about smart technologies that help utilities optimize transformer performance in this brief video from Council Associate Partner Elster.
Resources - 06/14/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Energy, Instrumentation and control
The need for increased spending paired with decreasing base water use, source of supply issues, and tighter regulations is proof that the water industry is in significant disarray. In the white paper linked below, West Monroe Partners, a Council...
Resources - 06/10/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Water and wastewater, Analytics, Connectivity, Instrumentation and control
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
Leaders wanted to make Bilbao in Northern Spain a better place to live by promoting public transport, more efficient urban freight improvement, deployment of smart mobility services and by making traffic and mobility data available to...
Resources - 01/08/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Transportation, Connectivity, Instrumentation and control
This is part one of a webinar series from Council Associate Partner Elster that gets under the hood of the Advanced Meter Fort Collins (AMFC) project, where the successful implementation of technology is integrating and leveraging AMI data to create...
Resources - 01/07/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Energy, Instrumentation and control
With a population of 235,000 and growing, there are many more streets in Laredo, Texas than during its frontier past. And that was a problem for the city's utility department. It was walking those streets to read 67,543 water meters – which took a...
Resources - 12/05/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Water and wastewater, Instrumentation and control, Examples and case studies
Council Lead Partner Qualcomm is at the forefront of innovations in mobile robotics making robots smarter and enhancing their connectivity. Its Snapdragon Rover featured in this video showcases the state-of-the-art computing platform that provides...
Resources - 11/13/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Computing resources, Connectivity, Instrumentation and control
Take a tour and learn about the functions of the grid control room -- the brain of the smart grid -- in this video from Council Lead Partner Alstom Grid that showcases its Energy Management System (EMS).
Resources - 11/06/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Energy, Instrumentation and control
ONe Collect is a revolutionary waste container monitoring service from Enevo that saves time, money and the environment. It's meant for municipal waste collection authorities and private waste management companies. This short video from Council...
Resources - 10/17/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Waste management, Instrumentation and control
ONe Collect is a revolutionary service for optimizing the collection of waste and recycling containers. This short video from Council Associate Partner Enevo explains how it works.
Resources - 10/17/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Waste management, Instrumentation and control
Watch this brief video with Lorie Cosio-Azar, Project Officer for the city of San Diego Environmental Services Department, to learn why Council Lead Partner GE's energy-efficient LED street lighting fixtures and wireless lighting controls will save...
Resources - 10/06/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Built environment, Energy, Connectivity, Instrumentation and control
SWAN, the Smart Water Networks Forum (a Council Advisor) explores the benefits smart water technologies can provide cities and their water customers. This video features five innovative solutions: customer metering, leakage detection, energy...
Resources - 09/16/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Water and wastewater, Connectivity, Instrumentation and control
What is a smart water network and how can it help your city? This short video from the Smart Water Networks Forum (SWAN) -- a Council Advisor -- provides a basic overview about the value of smart water networks.
Resources - 09/16/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Water and wastewater, Connectivity, Instrumentation and control
This short video from Council Lead Partner Alstom Grid highlights the advantages of transforming a city to make smarter use of energy.
Resources - 07/25/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Energy, Instrumentation and control
ThyssenKrupp Elevator wanted to gain a competitive edge by focusing on what matters most to their customers: reliability. Watch the video to see how the company drew on the potential of the Internet of Things (IoT) to develop smarter elevators.
Resources - 07/17/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Built environment, Computing resources, Instrumentation and control
The Albemarle Ibuprofen plant is an anchor of the economy in the Orangeburg, South Carolina area. But power outages were providing the facility's biggest headache. The outages created “serious production losses and waste generation...
Resources - 07/15/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Economic development, Energy, Instrumentation and control, Examples and case studies
Located 50 kilometers east of Helsinki, the Finnish capital, is Porvoo, an old medieval town situated in the picturesque scenery of the Finnish archipelago.In the summer of 2011, the scenery at the local recycling stations was less picturesque;...
Resources - 07/04/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Built environment, Waste management, Instrumentation and control
Improved sensor technologies and firmware applications (that measure, for example, pressure, water quality, and flow), big data analytics tools (leveraged from other industry sectors), and embedded machine-to-machine (M2M) communication and...
Resources - 07/02/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Water and wastewater, Connectivity, Instrumentation and control
Orangeburg Department of Public Utilities installed distribution feeder technology from Council Associate Partner Siemens to ensure a reliable power supply to an Ibuprofen plant, an anchor of the economy in the Orangeburg area. Its 10-megawatt load...
Resources - 06/27/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Economic development, Energy, Instrumentation and control
The EPRI Smart Grid Demonstration Initiative was a seven-year international collaborative research program which studied many different aspects of modernizing the world’s energy grid. Twenty-four utilities from Australia, Canada, France, Ireland,...
Resources - 05/30/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Energy, Instrumentation and control
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
The utility serving Madison, Tennessee used to read its water meters manually every other month, estimating usage in intervening months. Even so, the process took eight to 10 readers, in four to five cars, more than 20 hours. After switching to RF...
Resources - 05/06/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Water and wastewater, Instrumentation and control
The IBM Intelligent Water Platform for Water Efficiency Management helps public or private water utilities unite siloed data for a holistic, singular view of their entire water infrastructure. It's a proactive approach to maintaining an aging...
Resources - 04/22/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Water and wastewater, Analytics, Instrumentation and control