Cambridge (UK) has completed the first stage of its citywide wireless network in the “white space” (the unused and underused parts of the wireless spectrum left vacant by the move from analog TV to digital TV). This initial phase consists of a wireless smart electricity meter reading application over the white space spectrum. The city [...]
New Tropos 1410 Delivers Secure Field Area Networks for Smart Grid and Other Industrial Applications
Tropos Networks has announced the Tropos 1410 wireless mesh router and wireless bridge for field automation applications. The new product line extends advanced enterprise-class security to utility and industrial applications that monitor and control field automation devices. Furthermore, it provides communications for these applications for as little as half the cost of competitive proprietary, low-speed wireless [...]
Victorville deploys wireless mesh network for SCADA system upgrade
Victorville Water District (California) has upgraded their SCADA (Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition) system and installed Firetide’s HotPort® wireless mesh network for communications between various sites. At present there are 15 sites and the district plans to add 45 more sites. The sites include various wells, booster pump stations, storage tanks, and treatment plants which are now [...]
Fort Collins, Colorado selects Tropos for smart grid project
The City of Fort Collins Utilities has selected Tropos GridCom as the communications infrastructure for its Advanced Meter Project AMI data backhaul and future aggregation of smart grid applications across the utilities’ service territory. “A crucial element in our Advanced Meter Project is a highly reliable broadband communications infrastructure,” said Steve Catanach, Light and Power Manager [...]
Wednesday afternoon reads: largest smart grid projects, Verizon unleashed
For your reading pleasure this Wednesday 7 September 2011: How carriers hamstring your smartphone: team at the University of Michigan and Microsoft Research has uncovered, for the first time, the frequently suboptimal network practices of more than 100 cellular carriers. Here’s the paper entitled An Untold Story of Middle Boxes in Cellular Networks. Ten largest US [...]
UK issues public tender for smart grid communications network
The Department of Energy and Climate Change of the United Kingdom has issued a public tender (request for proposals or RFP) for a company (or companies) to provide communications services to connect smart electricity and gas meters in up to 30 million households and businesses in the UK. These services will consist of wide area [...]
Securing the IP of IP Smart Grid Security
When your job, among other things, consists of the discovery and protection of the intellectual property in things like smart grid security, I thought an interview with Theodore Wood from Sterne Kessler Goldstein & Fox (based in Washington DC) would be be insightful. I wasn’t disappointed. From international cyber security espionage to plain old American [...]
Cyber Wars begin: is the Power Grid next?
Recent reports have clearly demonstrated that cyber wars are indeed happening. I made this clear in my last Smart Grid Virtual Summit presentation in June 2011. So what are the implications and when are people going to at last take notice? Forbes reported recent attacks included an unprecedented series of cyber attacks on the networks of 72 organizations [...]
Kansas City Board of Public Utilities selects Tropos for smart grid communications
The Kansas City Board of Public Utilities (KCBPU) has selected Tropos GridCom as their communications infrastructure for aggregating multiple smart grid applications across their 127 square mile service territory. KCBPU, a publicly owned provider of electricity and water services in the Kansas City area, is deploying a smart grid for both power and water utilities. [...]
Virtual Summit for the Smart Grid
The Smart Grid Virtual Summit on June 29 and 30, 2011 is expected to be an eye opener with top industry players sharing their expertise. It is an online conference via Cisco’s Webex platform, which makes it a fantastic way to listen to experts, interact with other attendees, all from the comfort of your home [...]
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- EU data roaming price caps save business people 1000 EUR per year May 14, 2012
- Singapore’s nationwide fiber broadband network close to completion May 10, 2012
- Heartland Institute loses donors over stupid billboard ad May 10, 2012
- Tales from the Towers, Chapter 35: Ubiquiti versus Canopy/Cambium for WISPs May 7, 2012
- Edgewater Wireless Introduces Next Generation WiFi3 Technology May 7, 2012
- EU opens public consultation on reducing the cost of broadband deployments April 30, 2012
- Cambridge, UK launches city-wide white space wireless network April 26, 2012
- Case Study: Improving Wi-Fi QoS and Performance in Rural Environments April 24, 2012
- Why broadband still sucks in rural areas April 23, 2012
- Tales from the Towers, Chapter 34: Raising Money for a Wireless ISP Business April 23, 2012
- Are Europe’s mobile operators retreating to their homelands? April 19, 2012
- Best and Worst Hotel Wi-Fi April 18, 2012
- New York City CTO resigns over public safety wireless network debacle April 15, 2012
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iPhone users on Wi-Fi more than Android users
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- Tales from the Towers, Chapter 35: Ubiquiti versus Canopy/Cambium for WISPs May 7, 2012
- Best and Worst Hotel Wi-Fi April 18, 2012
- Why broadband still sucks in rural areas April 23, 2012
- Edgewater Wireless Introduces Next Generation WiFi3 Technology May 7, 2012
- Not good: moving to a captive, closed world for content and Wi-Fi March 1, 2012
- Smartphone owners prefer Wi-Fi over cellular by a huge margin March 2, 2012
- New York City CTO resigns over public safety wireless network debacle April 15, 2012
- Why I dumped my iPhone February 15, 2012
- Tales from the Towers, Chapter 33: What’s your vector, Victor? February 12, 2012
- PCCW completes commercial trial of Next Generation Hotspot network in Hong Kong February 29, 2012
- Lousy cellular connections push smartphone and tablet users to Wi-Fi May 17, 2012
- Cambridge, UK launches city-wide white space wireless network April 26, 2012
- EU opens public consultation on reducing the cost of broadband deployments April 30, 2012
- Testing lab shows Edgewater Wireless outperforms carrier class access points February 14, 2012
- Case Study: Improving Wi-Fi QoS and Performance in Rural Environments April 24, 2012
- Johnson Controls Municipal WiFi Project in Hollywood, FL called a FLOP | City-County Observer: [...] http://www.muniwireless.com/2011/09/07/holly...
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