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Why water companies choose LAISON for smart prepaid water meters

Smart Energy International

Prepaid water meters are not a new thing, even in Africa, but most projects failed before 2010. Amid the development of IoT technology and the popularity of Mobile payment in Africa, manufacturers started to promote smart STS prepaid water meters with different types of communication options, such as LoRa/LoRaWAN, NB-IoT, Bluetooth, etc.

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Plugging into electricity’s energy challenge

Envirotec Magazine

According to the International Energy Agency, global electricity demand rose by more than 6% in 2021, the largest increase since the recovery from the financial crisis in 2010. Despite popular belief, electrification does not always lead to a reduction in carbon footprint.

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Italgas – smart gas networks at core of investments

Smart Energy International

Italgas’s ESCO subsidiary Seaside has grown its business since its founding in 2010 both through organic growth and also in part through M&As, with Ceresa the latest acquisition. Further such M&A initiatives are intended in what is considered an overly fragmented market of almost 400 mainly small-size ESCOs.

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Off-Grid Power Sector Rides Out 2020, Readies For Place In Recovery Plans

GreenTechMedia

According to the UN’s Sustainable Energy 4 All program, the number of people without electricity fell from 1,150 million in 2010 to around 789 million by the end of 2019. Demand and to an extent, finance have been plentiful for those ready to put the work in. Its goal is to bring that number to zero by 2030 and it is off-track.

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New profiles to facilitate the roll-out of smart metering technologies worldwide

Smart Energy International

This M2G (Meter two Gateway) interface can either act in a “network-controlled mode”, which means that the data concentrator is the master node of the home network, and it is in charge of the bandwidth occupation, or in “interactive controlled mode”, which means the Gateway can also be the master node of the home network.

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Acceleration GridOS with Utilihive

Smart Energy International

How Utilihive accelerates Streamlined Data Integration in GridOS Utilihive delivers a unified platform that aggregates data from diverse endpoints, sensors and IoT devices. Greenbird was founded in 2010 with a mission to revolutionize how the energy industry thinks about enterprise system integration.

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Managing power grid complexity: The 5 biggest priorities for utilities in 2024

Smart Energy International

Software applications, sensors, IoT devices, hybrid cloud, APIs – every source bringing data into the utility is a potential risk. Greenbird was founded in 2010 with a mission to revolutionize how the energy industry thinks about enterprise system integration.