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Technology Trending: Smart home EV charging, DEWA’s customer centre, smart city app

Smart Energy International

EV charging comes to Samsung’s SmartThings, DEWA’s customer care centre goes voice-based and a San Antonio ‘smart city’ app(roach) that could be emulated are on the week’s technology radar. It’s a conversation starter, bringing us closer to our community and transforming the way the city connects with visitors and residents.”

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Tampa Electric Company wins 2023 Itron innovator award for advancing public safety and load management solutions

Smart Energy International

which is innovating the way utilities and cities manage energy and water, announced that Tampa Electric Company (TECO), one of Florida’s largest investor-owned electric utilities, is the winner of the 2023 Itron Innovator Award, which recognises an Itron customer that leverages Itron’s partner enablement program. Itron, Inc.,

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Beach battery powers Dutch coast smart grid project

Smart Energy International

With the Smart Beach Grid, we are exploring the blueprint for the electricity grid of the future. Innovation is key to addressing this challenge. This battery exemplifies a smart solution to optimise grid capacity utilisation. The battery is constructed from recycled batteries sourced from EVs.

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Itron Inspire EMEA 2022: Utility best practices and innovation

Smart Energy International

Across Itron’s nine key areas of activity, Deitrich highlighted three of them, all of which are relevant across the EMEA region: Smart cities Water resource management Data and analytics. On demand sessions. Each session is available as on-demand content until May 6, 2022.

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Infrastructure and resiliency set to accelerate smart water systems uptake – study

Smart Energy International

The result of this, however, is a rising demand for smart water systems to integrate into smart city-esque infrastructure to bolster resilience against such events; so states a new research report. Extreme rainfall and flooding are no longer a spectacle, but rather unfortunately another newspaper headline.

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New York City chooses three hardware vendors for curbside charging pilot

Charged

New York City has launched a pilot to demonstrate how access to charging could be improved for the 50% of residents that park their cars on-street. Connected Kerb’s power supply is installed below ground, which offers greater protection and allows more plug sockets to be added above ground as demand grows.

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Tech innovators should pay attention to NYC’s new air pollution monitoring pilot

EDF + Business

This pilot will help determine the tremendous potential that innovative technologies hold for improving our understanding of air pollution. Dr. Harold Rickenbacker, Manager, Clean Air & Innovation. In previous mobile sensing pilot projects, EDF’s experience has helped other cities gather similar insights.