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Tendril Moves to Link Up Old-School Meters

The maker of in-home energy monitoring equipment and software is in five utility trials to bring data from a previous generation of AMR meters – ones that can send but not receive information – into its ZigBee-enabled home networks.

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Jeff St. John February 11, 2009

Security Concerns Behind Slowdown in Itron Rollout?

SDG&E is slowing down its deployment of smart meters from Itron, as a result of security concerns, according to Pacific Crest Securities. Itron says its security is top-notch. The issue could play into a debate about open versus proprietary standards.

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Jeff St. John February 9, 2009

Smart Grid: A Matter of Standards

As utilities deploy millions of smart meters that need to send and receive massive amounts of data, the question of what types of communications networks they're using is becoming a matter of increasing controversy.

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Jeff St. John February 4, 2009

IBM Brings Smart Meters to Malta

The computing giant has been pushing its smart grid efforts with research collaborations and partnerships with utilities in pilot projects in the U.S. and Europe. Now it's going to bring smart electric and water meters to Malta, though it hasn't announced any partners yet.

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Jeff St. John February 4, 2009

Tendril Targets Meter Makers

Tendril, the home automation company, is easing out of hardware so it can sell software to meter makers and others.

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Michael Kanellos February 3, 2009

eMeter: Data-Keeper for the Smart Grid

The San Mateo, Calif.-based startup, which landed a contract with Texas utility CenterPoint on Monday, makes software that manages the flood of data coming from smart meters being deployed by utilities around the country.

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Jeff St. John February 2, 2009

Get Ready for the WiFi Thermostat

Radio Thermostat has devised a thermostat that can be controlled through the wireless router in your house. Home automation creeps closer.

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Michael Kanellos November 17, 2008

Itron Reports Strong Third Quarter

The smart-metering equipment maker beats analysts' expectations, but concerns about the economy lower its share price 2 percent.

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Jeff St. John October 30, 2008

Silver Spring Grabs $75M

The startup joins a growing number of smart-meter technology developers that are attracting hefty investments.

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Ucilia Wang October 7, 2008

SCE Preps $1.63B Smart-Meter Program

Southern California Edison plans to install 5.3 million electric meters between 2009 and 2012. The utility has signed a $480 million deal to buy most of the meters from Itron.

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Ucilia Wang September 19, 2008

Silver Spring Smart Meters Get New Homes

The company will sell wireless-networking equipment and software thanks to a $17M project with a utility in California.

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Ucilia Wang September 8, 2008

IN BRIEF: Itron Misses Expectations

Smart-metering company, anticipated to be the 'bellwether' of the energy-management sector, falls 12 cents short of Wall Street.

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Jennifer Kho November 1, 2007

Reading Electric Meters Wirelessly

Burbank Water and Power rolls out its own WiFi network to get a read on customers' smart meters.

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Rachel Barron October 24, 2007

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