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Vodafone hedges on both landline and mobile for smart meter roll-out

F1 racing engineers use machine-to-machine (M2M) communications to monitor a car’s performance Vodafone is expecting the impending smart meter roll-out to embrace both landline and mobile technology, one of the company’s machine-to-machine (M2M) specialists told Energy Demand this week. The Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) is reportedly keen to lever smart meter technology –... 
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What Smart Grids Have in Store for Us

This article has been contributed by Linda Jackman, Group Vice President of Industry Strategy at Oracle Utilities.   The electrification of the world during the 20th century has had a greater impact on the way we live than almost any other innovation. Since then however, there has been surprisingly little development around how our power grids operate. They were and have remained analogue distribution... 
Tags: analogue distribution systems, conserve energy, display energy usage, Electric power distribution, Electrical grid, electricity, electricity consumption, electricity supplies, Energy, energy consumption, energy distribution, Energy economics, energy grid, energy landscape, , energy usage, International Energy Agency, legacy power networks, Linda Jackman, power infrastructure, Renewable energy, Smart grid,