by Wayne Pales | Nov 5, 2015
I attend my fair share of Smart City, Smart Grid, and Smart Metering conferences. My priority at such events is to develop and maintain relationships with industry peers. I tend to treat the presentations themselves as a secondary reason for attending. Whilst often...
by Wayne Pales | Oct 27, 2015
For some years now I have been looking to answer two key questions: How does an electric utility take advantage of the opportunities in a changing landscape? How does it prepare for, and transform to, a Digital Utility? More recently, I also started to look at a third...
by Wayne Pales | Oct 21, 2015
In an earlier paper I discussed how utilities are adopting Distributed or Edge Intelligence. By default the network edge is getting smarter. In a competitive market vendors are making their meters smarter. Utilities are demanding smarter meters and these devices sit...
by Wayne Pales | Oct 10, 2015
A growing number of utilities are focusing on demand response. It helps reduce critical peak demand and defer or even avoid infrastructure investments. To many Utilities this is key to justifying their investment in smart meters. As lessons are learnt from the early...
by Wayne Pales | Sep 29, 2015
A few weeks back I published the Smart Meter Service Map. At the time I had provided a link to a PDF version. I have had a few people ask so click on the link to access the PowerPoint version. Please forgive my basic PowerPoint skills. You may note the map has changed...
by Wayne Pales | Sep 23, 2015
It doesn’t seem that long ago that the next big thing in metering was modular smart meters. The metering industry attended conferences and talked about manufacturers working together. Meters from Company A would have Communications Modules plugged in supplied from...
by Wayne Pales | Sep 17, 2015
The Victorian Auditor General has released his report Realising the Benefits of Smart Meters. As with any program of this scale, there are many stakeholders, with many objectives. There were a series of assumptions that sit behind the decisions. In hindsight some of...
by Wayne Pales | Sep 12, 2015
Earlier this week I presented at a Smart Cities event in Kuala Lumpur. It was quite an intimate setting and I was a little apprehensive at first, a small room with no more than 30 people. It turned out to be a useful couple of days. Hearing from our good friends at...
by Wayne Pales | Sep 11, 2015
A few years ago a successful Meter Sales Person managed the relationship with the Utility Metering Department. Not always the easiest job but if your employer sold quality products then life was simpler. If your meters already met both the utilities specifications as...
by Wayne Pales | Sep 6, 2015
It is difficult to imagine that only thirty years ago telephones were completely dumb. A Telephone Exchange, or Central Office Switch, made the routing decisions. It was a large mechanical device that provided power to the handset which itself did not know if it could...
