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...
