Tag: utilities

October 6, 2023

HNM Systems (HNM), a leader in providing direct hire, contract to hire and professional placement to the telecommunications, utilities and IT sectors, announced it has joined the Fiber Broadband Association, an organization that is dedicated to accelerating the deployment of […]

November 5, 2021

Verizon Business announced a potent combination of customer-facing network, hardware and intelligence offerings for Internet of Things (IoT) applications across industries, including manufacturing, healthcare, utilities, transportation, retail/supply chain, public safety and more. Verizon-certified IoT devices can now access Verizon’s 5G […]

August 23, 2021

Businesses have traditionally relied on one shared network to handle a wide variety of tasks. However, as more devices require connectivity as part of the Internet of Things (IoT) and businesses digitize, it’s becoming apparent that the one-size-fits-all approach to […]

June 15, 2021

Accenture has agreed to acquire umlaut (formerly P3 Group), an engineering consulting and services firm headquartered in Aachen, Germany. The move will significantly scale Accenture’s deep engineering capabilities to help companies use digital technologies like cloud, artificial intelligence, and 5G […]

December 3, 2020

The largest state public power organization in the U.S. received permission from the Federal Communications Commission this week to experiment with private LTE at 900 MHz for use cases ranging from IoT to drone inspections at a hydro-electric power plant. […]

April 7, 2020

Water is one of our most precious resources. Yet every year, we lose more than 126 million cubic meters globally to leaks, poor metering and theft. Beyond that is the energy wasted moving water that never gets used. It adds […]

March 24, 2020

Utilities are embracing modernization efforts to increase efficiency and reliability and enable renewable energy. But there’s another trend utilities must account for: cyberattacks. Attacks in July of 2019 against the US and in December of 2015 against the Ukraine power […]

March 17, 2020

As coronavirus spreads rapidly across the world, we feel the impact of global urbanization and population density. The UN projects that by 2050, 68 percent of the world population will live in urban areas. One of the new great human […]

November 13, 2019

As the Federal Communications Commission considers whether, and how, to utilize spectrum at 6 GHz for unlicensed use, a group of tech and Wi-Fi companies that includes Facebook, Apple, Microsoft and Google has thrown its support behind providing additional room […]

June 18, 2019

The company formerly known as pdvWireless has a new name — Anterix — but its focus on using 900 MHz spectrum to support private broadband LTE networks for the utilities industry remains the same. Anterix officially began trading yesterday under […]

February 6, 2019

Utilities are transforming. In working with over 200 utilities worldwide, we find that they are facing three key business imperatives – securely improving grid reliability and efficiency, integrating distributed energy resources (like wind and solar), and identifying new revenue opportunities. […]