-
Smart Meters – Old School for This Electric Coop
Smart Meters are a center of controversy in California, but in the rural Missouri region served by Co-Mo Electric Cooperative, smart meters were introduced a decade ago and embraced by Co-Mo’s members. Kenneth Johnson, CEO/GM of Co-Mo, explains how their first generation smart meters helped their customers in ways that wouldn’t be obvious to someone…
-
Video Anywhere over Anything
Sang Kim and Tal Sliwowicz of Tversity talk about transcoding and packaging signals at the home and how they are offering this capability to service providers, in the above video filmed at Parks Associates’ 2011 Connections Conference . What started out as a product for the PC is migrating to home gateway-type boxes and could even find its…
-
Borderless Lifestyle and the Connected Home
The borderless lifestyle is what Ann Shaub of Verizon talks about in this interview. That is, the connected nature of broadband coupled with home networking allows people to blur the lines between work and home life; chores and play; efficiency and abundance. Making the user interface simple to use and one that transcends devices is…
-
The Connected Home and Broadband Service Providers
The future is now, at least when it comes to the technology associated with the connected home. With the proliferation of broadband, home networks, low-cost devices and easy-to-use input/output devices (e.g smart phones and tablets), all the pieces are in place to make the connected home a reality. The question, posed in an article…
-
An Electrifying New Broadband Service
Eric Bruno of Verizon discusses their home monitoring and control solution at the 2011 Parks Associates’ Connections in this exclusive video interview.
-
Networking Inside the Plug
A Smart Energy HAN Consortium is how Alan Weissberger titled his blog post about an alliance of alliances that consists of the WiFi Alliance, the Home Grid Forum, Zigbee Alliance and the HomePlug Alliance. As Alan explains, the intent of this super group is to help companies that provide products that communicate over IP to…
