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The Building to Building Singularity
Will we be at the singularity when the number of building-to-building conversations is greater than the number of conversations between the people in those buildings? This is the provocative question posed by Karl Rabago of Austin Energy. Rabago describes a sort of peer-to-peer smart energy management system in this wide-ranging interview at Parks Associates’ Smart…
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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…
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Powering Telecom Progress
Power is a critical element to a reliable communications network. This may be even more so in rural areas, compared to urban areas, as the economics of a rural build don’t support multiple last mile networks and the physics of a rural area often don’t allow wireless communications. Nowhere is this more evident than at…
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I Can See for Inches and Miles
Innovega demonstrated at CES 2012 nanotechnology designed into contact lenses that, when combined with a special set of glasses, allows one to focus close to read a heads-up display projected on the glasses, while seeing far. They can also be used for delivering full-field 3D or for 360 degree gaming experience. In this video, Randall…
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An App for That with Paul Bunyan Communications
A telco as an app developer? Leo Anderson of Paul Bunyan Communications proves that is happening in this interviewed recorded at the 2011 MTA Annual Convention. Appropriately enough, the theme of the show was, “There’s an App for that.” Anderson talks about the motivation behind the iPhone app they developed, how it works with their…
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A Conversation About Cloud Services
< With over 25,000 business customers, the superficial view would be to associate 8×8, Inc. as a provider of VoIP services. At its core, however, 8×8 is a provider of cloud-based services, moving the PBX out of their customers’ offices and into 8×8’s cloud. 8×8 has extended this cloud-based reach into data services through its acquisition…
