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Can You Read Me Now – Verizon’s Role in the Smart Grid
With its recent announcements at CES and yesterday’s announcement with eMeter, Verizon is leveraging its strengths in telecom to innovate in the arena of the smart grid. Ann Shaub of Verizon provides an overview of their approach to making the grid smarter in this exclusive video interview at Parks Associates Smart Energy Summit in Austin…
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The Complete Smart Grid
Chris King, a long-time veteran of the smart meter industry, discusses what is needed to realize the full potential of the so-called smart grid; we are closer than ever, but a few key things need to be in place. Chris is with eMeter, a company that provides the back end intelligence required to make sense…
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United in Technology for Aging
Revenues for technology and services for digital health services and associated aging in place is expected to triple by 2015, according to the latest research from Parks Associates. “The digital health industry has many subsectors, and near-term growth will be uneven across these segments,” said Harry Wang, director of Parks Associates’ health research team. "Adoption…
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1 Billion Served and Counting
Brian Jacquet, Director of Marketing for Roku, discusses who is using their product and how they got to 1 Billion views and 11 hours per week of playing time per device, while speaking at the Broadband Unlimited Conference at CES 2011. Interestingly, their demographic tends to be older and less geek-like than the typical over-the-top…
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2011 Smart Energy Summit Video Coverage
In a nutshell, smart energy is about doing more with the same or less energy, as well as making better use of alternative power sources. That would be the single sentence description of what was a crash course on the topic of "Smart Energy" at last week's Parks Associates' Smart Energy Summit. Viodi worked with Parks…
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The Social Electric Network
Scott Burns of Reliant Energy talks about the competitive retail energy market in Texas and the techniques they are using to engage customers in energy management. He discusses how they are leveraging the smart meters to benefit the consumer. He explains how electronic communications is an integral part of their efforts and how that effort…
