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Breaking Down Silos and Unifying The Experience
A theme of the Parks Associates’ Smart Energy Summit was the cloud as central to smart energy realities. The inherent nature of cloud computing, coupled with broadband, will break down the silos between different types of services. Melissa Duchin, Research Analyst for Parks Associates, discusses this and other take-aways from the Smart Energy Summit in…
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Marketing Smart Energy
The rumors that Austin will be Google’s next fiber city makes sense, given Austin’s high-tech culture and workforce. What might not be so obvious is the role their municipal utility could play in facilitating a gigabit network. Austin Energy has been an innovative; being one of the first to deploy smart meters and the associated…
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Bridging the Devices Inside and Outside the Home
Harmonizing the disparate devices in the home and making it simple for service providers to be the IT manager of consumers’ home networks is what Melissa Simpler of Affinegy discusses in this interview at the Smart Energy Summit. She explains how the TR-069 standard and its Auto Configuration Server (ACS) reaches beyond the home and…
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A Tool for Finding Energy Efficiency Improvements
Rory Jones compares what is happening in the utility business as to what happened to the telecommunications industry after the 1996 Telecommunications Act. In this context, Jones indicates that it is more important than ever for utilities to be able to reach out to consumers. Their tool allows the consumer to see a business case…
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Protected: 2013 Smart Energy Summit Summary
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