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The utility sector faces ever-shrinking revenue streams and an on-going battle to manage CapEx and OpEx efficiency; predictive maintenance, risk assessment and capital planning have never been [...]

In a new post on TechTarget’s IoT Agenda, SpaceTime’s CTO of IoT, Bryan Hughes, explains why one of the best network protocols for gathering data from far-flung and on-the-move [...]

The industrial internet of things (IIoT) already has a multitude of use cases across asset-intensive industries, with some industries faster out of the gate than others. Adoption of internet of [...]

The annual DistribuTECH conference is right around the corner, this year at the San Diego Convention Center from January 31 – February 2.  With over 11,000 attendees from 78 countries and over [...]

Despite some 2.6 million smart meters already being installed in the UK, it is the data infrastructure that is causing delays with the further roll out of smart meters in the UK, according to a [...]

Large power transformers (LPT) are the workhorses of the North American electric transmission grid, and many have lived past their life expectancy. The U.S. Department of Energy reports that [...]

Watering sidewalks wastes water.While human populations shift, migrate and grow, the amount of fresh water remains constant. (The only way to make large quantities of fresh water is desalination, [...]

Augmented reality can make a real impact in field service workers in almost any industry. For a specific example, let’s look at a field technician visiting a problematic transformer at a [...]

Pipeline accidents in Allentown, Pennsylvania in 2011 and Sissonville, West Virginia in 2012 destroyed homes, caused death and injury, and reminded us how critical careful gas transmission and [...]

Electric utilities, cable operators, pipeline companies, railroad, municipalities—all will tell you that it’s a jungle out there. Vegetation has a way of interacting with and interrupting the [...]