PRESS RELEASE: (Boston, MA) September 21, 2010 – Powerhouse Dynamics, provider of the eMonitor (trademarked), the first intelligent, circuit-level home energy management solution, announced today that the eMonitorTM has integrated with Google PowerMeter to become a Google PowerMeter Integrated Device Partner.
The eMonitor online dashboard remains available for customers to view more detailed real-time power [...]
The Centre for Integrated Photonics Ltd., or CIP Technologies, will be focusing its theme on improving the energy efficiency of photonic components at the ECOC trade show in Turin, Italy.
“Whilst it is recognised that broadband provides a route to save energy from travel substitution, and provide more efficient ways of working, it does not come [...]
Qualcomm says its Mirasol displays, which use reflective technology to display the spectrum of colours instead of active lights, can reduce the carbon emissions from gadgets over their life time of use.
The Mirasol display technology works by mimicking the wings of a butterfly, which basically have no colour on their own, but reflect specific wavelengths [...]
A university researcher has called for telecommunications operators to offer up their subsea cable infrastructure to help with climate monitoring. John Yuzhu You, a scientist at Sydney University, says that submarine cables laying at the bottom of the sea can help climate change scientist monitor key changes in world’s environment, including ocean currents, salinity, seismology [...]
PRESS RELEASE: BEND, ORE, USA, August 9, 2010 – IdaTech plc (AIM: IDA), a global leader in the development and manufacture of clean and reliable PEM fuel cell products for the critical backup power market is pleased to announce the Phase III roll out of the latest generation hydrogen backup power fuel cell systems on [...]
Orange, Connecticut-based, (not-California-based) Tangoe, Inc., has launched a new mobile device reuse-retire-recycle program called, Tangoe MobileRenew. According to Tangoe, the service offers much more than just the recycling of corporate mobile communication devices environmentally, but provides enterprises with a “secure, compliant, and financially beneficial means” of handling all end-of-life mobile devices.
“Organizations that have struggled to [...]
A new technology that can save as much as 80% on Ethernet networks is now being finalised by the industry. The new standard, called Energy Efficient Ethernet or EEE – also dubbed IEEE 802.3az, brings in a feature called, “low power idle mode,” which allows network equipment to save energy when no carrying traffic.
According to [...]
I came across this site with a video of Vint Cerf talking about smart grids at ConnectivityWeek.
Part 1
The presentation by Cerf is entertaining and full of anecdotes about the early days of the Internet. He obviously has put some thought into smart grids, describing it as a ‘massive transformation’ and ‘such a complex system’, and [...]
The Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solution, or ATIS, says it will soon announce a standard methodology for measuring the efficiency of wireless base stations.
The news comes just weeks after ETSI, or the Europe Telecommunications Standards Institute, announced a similar standard of measurement called, Energy Efficiency of Wireless Access Networks.
As we noted a while back, the energy industry is becoming a lot like the telecoms industry.
From what was traditionally national grids, the energy sector is going increasingly cross border. The notion is not new since subsea power transmission cables have been in place to deliver energy from power rich markets to power starved countries, [...]
Recent tweets
Nokia Siemens Networks is looking to revolutionise the mobile network with is Liquid Radio architecture, which not only promises to re-architect today’s base station infrastructure, but also to ultimately bridge the gap between highly specialise (and expensive) telecoms equipment and commoditise (cost competitive) computer components. Green Telecom Live talks to Mike Murphy, head of Technology [...]
Interview with Telenor Connexion: Inside the world of M2M
Telenor Connexion, the unit of the Telenor Group focused on the machine-to-machine market, has been developing and deploying M2M applications for customers for the past decade. Green Telecom Live speaks with Gwenn Larsson, head of marketing at Telenor Connexion, about what makes M2M different from the rest of the mobile industry and the kinds of [...]
Verne Global outlines Iceland data centre plans
Two years after we first published the Icelandic government’s plans to promote the building of data centres on its shores, a venture capital-backed start tup, Verne Global, is looking to make it a reality.
Verne Global, backed by General Catalysts from Boston, Novator in London and the Wellcome Trust, is now constructing a wholesale data centre [...]
Next gen data centre architecture Part 2: Cisco’s Unified Computing
Cisco this month unveiled what some company executives dubbed one of the biggest announcements for the network equipment maker – ever. With the announcement of its Unified Computing, Cisco officially enters the computing space, although not quite as previous speculation in the industry had outlined. Instead of just producing its own blade server, Cisco unveiled [...]
Next gen data centre architecture Part 1: Juniper’s single switching fabric
In the past couple of weeks, cloud computing has really taken off, with both service providers, server makers, and switching vendors all making big announcements on service deployments and new gear designed for cloud operating environments.
Specifically, both Juniper and Cisco made significant announcements in their vision of a next generation data centre environment that can [...]