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...All that is required is for the houses to have smart meters installed, he says....
...to install the latest “smart” energy meters....
...WPP will also reduce is planned capex from £400m to v£300m....
...But you do see plenty of financial services “professionals” in the vulgar vehicles....
...Landis has grown more rapidly than that, and expects to continue doing so, That is partly because it has already shifted towards related services such as software and communications....
...Smart reads David v Goliath Large consumer goods companies are starting to feel the impact of their smaller, more innovative rivals....
...Italy was the first country to install smart meters in almost all households. Austria is the first European state to launch a smart meter solution linking the energy and telecoms sectors....
...The addition of “pay by bank” means Barclays’ corporate customers operating in retail, transport, utilities, local authorities and financial services can gain access to the app as a way to receive payments...
...The GSMA has already come up with an embedded Sim standard for the management of connections in the machine to machine market, where physical SIMs might not easily be changed in devices such as utility meters...
...Manufacturers of the technology have struck deals with utilities to offer their products to consumers....
...The net neutrality debate has taken on a David v Goliath flavour....
...Some big utilities are meeting the challenge head on, offering more services to their huge fixed installed base of customers. There is a big incentive for them to do so....
...programme for about 800,000 customers whose homes are equipped with smart meters that monitor usage....
...of consumer service....
...It wouldn’t be inconceivable to imagine using these currencies through a cellphone to top up a parking meter....
...“Social distinctions can be based only on common utility.”...
...Wales and West Utilities manages gas transportation assets and gas distribution as well as meter services throughout Wales and the south west of England, the Cheung Kong-led consortium said in a statement...
...The largest sectors will be utilities, automotive and transport, and security, with 1.3bn, 446m and 277m respectively....
...Perhaps both discovered that utilities preferred doing this sort of thing for themselves, with “smart” meters being introduced that strengthened the relationship between customers and providers as they went...
...clinical research group at a leading pharmaceutical company …or a senior executive at a utility seeking [understanding of] the data from smart meter and smart grid deployments.”...
...This could be used, for example, to wirelessly measure utility meters in homes, or keep an inventory of stock for a business....
...“Technology is critical in integrating those renewable sources into a grid that wasn’t built for that power,” says Michael Valocchi, energy and utilities industry leader for IBM’s Global Business Services...
...Also, it has more in common with Facebook than the usual “search algorithm v social network” contrast suggests....
...The company has installed some 23,000 automated smart meters across the city....
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