As well as smart lamps, IKEA is dipping its toes even further into the audio waters, unveiling its tiny but dead cheap ...

Cities are home to more than half of the world’s population -- and they are expected to add another 2.5 billion new residents over the next 30 years. In anticipation of this growth, cities are turning ...

The future of the city is smart and in some U.S. cities — like Columbus, Ohio; Kansas City, Missouri; San Antonio, Texas; and Spokane, Washington — the present is already one of increased connectivity ...

Comprehensive module family: Cat.4, Cat.1 bis, Cat M, and 5G RedCap-ready products, offering flexible options for diverse network environments. Global smart metering deployments: Fibocom's Cat.1, ...

A few years ago, I covered SMARTReporter, a simple, free utility for monitoring your drives’ Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology (SMART) status. As I explained at the time, SMART is ...

A new study of the extent to which “smart utility meters” can improve energy efficiency in manufacturing finds that the willingness of managers to actually make use of the technology is a key driver ...

Wylie Wong is a freelance journalist who specializes in business, technology and sports. He is a regular contributor to the CDW family of technology magazines. The city of Houston is no stranger to ...

Electric utility providers PPL and Met-Ed have spent millions of dollars on smart meters installed on customers’ homes or businesses. They might have to spend untold dollars more on replacing some of ...

Water utilities have begun eyeing cellphone towers and even cable TV providers as possible transmitting sources for the millions of daily water meter readings they receive with "smart meters." Think ...

SparkMeter, a provider of grid management services, equipment, and software solutions, today closed an $12 million funding round. A spokesperson told VentureBeat the funds will be used to launch the ...

Andy Roehr is a vice president in Capgemini’s Smart Energy practice, where he works with clients to help them prepare their businesses for a rapidly evolving energy and environmental economy. An ...

These solutions demonstrate how Fibocom's secure, scalable, and energy-efficient connectivity technologies are enabling the next generation of smart metering and utility automation. Fibocom, founded ...