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The consequences of COVID-19 have been enormous, to both individuals and businesses alike. Over the past year, businesses have been focused on exploring creative ways to keep their employee’s safety at the forefront, while not allowing productivity to suffer. We continue to see employees work from home, and tradeshows and conferences transition to a virtual …
View this episode of TI’s Connect series Jeff Scheb,Wi-SUN Alliance board member and director of product management for connectivity and smart infrastructure at Landis + Gyr. Learn more about how L+G is using Wi-SUN® wireless mesh technology to bring more services to utilities. View the video.
For most of us, 2020 is a year best left behind, but, despite the challenges, Wi-SUN Alliance has continued to make great progress. Wi-SUN technology, particularly Wi-SUN FAN, has contributed to the growth of Internet of Things deployments, in smart cities and smart utility industries and we expect this to continue into 2021 and beyond. …
Texas Instruments recently published a post on why the reliability, scalability, security, and affordability of the Wi-SUN field area network (FAN) is a compelling option for activating, monitoring, and controlling IoT devices. Read the full post.
Today’s utilities are challenged to implement IoT and smart city initiatives to benefit their communities, while continuing to provide reliable, high-quality service to their customers. At the same time, funding can be very restricted in the current regulatory and investment setting. This makes interoperability crucial, as it enables utilities to integrate existing technology to support new initiatives, without …
Wi-Sun Alliance: Leading the Way to Interoperability Read More »
By Phil Beecher, President and CEO, Wi-SUN Alliance At this year’s DistribuTECH show, we saw strong evidence of the growing number of Wi-SUN FAN based products targeting smart city applications such as advanced metering infrastructure and street lighting. From the beginning, the Wi-SUN Alliance has implemented rigorous testing and certification programs to deliver secure, interoperable …
Delivering Interoperability with Wi-SUN FAN Certified Devices at DistribuTECH 2020 Read More »
By Leslie Mulder, President, Exegin. Historically Exegin has been one of the leaders in industrial grade IPv6 mesh networking technology, having engaged in some of the industry’s early efforts to use IEEE 802.15.4 radios to create IPv6 based mesh networks. In conjunction with Japan’s drive to introduce wireless communications systems for the utility industry the …
Exegin and Wi-SUN Alliance Members Demonstrate FAN Interoperability at DistribuTECH 2020 Read More »
A chilly and damp November evening may not have been the best timing for an outdoor event in London but it provided an ideal opportunity to ‘showcase’ the City of London Corporation’s next step into Smart City IoT, a 12,000 unit smart street lighting deployment built on Wi-SUN technology, to the media. We were privileged …
Wi-SUN technology provides the platform for City of London Smart City Initiative Read More »
By: Dr. HH Li, President of Vertexcom Technologies In the era of the IoT, it is necessary to achieve one object, one address and everything on the Internet, so that each device connected to the Internet can be identified by its own IP address, maintain network interconnection and interoperability, and perform any form of two-way …
Although the global share of electric mobility is still small, the electric vehicle (EV) fleet is expanding quickly as governments put initiatives in place and automotive manufacturers continue to make progress in developing EVs with greater range and more power.
No one can dispute that we have entered the age of the Internet of Things (IoT). Some industries are a few years into the adoption process, including smart cities and utilities looking to utilize the IoT for applications from smart grid and advanced metering to connected street lighting, to help deliver costs savings and drive …
Growth of IoT solutions within the Utility industry is growing considerably each year. There are many pitfalls and mistakes that can be prevented by understanding how to configure your IoT network early on. Which networks, what kind of devices, how to improve outage management, protect deployments against security breaches, ensure long lifecycles of devices and …
