It won't make the front pages, but there's important news from the electricity industry. They've just agreed on a standard for exchanging data between utilities and their customers. This means that the future for "smart meters" just got a whole lot more realistic.
Would you like to be able to reduce your organization's energy costs on a site by site basis? Then you need data about utilization on a site by site basis. Or would you like to move your consumption to a cheaper tariff? Then you need to know what power you're consuming when. It's data that drives smarts.
The Smart Grid Interoperability Panel (SGIP) is calling the standard *foundational*. This is a great way of describing such a significant data standard. Agreeing on the core data and its representation is a major step in empowering any industry. It enables everybody to innovate. I saw those smart meters at the Consumer Electronics Show earlier this year.
Smart Grid Panel Agrees on Data Exchange Standards link
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