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This news video explains National Grid's program to pay British companies cash to cut their electricity use in winter months to prevent blackouts. National Grid is a Council Global Partner.
Resources - 06/13/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Energy
The EPRI Smart Grid Demonstration Initiative was a seven-year international collaborative research program which studied many different aspects of modernizing the world’s energy grid. Twenty-four utilities from Australia, Canada, France, Ireland,...
Resources - 05/30/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Energy, Instrumentation and control
In this short video, Laurent Schmitt of Alstom Grid, a Council Global Partner, explains how big data and security are paramount to Alstom's business and future objectives for smart grid systems. He also discusses how Alstom's collaboration with...
Resources - 05/28/2014
Active Region(s): Main, Europe, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Energy, Security and privacy
According to Council Global Partner IBM, in five years the city will help you live in it. You'll play a direct role in the decision-making process, and your city will become a direct reflection of everyone who lives there. Every year IBM makes...
Resources - 05/23/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Analytics, Computing resources, Connectivity
In this video, Adam Shaw of News Super Videos visits Tianjin Eco-City - a city from scratch under development in north east China - to see how it plans to balance urban expansion and the impact on natural resources and the environment. Council...
Resources - 05/23/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Built environment, Economic development, Examples and case studies
Tens of billions of devices and systems are connecting in the Internet of Things, bringing revolutionary changes to cities -- improving traffic flows, boosting building efficiency and maximizing water use, for example. Listen to this Fortune...
Resources - 05/23/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Economic development, Connectivity
When a water audit found 39% of the water coming through the Town of Olds' supply line couldn’t be accounted for, it appeared leak repairs might recover enough water to delay the need for expensive infrastructure expansion. The town deployed a...
Resources - 05/10/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Water and wastewater, Analytics, Connectivity, Instrumentation and control, Examples and case studies
If you've wondered how self-driving cars would fare on city streets, this video is your chance to take a look. Google is testing its self-driving cars on the streets of Mountain View, California where its headquarters are located. For more on self-...
Resources - 05/09/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Built environment
The utility serving Madison, Tennessee used to read its water meters manually every other month, estimating usage in intervening months. Even so, the process took eight to 10 readers, in four to five cars, more than 20 hours. After switching to RF...
Resources - 05/06/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Water and wastewater, Instrumentation and control
London's famous Underground rail system has been around since 1863 but it remains today one of the world's most progressive. Watch the video below to learn how Telent, the company that governs the Underground's operation, is working with Council...
Resources - 04/22/2014
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Transportation