The benefits of smart metering for energy consumers and suppliers

The benefits of smart metering for energy consumers and suppliers

Businesses of all sizes are under steady pressure to reduce their power consumption – not just to mitigate rising energy costs, but also to meet green legislation requirements. Besides, stakeholders like investors, employees and customers increasingly judge a company by its ‘greenness’ as well as its profitability. However, gas and electricity meters can help business owners to meet these...

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IoT Cybersecurity for Smart Cities

IoT Cybersecurity for Smart Cities

We are currently living in a time where Spain’s municipalities are receiving lots of aid through European Next Generation funds including, among others, the water and agri-food PERTEs (Strategic Projects for Economic Recovery and Transformation). Projects relating to these funds are focused on the digitalization of the various sectors and verticals making up Smart Cities. Massive deployments of...

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5G Challenges in Smart Grid Electrical Distribution Networks

5G Challenges in Smart Grid Electrical Distribution Networks

The world and Europe are currently experiencing a context of climate emergency, energy scarcity and electrification of energy consumption. In this environment, electricity distribution networks face a challenge of continuous improvement with a focus on more efficient management of energy demand, generation, and distribution through increasingly complex power grids. The idea of the “Smart Grid”...

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IoT: Use cases and challenges

IoT: Use cases and challenges

After several years in which the growth forecasts for the IoT market were not met, 2019 exceeded expectations, and certain market analysts predict connected devices will increase by 21% in 2020. We can therefore say that the broader adoption of this technology is finally taking place, and this mass adoption comes with several questions:   What are and what will be the use cases? Smart...

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Smart tourism

Smart tourism

Now that the second decade of the 21st century is about to end, sustainability and digitalization have become challenges all city areas must face. With this in mind, the 40th FITUR edition, which just took place in Madrid, has greatly focused on the need to incorporate new technologies to tourist destinations and turn them into “Smart Destinations”. So as to meet the above mentioned challenges,...

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European Utility Week 2018: Smart Grids and more

European Utility Week 2018: Smart Grids and more

On November 6th, the European Utility Week 2018 (EUW18) was held in Vienna (Austria). The event is attended by numerous companies and industry experts and provides an opportunity for them to showcase their developments and solutions. One of the main objectives of this annual event is to achieve a simple transition towards low carbon content energy supply. For three days, you can visit the fair,...

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