Jul 29, 2020 | AclaraONE, Data analytics, Featured
The global COVID-19 pandemic is changing how we live and work in ways that are not yet well understood. Fear-based behavior modifications like additional hand-washing and social distancing may become ingrained in our culture, much like the 1918 Spanish flu epidemic...
Jul 14, 2020 | AMI deployments, Electric utilities, Featured
Implementing advanced metering infrastructure using wireless RF-based networks poses special challenges for rural electric cooperatives. Many cooperatives stretch across thousands of miles, with great distances between individual meters and groups of meters. This fact...
Jul 7, 2020 | AclaraONE, Featured
With our newest software headend solution, AclaraONE™, we have brought a host of new capabilities to our customers, based on their requests and feedback to us. These include the abilities to collect data from all devices in the distributions network, to view and use...
Jun 29, 2020 | Featured, Water utilities
Advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) has reduced labor requirements, improved customer service and billing, and provided a baseline of information for better data management. But how much more can AMI do, and how can water utilities take maximum advantage? Check out...
Jun 5, 2020 | AclaraONE, Featured
As of this past January, Google had some 500 million people using its virtual assistant, Google Assistant, every month. Last January, Amazon was boasting that it had sold 100 million devices that let people have their virtual assistant, Alexa, turn off lights, turn on...
May 28, 2020 | Data analytics, Electric utilities, Featured, Grid monitoring
Have you ever gotten stuck in traffic? You know there’s a problem, but you can’t see far enough ahead to know what it is or the best options for avoiding a three-hour delay. Electric distribution engineers face a similar problem. The decades-old substations and major...