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Smart Cities Technology Hub to Open in New York

August 27, 2013August 27, 2013 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

The SUNY College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (CNSE) has acquired the landmark Kiernan Plaza in downtown Albany, NY, in a bid to create a hub for smart cities technology companies. The $30-million CNSE-led initiative, identified as a priority project by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo’s Capital Region Economic Development Council ... Read more »

IBM’s Hybrid Renewable Energy Forecasting Integrates Weather Data into Power Projects

August 16, 2013 by Paul Nastu

IBM has released an advanced power and weather modeling technology that will help utilities increase the reliability of renewable energy resources. The system combines weather prediction and analytics to accurately forecast the availability of wind power and solar energy. The “Hybrid Renewable Energy Forecasting” is expected to enable utilities to ... Read more »

City Taps IBM to Boost Water, Transportation Efficiency

August 14, 2013August 14, 2013 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

IBM has inked an agreement with the city of Da Nang, Vietnam, which will use the company’s technology to manage its water and transportation infrastructure. Using IBM’s Intelligent Operations Center, the Da Nang government aims to make the city’s infrastructure more efficient. The software provides a summary of events and ... Read more »

Granular Weather Forecasting Permits More Renewable Energy on Grid

August 13, 2013 by Linda Hardesty

IBM has created a modeling technology that combines weather prediction and analytics to forecast the availability of wind power and solar energy to enable utilities to integrate more renewable energy into the power grid. IBM’s Hybrid Renewable Energy Forecasting (HyRef) uses weather modeling capabilities and cloud imaging technology. For wind ... Read more »

Oracle Study Says Utilities Not Seizing Smart Grid Data Potential

July 26, 2013July 26, 2013 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

The majority (83 percent) of North American electric utilities are unprepared to manage the big data influx, according to an Oracle study. Utilities are, however, more prepared to manage the smart grid data deluge today than they were a year ago, with 17 percent responding they are completely prepared, up ... Read more »

Wind Energy Produces Water, Halves Cost

July 23, 2013July 22, 2013 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

US companies Associated Wind Developers and Water Management Group have developed a technology that they say can provide low-cost freshwater. Wind4Water partners wind turbines with water desalination plants to create a pre-engineered, modular facility that the companies say can be deployed around the world to address the global water shortage. ... Read more »

Navigant Research Smart City Suppliers Leaderboard

IBM, Cisco ‘Top Smart City Technology Vendors’

July 12, 2013July 12, 2013 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

IBM and Cisco are the top smart city suppliers, positioned to become global leaders in the market, Navigant Research says. The firm forecasts that the global smart city technology market will grow from $6.1 billion in annual revenue in 2012 to $20.2 billion by 2020. Smart cities integrate technology into ... Read more »

Cortec Technology Film Uses Recycled Resin

June 6, 2013 by Leon Walker

Cortec Corporation has launched the latest version of its VpCI 126 Blue high-technology films and bags that contains a higher content of recycled resin than earlier products. The new version of VpCI 126 Blue includes recycled internal scrap in its formula, making the whole regranulation process more energy efficient, and greatly reducing ... Read more »

Lux: Solar Market to Recover From Woes

May 31, 2013 by Leon Walker

Overcapacity and poor margins have bankrupted a multitude of solar suppliers and forced corporate investors out of the market over the past two years, but the industry is set to recover quickly thanks to converging supply and demand according to Lux Research. Profit margins will recover as oversupply plummets in 2015, ... Read more »

Contract Wins: Waterfund, IBM, BioteQ, Teck, Codexis

May 28, 2013 by Leon Walker

Waterfund and IBM have signed an agreement with the Ministry of Water and Environment of the Republic of Uganda that makes the country the first in Africa to become a member of the Water Cost Index. Waterfund, with IBM acting as calculation agent, will work with the Ministry of Water and Environment to calculate the cost of ... Read more »

IBM, Arad Group Use Big Data to Cut Water Use

May 21, 2013May 21, 2013 by Kirsten Korosec

IBM has teamed up with Arad Group to develop a product that will help utilities and water companies use big data and advanced analytics technology to better manage drinking water. IBM is working with Arad to integrate the latest analytics algorithms into the company’s automated meter system software, which will ... Read more »

Efficiency ‘Joins the IT Revolution’

May 3, 2013 by Tamar Wilner

Building efficiency is only now joining the information revolution that has changed how so many industries operate, according to a Greentech Efficiency report. While information quality has dramatically improved for sectors such as transportation – for example, by allowing companies to track shipments on a granular level – such web-based ... Read more »

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