Recently, Panasonic exhibited at DistribuTECH 2010, an electric transmission and distribution conference that covers automated and control systems, energy efficiency, engineering, demand response, power delivery equipment and water utility technology. This was an ideal venue for Panasonic because utilities companies were early adopters of rugged mobile computing technology due to the fact that their mobile [...]
A 2008 article in USA Today notes that, “Trees falling onto wires in storms or wires sagging in the heat into tree limbs are to blame for most of the major U.S. blackouts going back to 1996, according to the North American Electric Reliability Corp. (NERC). The institute estimates that 90% of weather-related outages are [...]
I have been fielding a lot of questions from utility customers lately regarding which form-factor is right for their mobile workforce – most recently at DistribuTECH 2009 in San Diego. These questions have lately focused on what type of device to deploy with their growing number of “walking workers.” These are individuals who are completely [...]
