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Enel is one of the largest European utility providers, with a home base in Italy and subsidiaries in Spain, Russia, Latin America and Eastern Europe. In fact, Enel was the first utility company to roll out a large-scale smart metering project in Europe. The company’s rollout started at the beginning of the decade. By 2005, [...]
Centrica PLC is one of Europe’s largest energy providers, with a main presence in the U.K. (the British Gas brand). The company provides electricity and gas supply and technical services to around 14 million residential households and one million commercial customers. In 2009, Centrica began rolling out smart meters to its customers – the first [...]
Governments around the world continue to move quickly towards a smart metering system for residential homes and businesses to help users measure their power consumption and send that data back to the utility for billing and analysis. According to a recent report, “The Role of Rugged PCs in Successful Rollouts of Smart Metering Systems,” by [...]
Yorkshire Water manages 40,000 miles of water and sewage main lines in Yorkshire County, located in Northern England. It also supplies 1.24 billion liters of drinking water every day to local residents. In an effort to improve worker efficiency, the utility outfitted each of its water engineers and samplers with a Panasonic Toughbook. The company [...]
EDF Energy is one of the largest energy companies in the UK, generating around one-fifth of the country’s electricity and delivering it to around a quarter of the UK’s population via its electricity distribution networks. When EDF Energy needed a simple solution to replace an outdated paper system used by its field sales force, it [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
