I have blogged extensively over the past few years about some of the workforce challenges that utilities especially in the developed economies are facing. These are often related to the aging workforce and in some […]
At the Second Annual Summit on Data Analytics for Utilities in Toronto, Brad Williams, Vice President of Utilities Industry Strategy at Oracle, presented recent results from a survey of of 151 North American senior-level utilities […]
At the Second Annual Summit on Data Analytics for Utilities in Toronto, Mathieu Viau, a researcher at Hydro Quebec’s IREQ research centre gave a presentation on how he has been using a semantic layer to […]
At the Second Annual Summit on Data Analytics for Utilities in Toronto, Lincoln Frost-Hunt, Director of Enterprise IT at Hydro One, gave a riveting presentation on how one utility has evolved from a company that […]
At the Space-Time Insight annual SI World conference this year, Dave Haak of Accenture gave a riveting overview of the research that Accenture has conducted on smart grid deployment including a survey of utility executives […]
Just about every industry from construction to utilities to roofers to insurance is being impacted, and often transformed, by the availability of high resolution Earth observation (EO) imagery from satellites, planes and helicopters, and UAVs. […]
Gartner defines the “Internet of Things as the network of physical objects that contain embedded technology to communicate and interact with their internal states or the external environment.” In 2009 2.5 billion personal devices “things” […]
At the South African Surveying and Geomatics Indaba 2013 today in Johannesburg today Trevor Ventor of Optron gave a very interesting presentation (by Peter Large who wsn’t able to make it to Johannisberg) on the […]