Cisco Smart Grid Technology for Americans to Consume Less Energy

Cisco believes that networking technology can change how the world manages its energy and environmental challenges. Its vision is to enable an end-to-end, open standards-based, communications platform that supports new models of energy management, and by working with utility customers and an ecosystem of partners, Cisco hopes to create an energy infrastructure for the 21st century that brings about economic as well as environmental benefits.

As part of this vision, has unveiled new technologies that build on its recently announced Connected Grid portfolio (an end-to-end approach to the smart grid, within which substation automation technologies help utilities better manage electricity transmission and distribution) helping consumers and businesses better monitor and manage their energy consumption for cost and carbon savings.. Read More [via irishdev]