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iStock 1213495447 Working from Home as a Manufacturing Intern: The Yin and Yang I began working for Itron in June 2019, and during my time here, I have worked on a variety of projects involving gas...

Where Are They Now_NMB_F Where are They Now: City of North Miami Beach The City of North Miami Beach Water embraces AMI for remote meter reading and accurate leak detection. The City of North Miami...

2023 World Water blog World Water Day 2023: Conserving our World’s Most Precious Resource Climate disruption is becoming more apparent with every passing day, but one impact in particular is...

crypto1 Adventures in Cryptocurrency Last October, a conversation began in the Itron Idea Labs community around blockchain and what Itron might do with it in the energy space. Ideas were plenty,...

analytics 2 Analytics and Customer Portals Shine at CS Week 2018 testing 12345... At CS Week 2018 in Tampa, Florida, Itron hit the show floor and showcased our expanded portfolio, bringing to the...

Mohari Pico Power Plant Inauguartion_1_small 1 A Brighter Future for a Nepali Village In November, representatives and volunteers from Itron had the great opportunity to travel to Nepal to help...

iStock 1201855903 Animal, Societal and Artificial Cognition How does a society think? For that matter, how does cognition occur in any organism or superorganism? What is the purpose of cognition?...

innovation Bringing Innovation to Life: Caltech’s FLOW Rocket Fund Itron is proud to be a corporate sponsor of the FLOW Rocket Fund at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), which is now...

iStock 1006079022 Challenges in Removing Obstacles on the Path to IoT Companies such as Cisco, Ericsson and other players have been projecting the exponential expansion of connected IoT devices for...

barcelona2 Connected Cars Everywhere! Cars everywhere. Some, are a very similar to the ones I saw at CES (see my previous blog, The Connected World and Autonomous Cars @CES 2017) while some are new...

ces2018 Consumer, Commercial Needs Met at #CES2018 The Consumer Electronics Show 2018 is my re-introduction to the electronic industry’s show of all shows – the last time I was here was about 15...

lightbulb 1 Disruption Ahead Thomas Edison would have no trouble recognizing most of the component parts in any electrical generation and distribution network today. The technology that made the...

barcelona3 Figuring Out 5G One of the main topics I heard talked about at Mobile World Congress is 5G— the next generation cellular. I tried to forget everything I know about 5G, and I roamed the...

Deep_Learning Deep Learning: Get Ready for Another Revolution Deep learning—the use of multiple layers of wide neural networks to solve a learning problem—is hugely popular, but still a toddler....

CES_Shaun Drones, Robots and More – Oh My My first visit to the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) left my head spinning – figuratively and literally. To begin with, I was intrigued by the mass of...

cescar2 Going Zero to 60 at #CES2018 From the excitement in the air about rooms full of new tech to the chaos of navigating the pavilions with an expected new record attendance of approximately...

iStock 601375704 Improving Sustainability at Commercial and Industrial Companies: It Begins with Measurement As I read the news of those who hit the streets for the climate strike, I reflected on...

CESmachineintel In Search of Machine Intelligence @CES 2017 Day three at CES. I was on a mission to find machine intelligence, not a product but an ingredient technology. I was expecting to see it...

iStock 1039087980 Innovation and the Inception of Itron Idea Labs Nine out of 10 Fortune 500 companies in 1955 disappeared from the list by 2016. The average tenure of a Fortune 500 company...

Innovation Projects Innovation Projects: How to Determine Progress Innovation projects are different from product development projects. Many tools and processes have been developed and are...

iStock 1252264713 scaled Increasing Citizen Engagement in Smart City Planning Over the past six months, Itron Idea Labs has had discussions with cities to understand their biggest complications...

iStock 1014664366 Is My Smart Home Really Smart? I am a smart home geek. I have all the “smarts”: voice assistant/speaker, security cameras, lighting, fans/air purifiers and a thermostat. My home...

clean tech 2019 Itron Idea Labs at the Cleantech Open Global Forum I recently represented Itron Idea Labs at the Cleantech Open Global Forum held in Los Angeles at LACI, the Itron-sponsored Los...

clean energy 2 Itron Idea Labs Attends First-Ever California Climate Cup, Supports Clean Energy Itron Idea Labs continued its partnership with the Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator (LACI) this week...

blockchain Itron and Blockchain at CES 2019 Itron was among a number of companies highlighting blockchain technology and applications at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2019. A blockchain-based...

Iotcity Itron and Omron Creative Labs Collaborate to Enhance Smart Cities and Public Safety Omron Creative Labs of Omron Electronic Components LLC and Itron Idea Labs will be teaming up to...

Electric VEEMO and James Edson Itron Idea Labs Attends LA CoMotion Leadership Conference As an entrepreneur-in-residence for Itron Idea Labs, I was excited to be able to represent our organization...

iStock 1165058709 Itron Idea Labs @ CES 2020: Innovating for a Sustainable Future With 275 cities adopting energy and water mandates since 2017, utilities, cities and countries across the globe are...

barcelona Itron Idea Labs Takes Barcelona at the Mobile World Congress Among the more than 100,000 attendees at the Mobile World Congress 2017 is the Itron Idea Labs team. And alongside the mobile...

ces2018 Itron Showcases the Future of Smart Cities at #CES18 Providing a peek into the future, Itron showcased its vision of what it may be like to live in a city of the future from a consumer...

city cars traffic lights Itron Riva Streetlights: Sunglasses On! You might want to wear your sunglasses while reading the following... It all started in January 2017, at the Itron Sales Conference,...

iStock 1270792163 Joining the Age of Automation with Consumer-Enabled Data Collection Rapid technological advances are the norm in the 21st century. Entire industries have become obsolete in the...

clean energy Joining the Conversation Around Clean Energy As part of our efforts to stay abreast of innovations in the cleantech space, Itron Idea Labs is now a corporate sponsor of the Los Angeles...

CESrobertosunday Leaving Las Vegas @CES 2017 It is day four at CES and almost time to leave. It’s the King’s birthday, my twentieth time at CES, during CES’s 50th anniversary, and a great day to be...

MQTT Message Queuing Telemetry Transport for Sensor Networks I recently came across the MQTT-SN (Message Queuing Telemetry Transport for Sensor Networks) protocol while working on a project and...

cesday4 Speed Dating at #CES2018 Innovation is always the hot word at CES, but smart cities and smart energy made their debut this year in a big way. Itron Idea Labs was there to contribute to the...

San_Diego_Harbor Lots of Firsts at DistribuTECH 2017! I’ve been attending DistribuTECH for the last 10 years, and the only constant thing has been change. Maybe not rapid and fast-paced change like...

iStock 584487610 My Friend Went 100% Solar. . . Indirectly I was speaking with one of my friends recently and they were proudly telling me that they signed up for their utility’s 100% solar rate...

robots Sensory Overload: CES 2019 As my first CES event, sensory overload might be a good way to describe my initial visit to the showroom floor. I suppose because I've spent my entire career...

iStock 1148091793 To Move or Not to Move: Insights from CES 2020 Humans are designed to walk 12 miles per day, according to anthropologists. This dates back to when we roamed the Serengeti desert....

iStock 1029035836 We are Living in the Future: A Week at the Consumer Electronics Show I feel like the gap between what I would see in science fiction movies and what actually exists used to be...

iStock_000043138824_Medium What Itron Idea Labs Brings to Itron and the Industry Nine out of 10 Fortune 500 companies in 1955 disappeared from the list by 2016. The average tenure of a Fortune 500...

Roberto_CES Stranger Things at CES 2019 It is never boring at CES, from a technologies and products point of view. This year, I thought I would pay attention to strange things rather than specific...

LACI 2019 The Front Door for Cleantech Innovation in Los Angeles The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power’s La Kretz Innovation Campus is the front door for cleantech innovation in Los...

Itron 765x500 Accelerating the Integration of Variable Generation into the Electric Grid Recently, I was invited to speak at the Utility Variable Generation Integration Group Conference, which was...

Itron 765x500 European Utility Week 2014 Talks Smart Cities Exhibitions and sessions at the upcoming European Utility Week will highlight new demands for a sustainable future and offer the biggest...

IIoT Don’t Miss Itron and #IoTLive at #IoTWorld Itron is excited to yet again be participating and exhibiting at this year’s IoT World at the Santa Clara Convention Center on May 14-17. This event...

iStock 955763622 Industrial IoT Takes Center Stage at IoT World 2019 Next week, Itron heads to the IoT World Conference and Exhibition hosted May 13-16 at the Santa Clara Convention Center in...

smart city 6 Innovation in the Age of ‘Smart’ Tech Recently, I had the honor of speaking at the National Governors Association NGA winter meeting. For those who are unfamiliar with the NGA, it is a...

citygrid IoT at CES – More Than Just Buzz in the Energy Sector CES 2017 marks the 21st year since the term Internet of Things (IoT) was introduced. Since it first appeared in 1985, we have seen a...

Itron 765x500 Itron Brings Edge Intelligence to Internet of Things World Forum Itron Riva’s edge intelligence enables easy integration of third-party devices and real-time decision-making...

energy smart city IoT World Continued: Partner Engagement Demonstrated During IoT Live! Tour In last week’s blog post, we highlighted what we said on stage during IoT World. This week, we’re going...

Itron 765x500 Itron Highlights Collaboration with Microsoft on CityNext Initiative Smart City Expo World Congress in Barcelona During the Smart City Expo World Congress in Barcelona, Sharelynn...

Itron 765x500 Itron Showcases New 4G LTE Smart Metering Solution at DistribuTECH 2015 As the world becomes increasingly more connected, continual communication and access to data are becoming more...

Itron 765x500 Smart City Vision Reaches the White House: Itron Joins Team of Partners to make Envision America a Reality Cities and utilities across the country are facing a broad range of pressing...

NGA panel Smarter States, Smarter Communities Itron President and CEO Philip Mezey recently spoke to the importance of creating smarter communities at two national conferences: the National...

EVblog The Connected World and Autonomous Cars @CES 2017 Day two at CES was all about the cars—self-driving cars—a.k.a. Autonomous Vehicles (AV). AVs will change transportation as we know it by...

robertoCES Virtual Reality, Tech, Tools and Smart Energy and Water @CES 2017 CES day one. It’s been a crazy day of taking in the latest and greatest gadgets and technology in Las Vegas. As usual,...

Image A Transforming Energy Networks and Enabling Applications with OpenWay Riva The second session we attended today was “Transforming Energy Networks and Enabling Applications with OpenWay Riva,”...

ScreenHunter_319 Apr 12th Annual Energy Forecasting Meeting It’s been a couple weeks since the 12th Annual Energy Forecasting Meeting taking place April 2-3, 2014. As I reflect on the two days...