By Kate Galbraith
Idaho has lately made a strong showing in energy efficiency: the state was rated “most improved” in a recent energy-efficiency survey, and also topped a Pew survey last month for fastest green job growth.
News ~ Energy & Resource Management
2 July 2009 |
M2M Communications & Rocky Mountain Power win 2009 Value Chain Gold Award from M2M Magazine
Chicago, IL – (June 16, 2009) – M2M Communications, a leading supplier of web-to-wireless monitoring and control solutions, has received the prestigious M2M Magazine Value Chain Gold Award (www.m2mmag.com) for its ongoing project with Rocky Mountain Power. The M2M industry has expanded from a niche technology to a far-reaching market with thousands of applications.
10 April 2009 |
M2M Communications Announces Agreement with Idaho Power for Irrigation Load Control Services
Boise, ID — April 07, 2009 — M2M Communications, a leading supplier of web-to-wireless monitoring and control solutions, signed a contract with Idaho Power to provide irrigation load control services utilizing M2M Communications’ Lodestar system technology. Idaho Power provides electricity for 487,000 residential, business and agricultural customers in a 24,000 square-mile service area in southern Idaho and eastern Oregon.
7 January 2009 |
Idaho's Agriculture and Technology Industries Could Help Lead Us Out of the Downturn
THE IDAHO STATESMAN — TOO OFTEN, IDAHOANS HEAR about the differences between rural and urban Idaho. These differences are regularly couched as the state's old economy versus its new economy, and specifically as agriculture vs. technology. In a time of declining state revenues and a tough federal economic situation, it is more important than ever for Idahoans to focus on our similarities and on how we can work together to weather the current economic crisis.
24 August 2008 |
Web-to-wireless system helps manage peak power demand
Idaho Business Review — Monday, August 25, 2008
During southeast Idaho’s hot, dry summers, as much as one-third of the region’s base-load power demand comes from the massive irrigation pumps that keep its agricultural industry alive.
But sharing the grid are tens of thousands of air conditioners and fans, all of which get cranked up at the same time, often outstripping a utility’s ability to provide enough power.
1 May 2008 |
Irrigation Load Control: A Program of Power
Potato Grower — The ins and outs of load control.
Nationwide there is a growing appetite for utility-sponsored irrigation load control. Following is a take on what growers and/or those in a position to advise growers need to know before leaping into utility-sponsored irrigation load control programs.
1 January 2008 |
M2M Communications: Energy Management for New York City
As the population of a city grows, the demand for energy, such as natural gas may outgrow the capacity of the distribution system. Enter energy management solutions by M2M Communications. Utilizing a web-to-wireless remote monitoring and control product with an integrated Multi-Tech SocketModem®
1 July 2007 |
Aeris Selected to provide Wireless Services for M2M Communications
San Jose, CA — July 1, 2007 — Aeris® ( www.aeris.net ), the leading network services provider for wireless machine-to-machine (M2M) fixed and mobile communications services, today announced that the company will provide its CDMA services to M2M Communications, a leading supplier of M2M monitoring and control systems.
1 July 2007 |
Connecting Wireless Solutions to Business Strategy
Mobile Enterprise — Wireless M2M Over the next 18 months, Rocky Mountain Power will deploy 4,000 custom-designed load control units from Kyocera and M2M Communication that will enable the utility to efficiently balance electrical power supply and demand between agricultural and residential customers.
Rocky Mountain Power, based in Boise, Idaho, services agricultural customers in parts of Idaho, Montana,
1 June 2006 |
Unmanned Systems Down on the Farm: Dull, Dirty, Dangerous, Demanding
Auvsi — Farming seems to present a perfect challenge for unmanned systems: The work is sometimes dull, often dirty and occasionally dangerous.
Not only is the vast area of land a concern, but different crops have respectively different planting, watering, fertilization and pest control needs.