Muses of Murari

In continuation of last post on Smart Energy, I’ll add up couple of more points here.

Recently I read about the deal, between Vodafone Germany and Alcatel-Lucent over implementing utility metering solutions of the latter. In simple words, the electric meter at your home will no longer be a dumb device recording your energy expenditure. With Alcatel-Lucent’s solution, it can communicate to utilities back offices’ computers in real time via service providers’ network – DSL or wireless GPRS or LTE. That means you can see in real time, how much your home appliance eating up energy and thus helps you to reduce the energy consumption or schedule you consumption on low load period of day. So, with little planning, you can postpone or plan your washing machines chores at nights, where utilities can charge you for lesser amount. You may also be able to checkout your energy consumption pattern real time on utilities’ portal.

A win win situation for all. For you and me, it is reduction of energy bills as well doing our bit to conserve energy. For utilities, more modernization, reduced stress on their networks and more incentives from government for effective energy usage. Wait a minute, there is some other section that is getting excited -  Telecom players. They are actively engaging with utilities to get some pie in this perceptibly bigger smart energy market. In my previous post I mentioned about AT&T deal with a power meter company. Now,  Alcatel-Lucent partners up with Verizon Germany for smart meter services. It looks like, the Telcos are started gearing up to venture into non-traditional route to offer their services. The developments in this area is going to big in coming days and the ride it offers will be interesting too.

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