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Local company to launch 'smart' network appliances at Interop

Brisbane-based networking appliance vendor Opengear will launch a new range of "smart" routers and console servers and the Interop trade show in Las Vegas next week.

By Rodney Gedda | 03 May, 2011 12:03

Tags: appliance, Interop, Network management, Opengear, networking

Opengear grows export sales 50%

Infrastructure management vendor, Opengear, has revealed it grew its export sales by 50 per cent in 2010 and expects its whole business to increase at this rate through 2011.

By Dylan Bushell-Embling | 14 April, 2011 09:18

Tags: appointments, business, careers, export sales, Opengear

Smart micro-grid to debut in regional NSW

Houses in the Newcastle and Scone regions of NSW have been selected to trial battery-powered “micro-grid” which can increase energy efficiency and reduce the impact of outages.

By Rodney Gedda | 31 March, 2011 10:31

Tags: Ausgrid, batteries, EnergyAustralia, energy efficiency, NBN, power, RedFlow, smart grids

NBN fibre good enough for smart grids: EnergyAustralia

Power companies and other utilities may consider keeping their own fault-tolerant networks when the NBN is complete, but there is no reason why last-mile smart grid applications can't be run over the new fibre infrastructure, according to a technology manager at EnergyAustralia.

By Rodney Gedda | 28 February, 2011 11:08

Tags: EnergyAustralia, Energy Networks Association, NBN, smart grid australia, smart grids, Utilities

Mission-critical utilities to look carefully at NBN fibre

A fibre-based National Broadband Network will extend further than any existing utility network, but many mission-critical utilities for power and water will continue to run their own infrastructure to maintain higher data transport integrity and resiliency, even if the NBN is used for last-mile services.

By Rodney Gedda | 25 February, 2011 11:01

Tags: Energy Networks Association, fibre, Haliplex, natural disasters, NBN, Utilities

Utilities to meet NBN Co on future cooperation

The Energy Networks Association (ENA) will meet with NBN Co next month to discuss potential utility access to fibre broadband connections outside power and other energy companies' own core networks, which are likely to remain private.

By Rodney Gedda | 21 February, 2011 16:07

Tags: broadband, Energy Networks Association, NBN, nbn co, paul budde, smart grids, smart metering, Utilities

Stuxnet industrial worm was written over a year ago

A sophisticated worm designed to steal industrial secrets has been around for much longer than previously thought, according to security experts investigating the malicious software.

By Robert McMillan | 06 August, 2010 06:02

Tags: malware, security, Stuxnet, worm

Local network industry 'missing out' with NBN

Construction of the $43 billion National Broadband Network may be a boon for the services economy, but local networking providers feel left out with two companies saying the government-owned business isn’t doing enough for industry development.

By Rodney Gedda | 03 August, 2010 15:02

Tags: alcatel-lucent, broadband, fibre, Haliplex, manufacturing, NBN, networking

IBM invests in infrastructure sensing and analysis tech

IBM will develop technology to monitor and analyze the state of buildings, roads, water lines and other urban infrastructure in a new laboratory it is opening with Carnegie Mellon University.

By Joab Jackson | 29 July, 2010 03:16

Tags: IBM, industry verticals, popular science, Public utilities, sensor networks

Siemens: Removing SCADA worm may harm plants

Removing a dangerous worm that targets industrial systems could disrupt plant operations, Siemens Industry warned customers Thursday.

By Robert McMillan | 23 July, 2010 05:15

Tags: energy, industry verticals, malware, manufacturing, patches, scada, security, Siemens Industry, software

Microsoft's Home of the Future: A Visual Tour

Welcome to The Microsoft Home, where no wall or table in the house is safe from being a digital device.

By Shane O'Neill | 24 June, 2010 10:04

Tags: home automation, Microsoft, research and development

Sydney Water begins SCADA upgrade

Three years after announcing it would upgrade Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems at its filtration plants, Sydney Water will start an 80-week project scheduled to begin this year at the Nepean catchment.

By Rodney Gedda | 22 June, 2010 10:15

Tags: engineers, government, networking, nsw, scada, sydney water

Contractor pleads guilty to SCADA tampering

A former IT consultant for an oil and gas exploration company has pleaded guilty to tampering with the company's computer systems after he was turned down for a permanent position with the company.

By Robert McMillan | 24 September, 2009 07:24

Tags: physical security, scada, security

IBM middleware interprets data from RFID, other sensors

IBM on Tuesday introduced middleware that can gather data from a wide variety of networked sensors, analyze it, and feed it into other enterprise applications that can also use the data to make decisions.

By Stephen Lawson | 19 August, 2009 05:15

Tags: IBM, middleware, RFID, sensor networks

Trans-Atlantic Internet cables may be filled by 2014

Voracious Web surfers, e-mailers and downloaders will use up the trans-Atlantic cables that were overbuilt early in this decade within the next five years, forcing carriers to invest in new ones in a market that's become used to adding bandwidth cheaply, according to research company Telegeography.

By Stephen Lawson | 23 June, 2009 05:18

Tags: cables, internet, ocean cables, optical fibre

200 solar-powered network sensors to monitor rainforest

The CSIRO will install some 200 solar-powered, sensor network nodes over the next two years to helping rehabilitate rainforest in the Springbrook World Heritage precinct in south-east Queensland, the research group announced today.

By Rodney Gedda | 12 June, 2009 09:07

Tags: csiro, CSIRO ICT Centre, environment, sensor networks, solar power, wireless networks

Sydney girls school gets electronic roll call

Pymble Ladies' College, a girls secondary school in Sydney's north, has introduced an electronic classroom student roll call system to reduce administrative disruption for students.

By Rodney Gedda | 07 May, 2009 14:51

Tags: education, kiosks, schools

Italian earthquake spotlights early warning systems

In the wake of Monday's earthquake in Italy, scientists and researchers working on early warnings systems said that knowing about an earthquake even just a few seconds before it hits can make a big difference to people in a stricken area.

By Marco Tennyson | 07 April, 2009 06:37

Tags: early warning systems, Italy

Power grid is found susceptible to cyberattack

An emerging network of intelligent power switches, called the Smart Grid, could be taken down by a cyberattack, according to researchers with IOActive, a Seattle security consultancy.

By Robert McMillan | 24 March, 2009 07:04

Tags: hacking, power, smart metering

Power-saving building networks to get cheaper

The maker of components that link millions of sensors and control devices is launching a new generation of technology designed to make power-saving control networks affordable for small buildings.

By Stephen Lawson | 03 March, 2009 16:04

Tags: Echelon

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