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How two companies are building systems to scale reuse, which is vital for a circular economy

GreenBiz

In 2017, when LimeLoop, an IoT solution for sustainable e-commerce shipping logistics, started, it was in response to the amount of waste caused by e-commerce. And in 2010, the grocery chain banned the sale of plastic flat bottled water in an effort to eliminate even more single-use plastic from its stores.

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Why water companies choose LAISON for smart prepaid water meters

Smart Energy International

Prepaid water meters are not a new thing, even in Africa, but most projects failed before 2010. Amid the development of IoT technology and the popularity of Mobile payment in Africa, manufacturers started to promote smart STS prepaid water meters with different types of communication options, such as LoRa/LoRaWAN, NB-IoT, Bluetooth, etc.

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Plugging into electricity’s energy challenge

Envirotec Magazine

According to the International Energy Agency, global electricity demand rose by more than 6% in 2021, the largest increase since the recovery from the financial crisis in 2010. Despite popular belief, electrification does not always lead to a reduction in carbon footprint.

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Scale up micro-solid-state batteries to large EV cells? It’s not so simple.

Charged

Since then, it has grown quickly—it made an IPO on the London Stock Exchange in 2010, and now has operations in the US, China and Israel. For example, in the industrial IoT world, sensing equipment that goes inside semiconductor furnaces and growth deposition chambers. We are currently selling other prototype-level batteries.

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Off-Grid Power Sector Rides Out 2020, Readies For Place In Recovery Plans

GreenTechMedia

According to the UN’s Sustainable Energy 4 All program, the number of people without electricity fell from 1,150 million in 2010 to around 789 million by the end of 2019. Demand and to an extent, finance have been plentiful for those ready to put the work in. Its goal is to bring that number to zero by 2030 and it is off-track.

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The advantages of event-driven architecture (EDA)

Smart Energy International

Event-driven architecture can handle the millions of messages produced by smart meters and IoT devices. As electrification increases, as more IoT sensors, grid technologies and behind the meter innovations come on board, this flood of energy data will only grow. Today’s energy system is generating more and more data.

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New profiles to facilitate the roll-out of smart metering technologies worldwide

Smart Energy International

This M2G (Meter two Gateway) interface can either act in a “network-controlled mode”, which means that the data concentrator is the master node of the home network, and it is in charge of the bandwidth occupation, or in “interactive controlled mode”, which means the Gateway can also be the master node of the home network.