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White Paper The San Antonio Water System (SAWS) is a public utility owned by the city of San Antonio, Texas. Its mission is to provide quality, reliable water and wastewater service at a reasonable cost. San Antonio Water System deployed Cisco Routed Access... [08 Jul 2008]
ConGES Consulting Embeds Security, Scalability, and Performance Into Real-Time Collaboration for Utilities
White Paper Multi-utility consultancy ConGES develops turnkey mobile solutions that enable field engineers working for regional energy and water providers to capture orders, measure consumption, and monitor assets using PDAs or laptops. [30 Apr 2008]
Sun Helps Keep Datacenters Cool, Efficient and Reliable for Fast-Growing Nevada Utility
White Paper The Las Vegas Valley Water District is a not-for-profit agency that provides water to Las Vegas and nearby communities. The company's challenge was to replicate production database for use by multiple development groups to improve storage... [16 Apr 2008]
Geographic Surveillance and Hotspot Detection for Homeland Security: Drinking Water Quality and Water Utility Vulnerability
White Paper New York City has installed 892 drinking water sampling stations. About 47,000 water samples are analyzed annually. The ULS scan statistic will provide a real-time surveillance system for evaluating water quality across the distribution system. [10 Apr 2008]
Company Gets Mobile Solution for Efficient Maintenance Management With the SAP NetWeaver Platform
White Paper N-ERGIE is the eighth-largest utility in the country and provides around 650,000 customers with electricity, gas, heat, water, and additional services. Customer orientation and service are of the highest priority for the Nuremberg, Germany - based... [19 Feb 2008]
Utility District Uses Integrated System to Streamline Processes, Boost Productivity
White Paper All drinking water and wastewater services in Commerce City, Colorado, originate with South Adams County Water and Sanitation District. Single-source support and increasing manual entry hindered productivity, leading South Adams County Water and... [08 Feb 2008]
Innovations in Remote Monitoring and Control
White Paper ACAM was created in 1907 to distribute energy and water to municipalities along Italy's Gulf of La Spezia and to the Lerici and Portovenere regions. The company's challenge was link main office to peripheral sites to permit real-time remote... [14 Jan 2008]
Five mobile trends to watch in 2008
News He said: "I think that's one of the things we'll see more of: attempts to squeeze costs out of the operation and move closer to an efficient utility - like water or gas - which can make lots of money obviously you do that by doing larges volumes... [09 Jan 2008]
Why must IT go green?
Comment And perhaps most of all, energy is no longer like water - nor for that matter is water. A carbon levy on utility bills in the UK adds further to the rise in fuel costs. It is about efficiency, says Stewart Baines. [03 Dec 2007]
One Laptop Per Child gets a boost from Peru
News Ivan Krstić, the director of security architecture for the OLPC project, said Uruguayan water and mobile phone utility companies have allowed the organisation to plant wireless access points on existing towers to facilitate the laptop's use. [03 Dec 2007]
Hot issue for green IT
Comment Many have revisited the idea of water cooling but this is very expensive and can lead to major issues in engineering and design of a system that fits in with the basic principles of the utility computing theory. [14 Nov 2007]
Informatica Helps Thames Water Maintain Safe Water Supply With Wiser Budgeting
White Paper Thames Water, the utility company serving the region, is faced with a continual demand for upgrading, replacement and refurbishment of its assets. It is estimated that the asset value alone of the company is in the region of £ 20 billion, yet it... [14 Sep 2007]
Winning Strategies: Outsourcing at Thames Water
White Paper As the largest water utility in the United Kingdom, Thames Water supplied 12 million customers across the 5,000-square-mile London and Thames Valley region. As a private company doing business in a highly regulated industry, Thames Water also... [05 Jul 2007]
Andy Hooper
CIO Profile At Thames Water, Hooper's brief under the Macquarie-led consortium - which bought the utility from RWE for £8bn last year - is to work more closely with the business to implement rapid changes to make Thames Water a more customer-focused company. [06 Jun 2007]
Thus sinks £13.6m deal
News Telco Thus has signed a £13.6m, five-year contract extension with water agency United Utilities Water (UUW). Thus will also provide outsourced managed solutions, mobile voice and data services, telemetry and voice services to the utility company. [21 May 2007]
