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barcelona Itron Idea Labs Takes Barcelona at the Mobile World Congress Among the more than 100,000 attendees at the Mobile World Congress 2017 is the Itron Idea Labs team. And alongside the mobile...

ces2018 Itron Showcases the Future of Smart Cities at #CES18 Providing a peek into the future, Itron showcased its vision of what it may be like to live in a city of the future from a consumer...

city cars traffic lights Itron Riva Streetlights: Sunglasses On! You might want to wear your sunglasses while reading the following... It all started in January 2017, at the Itron Sales Conference,...

iStock 1270792163 Joining the Age of Automation with Consumer-Enabled Data Collection Rapid technological advances are the norm in the 21st century. Entire industries have become obsolete in the...

clean energy Joining the Conversation Around Clean Energy As part of our efforts to stay abreast of innovations in the cleantech space, Itron Idea Labs is now a corporate sponsor of the Los Angeles...

CESrobertosunday Leaving Las Vegas @CES 2017 It is day four at CES and almost time to leave. It’s the King’s birthday, my twentieth time at CES, during CES’s 50th anniversary, and a great day to be...

MQTT Message Queuing Telemetry Transport for Sensor Networks I recently came across the MQTT-SN (Message Queuing Telemetry Transport for Sensor Networks) protocol while working on a project and...

cesday4 Speed Dating at #CES2018 Innovation is always the hot word at CES, but smart cities and smart energy made their debut this year in a big way. Itron Idea Labs was there to contribute to the...

San_Diego_Harbor Lots of Firsts at DistribuTECH 2017! I’ve been attending DistribuTECH for the last 10 years, and the only constant thing has been change. Maybe not rapid and fast-paced change like...

iStock 584487610 My Friend Went 100% Solar. . . Indirectly I was speaking with one of my friends recently and they were proudly telling me that they signed up for their utility’s 100% solar rate...

robots Sensory Overload: CES 2019 As my first CES event, sensory overload might be a good way to describe my initial visit to the showroom floor. I suppose because I've spent my entire career...

iStock 1148091793 To Move or Not to Move: Insights from CES 2020 Humans are designed to walk 12 miles per day, according to anthropologists. This dates back to when we roamed the Serengeti desert....

iStock 1029035836 We are Living in the Future: A Week at the Consumer Electronics Show I feel like the gap between what I would see in science fiction movies and what actually exists used to be...

iStock_000043138824_Medium What Itron Idea Labs Brings to Itron and the Industry Nine out of 10 Fortune 500 companies in 1955 disappeared from the list by 2016. The average tenure of a Fortune 500...

Roberto_CES Stranger Things at CES 2019 It is never boring at CES, from a technologies and products point of view. This year, I thought I would pay attention to strange things rather than specific...

LACI 2019 The Front Door for Cleantech Innovation in Los Angeles The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power’s La Kretz Innovation Campus is the front door for cleantech innovation in Los...

iStock 1066422156 1 The Importance of Modern-Day Innovation For those of us who grew up with the Space-time continuum as defined by Dr. Emmett Brown (Doc Brown) in the Back to the Future trilogy,...

iStock_000039140748_XXXLarge The Importance of the Culture of Innovation A few weeks ago, I was on a panel with Microsoft Ventures and Providence Fund in Seattle, discussing corporate innovation...

edsonBlog6 1 The Robots of #CES2018 Autonomous vehicles, drones, artificial intelligence, augmented/virtual reality, robotics and smart cities are among the hottest topics at CES 2018 in Las Vegas....

iStock 616903584 What Does Itron Idea Labs Do? Imagine you are planning a trip from point A to point B to get there as quickly as possible in your car where you must arrive at a specific time for a...