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Mohari Pico Power Plant Inauguartion_1_small 1 A Brighter Future for a Nepali Village In November, representatives and volunteers from Itron had the great opportunity to travel to Nepal to help...

iStock 1201855903 Animal, Societal and Artificial Cognition How does a society think? For that matter, how does cognition occur in any organism or superorganism? What is the purpose of cognition?...

innovation Bringing Innovation to Life: Caltech’s FLOW Rocket Fund Itron is proud to be a corporate sponsor of the FLOW Rocket Fund at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), which is now...

iStock 1006079022 Challenges in Removing Obstacles on the Path to IoT Companies such as Cisco, Ericsson and other players have been projecting the exponential expansion of connected IoT devices for...

barcelona2 Connected Cars Everywhere! Cars everywhere. Some, are a very similar to the ones I saw at CES (see my previous blog, The Connected World and Autonomous Cars @CES 2017) while some are new...

ces2018 Consumer, Commercial Needs Met at #CES2018 The Consumer Electronics Show 2018 is my re-introduction to the electronic industry’s show of all shows – the last time I was here was about 15...

lightbulb 1 Disruption Ahead Thomas Edison would have no trouble recognizing most of the component parts in any electrical generation and distribution network today. The technology that made the...

barcelona3 Figuring Out 5G One of the main topics I heard talked about at Mobile World Congress is 5G— the next generation cellular. I tried to forget everything I know about 5G, and I roamed the...

Deep_Learning Deep Learning: Get Ready for Another Revolution Deep learning—the use of multiple layers of wide neural networks to solve a learning problem—is hugely popular, but still a toddler....

CES_Shaun Drones, Robots and More – Oh My My first visit to the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) left my head spinning – figuratively and literally. To begin with, I was intrigued by the mass of...

cescar2 Going Zero to 60 at #CES2018 From the excitement in the air about rooms full of new tech to the chaos of navigating the pavilions with an expected new record attendance of approximately...

iStock 601375704 Improving Sustainability at Commercial and Industrial Companies: It Begins with Measurement As I read the news of those who hit the streets for the climate strike, I reflected on...

CESmachineintel In Search of Machine Intelligence @CES 2017 Day three at CES. I was on a mission to find machine intelligence, not a product but an ingredient technology. I was expecting to see it...

iStock 1039087980 Innovation and the Inception of Itron Idea Labs Nine out of 10 Fortune 500 companies in 1955 disappeared from the list by 2016. The average tenure of a Fortune 500 company...

Innovation Projects Innovation Projects: How to Determine Progress Innovation projects are different from product development projects. Many tools and processes have been developed and are...

iStock 1252264713 scaled Increasing Citizen Engagement in Smart City Planning Over the past six months, Itron Idea Labs has had discussions with cities to understand their biggest complications...

iStock 1014664366 Is My Smart Home Really Smart? I am a smart home geek. I have all the “smarts”: voice assistant/speaker, security cameras, lighting, fans/air purifiers and a thermostat. My home...

clean tech 2019 Itron Idea Labs at the Cleantech Open Global Forum I recently represented Itron Idea Labs at the Cleantech Open Global Forum held in Los Angeles at LACI, the Itron-sponsored Los...

clean energy 2 Itron Idea Labs Attends First-Ever California Climate Cup, Supports Clean Energy Itron Idea Labs continued its partnership with the Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator (LACI) this week...

blockchain Itron and Blockchain at CES 2019 Itron was among a number of companies highlighting blockchain technology and applications at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2019. A blockchain-based...