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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...

Iotcity Itron and Omron Creative Labs Collaborate to Enhance Smart Cities and Public Safety Omron Creative Labs of Omron Electronic Components LLC and Itron Idea Labs will be teaming up to...

Electric VEEMO and James Edson Itron Idea Labs Attends LA CoMotion Leadership Conference As an entrepreneur-in-residence for Itron Idea Labs, I was excited to be able to represent our organization...

iStock 1165058709 Itron Idea Labs @ CES 2020: Innovating for a Sustainable Future With 275 cities adopting energy and water mandates since 2017, utilities, cities and countries across the globe are...

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...

iStock_89480731_MEDIUM Why Itron Idea Labs? I just got a Google Home – you know, the speaker you can talk to and it will play music. It tells me what the outside temperature is or what a cup of...

EV_Charging Will Your Lights Be on When the Power Goes Out? On March 11, 2011, the Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan was damaged by an earthquake and tsunami, resulting in widespread and...

communityshirts 5 Ways to Help Houston on Your Trip to IUW Technology advancements have forever changed the way we communicate, and through social media, we’re more connected than ever. In times of...

Itron Utility Week 2021 Logo Concepts_Final_Horizontal_EMEA Addressing Changes and Empowering Innovation in EMEA Our industry is facing some big changes—such as new regulatory requirements for...

Day in the Life at Itron Inspire 2023 A Day in the Life at Itron Inspire 2023 Itron Inspire is officially underway in San Antonio, Texas! Itron Inspire is officially underway in San Antonio, Texas!...

Itron Utility Week 2021 Logo Concepts_Final_Horizontal_APAC Addressing Infrastructure Pressures in Asia-Pacific We’re excited for Itron Utility Week to make its debut in the Asia-Pacific (APAC)...

mobile image A Big Picture Session: Protecting Utilities from the Risk of New Technologies with Outcome-Based Solutions It’s day two of our Knowledge Conference at IUW, and this morning, we heard...

Women Who Inspire Amplifying Women in Energy and Water At Itron Inspire The Women Who Inspire session (formerly known as Women in Utilities) is a crowd favorite at Itron Inspire, and for good...

analytics 3 Analytics and Advanced Applications are Transforming the Smart Grid and Networks Earlier this week, we talked about the upcoming Itron Utility Week (IUW) and two of our exciting...

Itron Utility Week 2021 Logo Concepts_Final_Horizontal_EMEA Bringing Our Premier Customer Event to EMEA For many years, Itron has collaborated with cities and utilities in Europe, Middle East and...

IMG_6722 Cathodic Protection, Customer Portal Added to Itron Analytics Suite Two new ways to utilize AMI networks and data to extract more value out of existing assets. To complement Itron’s new...

IUW KC 011 Break! The IUW Knowledge Center Gathers People to Connect, Converse, Collaborate The whole Itron portfolio. The dedicated people who helped create it. The customers who use it at work to...

Week of Resourcefulness 2023.jpg Celebrating a 'Week of Resourcefulness' with Discovery Education at Itron Inspire Exploring a smarter energy and water future begins with education. Exploring a...

Itron Inspire 2023 Partners Blog Connecting with Itron Partners at Itron Inspire 2023 The Itron Inspire 2023 Knowledge Conference will provide attendees with a unique opportunity to learn – from...

Celebrating Itron Customers Celebrating our Customers for Creating a More Resourceful World At this year’s Itron Inspire, we were delighted to recognize our customers who are setting an excellent...

135 Developing the Next Generation Utility Workforce and Inspiring Leadership Today marked the second day of the #IUW17 Knowledge Conference and we started the morning with another great general...

Itron 765x500 Don’t Show Me Big Data, Show Me the Right Data The second Big Picture Session we attended today was “Don’t Show Me Big Data, Show Me the Right Data.” The session was moderated by Jill...

Inspire APAC Recap Blog Image Driving Digital Transformation at Itron Inspire APAC 2022 Our second annual Inspire APAC 2022 – Itron’s customer and partner-focused event where we explore the...

Itron Inspire 2023 Day One Recap Day One of Itron Inspire: Powering the Energy Transition Itron Inspire 2023 is off to a great start! Itron Inspire 2023 is off to a great start! We’re feeling...