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Sydney Water is on the market for a partner company that complements its existing IT capabilities and brings new capabilities to a project to design, build and run its Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Billing and Customer Relationship Management (CRM) solutions.

Whatever your stance on smart meters it is hard to argue that the intent is not honourable. They are supposed to allow people to control their use of energy, gas, and water, make decisions on which tariffs to use and have granular control over their costs.

The Water Corporation of Western Australia has gone live with the omnichannel customer engagement software suite, Customer Interaction Centre, (CIC) from Unified communications and IT services provider Interactive Intelligence Group.

Sydney Water has appointed Wipro consulting partner for utilities, George Hunt, as its new CIO.

Carpenters have an adage ‘measure twice, cut once.’ Something similar applies in IT.

Many Australians are interested in connected home services primarily for delivering and managing home security, energy and utility and health services.

Sydneysiders can keep abreast of planned and unplanned water outages in the city with a new online water map launched by Sydney Water.

The Internet of Things (IoT) home market is exploding across Australia, with adoption and spending on IoT home products and services forecast to grow eleven-fold over the next four years.

ICT services consultancy UXC has secured multi-year contracts with a combined value of more than $25 million with two New South Wales Government owned electricity companies, Ausgrid and Endeavour Energy.

The Australian arm of global digital communications infrastructure provider BAI has partnered with utility infrastructure systems and resource conservation company Sensus in a deal which the two companies say will transform the relationship between utilities and their customers.

China’s Internet Plus action plan, aimed at integrating the internet with traditional industries and fueling economic growth in the country, provides the backbone for creating innovative ways to develop smart cities, according to a senior executive of the massive China Internet portal, Tencent.

Getting a job and pursing a career path in different business or industry sectors may depend on the strength or weakness of a particular industry, and a newly released national report shows that 13 out of 18 industries have recorded growth in employment numbers over the last two years.

Panasonic has set up pilot projects with Australian energy companies to install its battery technology in solar-installed homes for the first time, generating efficient, environmentally responsible electricity to ‘shave’ concentrated energy demand.

AVG has released new versions of AVG PC TuneUp, AVG Cleaner for Android and AVG Cleaner for Mac. The first of those is a paid product, but two out of three ain't bad.

Energy retailer AGL has released a free smartphone app which it says will give its 2.55 million residential customers greater visibility and control over their energy usage.

Global smart energy solutions provider Silver Spring Networks has been selected by Western Australian utility Horizon Power to connect the company’s 47,000 customers to an Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) program.

Utilities can achieve cost savings of anywhere between hundreds of thousands and millions of dollars from the use of advanced analytics for forecasting purposes.

The Internet of Things (IoT) is booming with predictions that the 4.9 billion connected devices in use next year will jump to a massive 25 billion by 2020.

Smart meters are almost old hat in the cities of today, with the so-called smart cities of the future already starting to move well beyond the clever meters to ultimately deliver a whole host of technology-driven infrastructure such as intelligent and adaptive street lighting.

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