Nearly a year ago, Comcast first announced that it would establish a data usage tracking meter to help its broadband customers determine the amount of data being used on their accounts, especially ...

The 40,000 CPS Energy customers who've had “smart meters” installed now can check their energy use in near real-time on CPS' website. The new online feature allows customers to see how much energy ...

With smart-meter rollouts progressing apace, energy companies are shifting their focus from rollout logistics and politics to identifying ways to utilise smart-meter data for everything from better ...

After we posted about National Grid’s smart meters coming to Buffalo, our comment section filled up fast. We went through ...

You probably know that Comcast is hitting subscribers with overage charges of $10 when they exceed their 300GB monthly data caps. But can customers trust Comcast to measure Internet usage accurately?

Verizon Wireless is facing questions about the accuracy of its data meter after a series of newspaper stories on customers who were charged big overage fees after unexplained data usage increases. The ...

Phil Goldstein is a former web editor of the CDW family of tech magazines and a veteran technology journalist. In late July, as Utility Dive reports, the Illinois Commerce Commission (ICC) finalized ...

Atlanta-based Southern Company is using the Itron Enterprise Edition Meter Data Management (MDM) system to support automatic meter reading (AMR) billing of approximately 60,000 residential and ...

Power meters like the Kill-A-Watt are great for keeping track of energy usage, and are also very hackable. The Kill-a-Watt in particular puts out analog signals proportional to current and voltage, ...

Smart meters have become a fixture of UK utility networks and as their growth continues across the nation, so does the data traffic carried on them. Research from the Data Communications Company (DCC) ...