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Feature Story
The most common reaction to a story I tell of a contractor who lost equipment and then divulged that he had not immobilized it and had not done anything to prevent theft at the remote site, is “Serves him right!”
Mobile computing has had an enormous positive effect on worker productivity worldwide. However, the flexibility, time savings and productivity gains that mobile computing affords must be balanced against inherent security risks.
Product Focus
AMR / AMI
Though the technology took a few years to gain momentum, smart metering rollouts are rapidly increasing in North America, Europe and the rest of the world.
The worldwide demand for energy has been growing at a rate of nearly 2 percent, led by industrialization in developing economies like China and India and sustained consumption in Europe and North America.
Trico is an electric cooperative serving more than 38,000 active services near Tuscon, AZ.
The utility industry is tantalizingly close to crossing a communications chasm that has existed since electricity first coursed into homes more than 100 years ago.
Automation
Utility providers across the country are feeling the impact of today’s financial crunch on consumers. Nationwide, an estimated 15.6 million households owed almost $5 billion in utilities payments in March, according to the National Energy Assistance Directors’ Association’s 2008 energy survey.
Line Construction & Maintenance
Although one of its newest buildings, the Utility Line Building certainly is not the most imposing structure on the Northeast Community College campus in Norfolk, Nebraska.
John L. Wright started Wright Tree Service, Des Moines, Iowa, in 1933 with nothing more than $20 worth of tools, a second-hand car and unrelenting determination.
T&D / Automation
Transformer oil coolers play a critical role in keeping electrical generation systems reliable.
The electrical transformer is an essential link in the power distribution grid.
Water treatment plants are part of any community’s critical infrastructure.
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Editor's Letter
According to the National Equipment Register (NER), heavy equipment theft has increased by up to 20 percent every year since 1996.
