In last month’s column, “Smart meters: the bigger picture,” I shared some bad news surrounding the national rollout of smart meters,...

Something has happened to the smart metering rollout here in the United Kingdom and, whilst I don’t necessarily want to be the bearer of...

Who’d have thought it – a humble battery has been all souped-up and offers a charge that perhaps was once thought unimaginable. Let me...

More and more, we are encouraged to be mindful of our energy use and with its increasing cost, I dare say, it’s become somewhat difficult...

Nowadays, Powerline Communications (PLC) has become a well-understood and established technology that enables data transfer over your...

Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) have mandated that all domestic and non-domestic premises are to enjoy the benefits of...

It certainly hasn’t been an easy ride for ZigBee! Its journey has, in fact, been a pretty bumpy one full of the usual potholes and...

We're all encouraged to minimise our energy footprint and we're certainly aware of the escalating growth in its cost. I've invested in...

I mentioned in last month’s post that I was all IoT’d out, yet I find myself looking at ‘smart meters’ this month and, alas, the...