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The promise of Demand Response and Dynamic Pricing could save utilities billions in capital expenditure on peak demand infrastructure, and create synergies between networks, producers and customers that will assist in managing cost, and reducing environmental impact of power generation and consumption. SMi Group’s 2nd annual European Demand Response and Dynamic Pricing will cover the latest on the different stakeholder roles, consumer needs and actions, and the initiatives to shift consumer behaviour, enabling technologies, and specific programs in Europe and beyond.

We will address key Demand Response and Dynamic Pricing issues such as:
•             The most advanced European markets for demand response including Scandinavia, Ireland, France and the UK
•             European policy and regulation including a view from the OFGEM and CER Ireland
•             Legislative background to smart grids in Europe and the progress in the creation of a new enabling legislation
•             How are key UK Government policies including the Green Deal, ECO, the Retail Market Review and the Electricity Market Reform affect DR?
•             Smart meters, smart grids, the role of the aggregators including Kiwi Power
•             The importance of new forms of electrical demand such as heat pumps and electric vehicles, home automation and tariff models
•             You will hear case studies from: Northern Powergrid, DONG Energy, RWE Npower, Vattenfall, SSE plus many more

To view the conference programme and full speaker line-up, visit http://www.smi-online.co.uk/2012demandresponse20.asp

Alternatively, contact Andrew Gibbons on +44 (0) 20 7827 6156 or email agibbons@smi-online.co.uk

This high-level conference is designed for Directors of Operations, Smart Grids, Smart Metering, Planning, Asset Management, Engineering, Demand Response. Featured this year is Steve Widergren, who will discuss the recently released update to NIST Smart Grid Standards.

This international event will merge business (where is the money) and technology, and will focus on two Internet of Things cases: The individual and The Home.

Gert van Kempen, Managing Director, Smart Dutch and member of the IPSO Alliance will share the view on the Internet of Things market
The Smart Dutch metering system is an innovative intelligent metering system based on meshed radio frequency (RF) technology. The system reads individual (smart) utility meters at customers’ homes and premises at regular intervals and transmits the data to the suppliers’ gateway.

Meshed radio frequency (RF) communication is very reliable and relatively cheap – certainly in comparison to alternatives such as PLC, Ethernet and GPRS/CDMA communication.

The event exists out of two linked activities:

• The seminar will tackle social, technical, cultural and design challenges, discuss innovative solutions, show new business opportunities and will give an outlook into the future of Internet of Things for The individual and The Home.
• The exhibition will show Internet of Things products and services in its current and future formats

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TIA 2012: Conference and Exhibition — “Inside the Network”
This unique industry event addresses a range of business and technology trends relating to The Network Ecosystem —including Cloud Optimization, Green ICT, Security and Privacy, Small Cell infrastructure for Mobile Broadband, Connecting Communities, M2M Services — and many more.

With keynote presentations from AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson, Verizon CTO Tony Melone and dozens of other industry heavyweights, TIA 2012 is the can’t-miss opportunity for anyone involved in the ICT industry.

Visit www.tia2012.org to register today.

Members of the media are also invited.

For press credentials, contact Briana Ferrera at BrianaFerrera@rational360.com or 202-470-5374.

Co-located with TIA, IPSO will be present at CONNECTIONS. Sokwoo Rhee, Co-founder and CTO of Millennial Net, will be participating in the panel discussion “Building Interoperability among Home System Services and Devices” at the CONNECTIONS event co-located with TIA 2012 in Dallas, TX. His presentation and discussion will focus on how IP will enhance the interoperability of various home system devices and why IP will be the catalyst to the world of the “New Internet”. He will also talk about what IP’s role will be in bonding and orchestrating various connectivity standards for diverse applications.

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What if every light bulb had an Internet IP address? Since NXP Semiconductors N.V. NXPI +2.38% first raised the question at LIGHTFAIR International (LFI) nearly one year ago, interest in IPv6-enabled smart lighting has soared. The potential energy and cost savings — as well as the comfort, convenience and lifestyle benefits for the consumer — have mobilized a growing ecosystem of innovators in lighting, connectivity, energy management and home automation to enable and support wirelessly controlled intelligent lighting.

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M2M Forum (www.m2mforum.com), is the European event dedicated to the world of machine to machine communication and the Internet of Things (IoT), whose 11^th edition will take place in Milan on the 3rd of May. The Show offers since 2002 an excellent opportunity of networking and business contacts across M2M ecosystem.

In a single occasion a Conference, a showcase area and face to face Business Meetings will allows visitors to get updateson strategic opportunities, through the exchange with specialists, the best practices analysis and the meetings with solution providers.

Next edition will devote particular attention to M2M for Smart Grid. A special conference session will face topics as AMR-AMM & Smart Metering which see Italy as M2M country leader in Europe and major market especially in the implementations leading to Smart Grid for electricity and gas.

IPSO Members Fabien Castanier, of ST Microelectronics, will present “Breaking the barriers in the M2M markets: all-IP as the long term way to go”  a presentation focused on how IP can help overcome some of the M2M deployment key challenges and accelerate time to market by moving away from fragmentation across industries and enabling rapid solution development.

Luigi Cicchese, of Concept Reply, will  also be presenting at the conference.

Technology and innovation has changed the way we transact, operate and manage our buildings and M2M today. In buildings it’s all about using less energy, having lower operating costs, being safer, contributing to sustainable environments and delivering significant ROI. In M2M is about device connectivity, interoperability and creating new business value.

Join the many technology providers and explore the latest technology and innovations driving building operations and M2M today at the Niagara Summit. The Niagara Summit is the largest gathering of industry professionals and practitioners developing and deploying applications that are delivering better buildings and creating value based M2M solutions.

The Niagara Summit is one of the most important events of the year. And for good reason: There are unique opportunities for you to learn firsthand about the latest in technology; to hear what’s next with the technology and come away with actionable ideas you can apply in your own organization.

Register today at www.niagarasummit.com

Our Marketing Committee has been busy this quarter. Three press releases in the first two months have highlighted our new members, our latest interoperability efforts, and increased participation at industry events. The IPSO Alliance was a sponsor for the recent Parks Associates’ Smart Energy Summit. In addition we have had representatives speaking at key industry conferences, such as SICS’ Internet of Things Day in early February, the Amphion Forum in March, (hosted by IPSO member Mocana) and the IET Smart Metering Conference in April.  In April, the Alliance is sponsoring the North American IPv6 Summit and, in June, TIA 2012 in Texas and European Demand Response and Dynamic Pricing in the United Kingdom.

In response to our members’ requests, we are excited to be hosting our first European Members Meeting — our Spring 2012 meeting is being held in Paris, France. A great step forward in our growth, we hope to take this opportunity to further spread our message to the European community. In addition to strengthening our European ties, we hope to extend our efforts in the Asia/Pacific region this year through partnership with our current member companies.

Leveraging industry partnerships, we are proud to be partnering with the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI), in their first “IoT CoAP Plugtest”. The Plugtest will be held March 24-25, preceding the IETF and IPSO Spring meetings in Paris, France. This commitment to interoperability testing will continue with our own members-only Interoperability Test and Demonstration following the Spring Member Meeting. Building on past efforts, our interoperability event will focus on multi-vendor, application level interoperability.

A very large part of promoting “IP to the edge” is done through speaking at various conferences. Your participation in these conferences allows us to reach a very large audience while keeping organizational expenses in check. As an industry alliance, we continue to have membership and participation fees well below those of our peers. We are able to do this because of your continued commitment and active participation on the TAB, on various committees and in promoting IPSO through your company participation at industry events. With your continued support, the IPSO Alliance will be able to reach new milestones in 2012.

We are certainly off to a promising start!

Pete St. Pierre

President, IPSO Alliance

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