by Angela Guess

A recent press release out of the company reports, “Navigant Research today announced the launch of a new research service as part of its Utility Transformations program. The Internet of Things (IoT) Research Service provides independent and objective intelligence around IoT applications for utilities, commercial buildings, distributed energy resources (DER), and smart cities, covering changing business models affecting a variety of stakeholders. As connected devices proliferate, IoT will play a pivotal role across a variety of industries and applications. Facility managers, homeowners, utilities, transportation executives, governments, and other entities are already leveraging IoT technologies to provide insights that lead to greater efficiency, automation, security, customer engagement, and occupant comfort—and the adoption of these technologies is expected to expand even further.”

The release goes on, “The launch of the IoT Research Service also coincides with the quickly expanding market of Internet-connected devices that support a new digital foundation for the grid, which Navigant has defined as the Energy Cloud. The emerging IoT touches nearly all aspects of energy generation, transmission and distribution, and consumption. For utilities, the IoT helps utilities transition into new ongoing advisory and managed services relationships to gain better insight into customer loads and improve customer satisfaction. This new approach to customer engagement will direct behavior modification, load control, and conservation in concert to maximize reliability and resiliency of the grid.”

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