State of Idaho Department of Commerce — A new Innovation Council is being convened to advise the Idaho Department of Commerce, other state agencies and universities on ways to sustain and build Idaho’s innovation industry. The council furthers the work of the Science & Technology Advisory Council which disbanded nearly two years ago.
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10 February 2009 |
Remote Sprinkler Management Made Simple
Monitoring and controlling pivot irrigation equipment without traveling to the field has never been easier or more convenient. The new Valley Tracker Mobile enables you to check the status of a sprinkler irrigation machine and control its operations anywhere you have cell phone coverage just by pressing the phone's touch screen. All you need are a Web-enabled smartphone or smart PDA, a Windows mobile browser and access to the Internet.
7 January 2009 |
Idaho's Agriculture and Technology Industries Could Help Lead Us Out of the Downturn
THE IDAHO STATESMAN — TOO OFTEN, IDAHOANS HEAR about the differences between rural and urban Idaho. These differences are regularly couched as the state's old economy versus its new economy, and specifically as agriculture vs. technology. In a time of declining state revenues and a tough federal economic situation, it is more important than ever for Idahoans to focus on our similarities and on how we can work together to weather the current economic crisis.
19 October 2008 |
Small Companies Are Where It's At
BOISE, ID — October 16, 2008 — It's the latest in a series of high tech layoffs - 1,500 Micron employees will get pink slips over the next several months.
But when employees are let go from businesses such as Micron and Hewlett Packard, can they still find success afterward?
"This is a general purpose remote monitoring and control," said Steve Hodges, president and founder of M2M Communications.
27 August 2008 |
Seventeen Idaho Companies Rank Among Nation’s Fastest-Growing 5,000
Idaho Business Review — Thursday, August 28, 2008
Inc. magazine’s new list of the fastest growing privately held companies in the United States includes 17 Idaho companies. Yes, that’s 0.34 percent of the nation’s top companies, located right here in Idaho.
But we're not at the bottom of the list. Wyoming, Hawaii and Alaska each have just three companies in the top 5,000. And Arkansas, Mississippi, Montana, the Dakotas and West Virginia all have fewer fastest-growing companies than Idaho.
24 August 2008 |
Web-to-wireless system helps manage peak power demand
Idaho Business Review — Monday, August 25, 2008
During southeast Idaho’s hot, dry summers, as much as one-third of the region’s base-load power demand comes from the massive irrigation pumps that keep its agricultural industry alive.
But sharing the grid are tens of thousands of air conditioners and fans, all of which get cranked up at the same time, often outstripping a utility’s ability to provide enough power.
1 August 2008 |
M2M Manages Irrigation, Pays Farmers, Saves Electricity
Boise, ID — M2M Communications Company of Boise designs and manufactures specialty communication equipment for the energy sector. M2M Communications devices give a utility the ability to shed large non-critical loads in high demand situations such as on hot summer days.
1 May 2008 |
Irrigation Load Control: A Program of Power
Potato Grower — The ins and outs of load control.
Nationwide there is a growing appetite for utility-sponsored irrigation load control. Following is a take on what growers and/or those in a position to advise growers need to know before leaping into utility-sponsored irrigation load control programs.
6 January 2008 |
Kyocera Wireless and M2M Communications Collaborate on Load Control System
SAN DIEGO and BOISE, ID, January 15, 2008 — Kyocera Wireless Corp., a leading global manufacturer of CDMA wireless handsets and devices, and M2M Communications, a leading wireless M2M systems integrator and application provider, today announced the successful deployment of a sophisticated direct load-control program custom engineered for Rocky Mountain Power’s demand-side management project.
1 January 2008 |
M2M Communications: Energy Management for New York City
As the population of a city grows, the demand for energy, such as natural gas may outgrow the capacity of the distribution system. Enter energy management solutions by M2M Communications. Utilizing a web-to-wireless remote monitoring and control product with an integrated Multi-Tech SocketModem®
19 November 2007 |
Powering Up with M2M
M2M is nothing new to utility companies, which have been using the technology since long before the term gained prominence. Today, these same companies are at the forefront of adoption with an eye on the future.
For the vast majority of public and private utility companies, M2M must seem like a late arrival to a party that’s already started. Power-generation companies, among others, have been moving forward with M2M technology for quite a while and many are showing solid results for having done so.
1 July 2007 |
Aeris Selected to provide Wireless Services for M2M Communications
San Jose, CA — July 1, 2007 — Aeris® ( www.aeris.net ), the leading network services provider for wireless machine-to-machine (M2M) fixed and mobile communications services, today announced that the company will provide its CDMA services to M2M Communications, a leading supplier of M2M monitoring and control systems.
1 July 2007 |
Connecting Wireless Solutions to Business Strategy
Mobile Enterprise — Wireless M2M Over the next 18 months, Rocky Mountain Power will deploy 4,000 custom-designed load control units from Kyocera and M2M Communication that will enable the utility to efficiently balance electrical power supply and demand between agricultural and residential customers.
Rocky Mountain Power, based in Boise, Idaho, services agricultural customers in parts of Idaho, Montana,
30 June 2006 |
Minding The Grid: Empowering Utility Management With M2M Technology
Mobile Enterprise — Fifteen degrees Fahrenheit is cold. In the natural gas business, 15degrees F is the equivalent of August at midday for an electric company: primetime. It's when even the most frugal extra-sweater-wearer is likely to turn up the thermostat, and the collective result of this can be a strain on a utility's infrastructure and a vast drain of its resources.
1 June 2006 |
Unmanned Systems Down on the Farm: Dull, Dirty, Dangerous, Demanding
Auvsi — Farming seems to present a perfect challenge for unmanned systems: The work is sometimes dull, often dirty and occasionally dangerous.
Not only is the vast area of land a concern, but different crops have respectively different planting, watering, fertilization and pest control needs.
1 April 2004 |
Valley Introduces New Pivot Monitoring Device
THE IDAHO STATESMAN — M2M Communications has signed an exclusive ten year agreement with the world’s largest manufacturer of irrigation equipment and has introduced two new products for pivot irrigation systems.
10 September 2002 |
Austin, Boise, Corpus Christi: Three Degrees of Development
AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF — BOISE, Idaho
Corpus Christi wants desperately to be another Boise.
Corpus Christi is an oil city, a military city, a city with an economy that lags behind other places. Boise, a city of comparable size with a similar economic history and in an isolated part of the country, is an innovative technology city with a penchant for creating wealth and jobs.