Smart Grid Today Podcast

Marina Donovan is VP of global marketing and public affairs at Itron, one of the leading technology firms in the smart grid business, even more so for having acquired Silver Spring Networks at the very beginning of 2018, which is where Donovan worked previously and how she came to Itron. Donovan spoke to us about the impressive findings in a massive survey that demonstrated how utility customers see their relationship with their energy providers changing, and the kind of smart city, or as Donovan likes to call it, “smart community,” customers and their utilities want to create. She also spoke about how the Wi-SUN networking standard fits into the movement of open standards that has included Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, and how many of the people behind those now classic standards are comitted to Wi-SUN.