Last fall, before the epic, near-biblical rains of early 2023 pushed California’s historic drought off our collective radar, the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power announced a pilot ...

It’s no secret that hackers like to measure things. Good numbers lead to good decisions, like when to kick your wastrel teenager out of a luxuriously lengthy shower. Hence the creation of this ...

"This program is the first in a series of initiatives leveraging this state-of-the-art network on a citywide scale, creating significant cost savings for taxpayers and agencies alike." -- Department ...

Thomas Ricker is a deputy editor and Verge co-founder with a passion for human-centric cities, e-bikes, and life as a digital nomad. He’s been a tech journalist for 20 years. The final frontier for ...

Here's a crowd-funding campaign that probably deserves to be doing better than it is. Driblet is a smart water meter that connects to a water pipe to track use. Best of all, once it's installed, you ...

San Francisco has been a hotbed of opposition to Pacific Gas and Electric Co.'s SmartMeters. Since 2010, the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission, which provides water service to city residents, ...

The city of Santa Clara flipped on a big Internet switch this week, becoming what it says is the first in the country to use wireless, digital "smart meters'' on homes as channels for free citywide ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Austin Water is in the process of rolling out the My ATX Water Program. The program officially launched earlier this year and it will replace 250,000 meters over the next four years.

You’ve got a smart phone. Maybe a smart watch. Or even a smart doorbell. In the coming months and years as California struggles with worsening droughts, millions of Bay Area residents will soon be ...

(TNS) — You’ve got a smart phone. Maybe a smart watch. Or even a smart doorbell. In the coming months and years as California struggles with worsening droughts, millions of Bay Area residents will ...

Some Fort Worth water customers say their bills have skyrocketed after the city installed new wireless meters. A water department spokeswoman said the new meters are more accurate, which could cause ...