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Timeline – Smart grid technology

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Earlier deployments Mesh network of Austin, Texas (since 2003) Italian system Telegestore (2005) Smart grid in Boulder, Colorado (2008)

First patented Electric meter by Samuel Gardiner

18821872

Automatic meter reading devices

introduced

1970sSince 2003

1889

Elihu Thomson introduced a recording wattmeter

Earlier deployments of smart grids

Late 1940‘s

GE’s advertising campaign “Time to Retire Old Watt-hour Meters”

1886

Edward Weston’s indicating meter to measure current

Edison‘s Pearl street station- Electrode meter

Source: http://www.ieeeghn.org/wiki/index.php/The_History_of_Making_the_Grid_Smart (2013)