Market Insight

Potential Negative Impact of Government Involvement in Smart Meter Deployments

Author: Sam Lucero, Practice Director, M2M & Embedded

Published: 11 May 2011

The US federal and state government involvement in smart meter deployments in the United States may have created a market “distortion,” leading utilities away from using only third-party networks (such as cellular) toward deploying their own network infrastructure.

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