The Front Door for Cleantech Innovation in Los Angeles
The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power’s La Kretz Innovation Campus is the front door for cleantech innovation in Los Angeles. The campus…
A Brighter Future for a Nepali Village
In November, representatives and volunteers from Itron had the great opportunity to travel to Nepal to help with the Mohari Project, a project…
Itron Idea Labs Attends First-Ever California Climate Cup, Supports Clean Energy
Itron Idea Labs continued its partnership with the Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator (LACI) this week with two exciting events! On Monday, Sept. 10,…
Adventures in Cryptocurrency
Last October, a conversation began in the Itron Idea Labs community around blockchain and what Itron might do with it in the energy space. Ideas were…
A Year of Innovations and Impact
At Itron, we seek to grow resourceful communities across the globe with our technology, growing portfolio and community outreach. Last year, we…
What Itron Idea Labs Brings to Itron and the Industry
Nine out of 10 Fortune 500 companies in 1955 disappeared from the list by 2016. The average tenure of a Fortune 500 company went from 33 years in…
Itron Riva Streetlights: Sunglasses On!
You might want to wear your sunglasses while reading the following... It all started in January 2017, at the Itron Sales Conference, held in Palm…
The Importance of the Culture of Innovation
A few weeks ago, I was on a panel with Microsoft Ventures and Providence Fund in Seattle, discussing corporate innovation and the key ingredients…
Figuring Out 5G
One of the main topics I heard talked about at Mobile World Congress is 5G— the next generation cellular. I tried to forget everything I know about…
Itron Idea Labs Takes Barcelona at the Mobile World Congress
Among the more than 100,000 attendees at the Mobile World Congress 2017 is the Itron Idea Labs team. And alongside the mobile giants we are…
What Does Itron Idea Labs Do?
Imagine you are planning a trip from point A to point B to get there as quickly as possible in your car where you must arrive at a specific time for…
Why Itron Idea Labs?
I just got a Google Home – you know, the speaker you can talk to and it will play music. It tells me what the outside temperature is or what a cup of…