Smart city and smart grid technology vendor Itron has announced its new OpenWay Riva communications platform, in partnership with Adaptive Communications Technology, to deliver distributed intelligence over Cisco networks – with the mission of improving the resourceful use of energy and water. Itron says there are three central distributed intelligence capabilities of its OpenWay Riva platform – self-defined and refreshed locational awareness of edge devices, support for multiple communication and application protocols, and unprecedented processing power at the edge of the low-voltage network. Itron says the platform drives new applications and decision-making to the network edge to take action in near real time, which will enable utilities to push smart water, gas and grid apps to the edge – including…