Through a smart grid built on advanced communications network technologies, next-generation AMI solutions with “smarter” smart meters will be able to leverage these technologies, becoming more ...

ARMONK, NY – Sept 21, 2010: IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced it will help utilities modernize the underlying communications networks that enable them to deliver energy resources. By providing ...

Although the new normal may be an increasing frequency of violent superstorms like Sandy, there is no doubt those storms have proved the value of a smart grid. For the second year in a row, the ...

Now let’s look at the wireless communication technologies used for the Smart Grid. In this category, we have ZigBee. See Figure 5. Figure 5: A smart grid can also use ZigBee networks (Image courtesy ...

Smart Grid: An electrical network augmented with digital communication and automation technologies to enhance reliability, efficiency and integration of renewable energy sources.

Smart grids already rely on the internet infrastructure for their control backplane, whether it’s leveraging wireless networks or using fiber optics.

Tollgrade Communications, a Pittsburgh-area company with a 25-year history of managing both telecommunications and, more recently, smart grid networks, has taken an interesting hardware-plus ...

5G network slicing can be divided into multiple end-to-end logical networks on the basis of a unified physical network to meet the application scenarios with high bandwidth, high security, low latency ...

On-Ramp Wireless is part of a smart grid test with Sempra Energy in San Diego County, which spans 3 million residents, 1.1 million homes and an estimated 9.6 million devices -- from street and ...

The Wireless Networks 4 Smart Systems (WN4SS) Lab has developed LTE-enabled -PMUs using Arduino microcontrollers and LTE-cat M (a variant of LTE) modules. Originally utilizing LTE networks, the scope ...

IBM is the latest one to stake a claim when it comes to laying the network foundation that will various pieces of the smart grid talk to each other. Written by Heather Clancy, Contributor Sept. 21 ...

The infrastructure investment necessary to support a smart grid in the U.S. amounts to a substantial expense, but leaving the old grid in place could be even more costly. According to a 2011 technical ...