Showing posts with label smart grid. Show all posts
Showing posts with label smart grid. Show all posts

Saturday, January 29, 2011

Smart Grid Apps for LTE

Alcatel-Lucent and Tantalus have developed a "smart grid" system using Long Term Evolution networks. The system is important because "machine to machine" communications are expected to provide a key revenue segment for wireless providers, allowing mobile service providers to move beyond revenue models based on "devices used by people," to all sorts of other applications where sensors talk to machines.

Alcatel-Lucent and Tantalus have developed meter collectors and video cameras that will be connected over an LTE network.

Smart grid and other sensor-based applications will be important on the front end of the mobile business as drivers of new revenue, but also important on the back end, in terms of contributing to need for backhaul, middle mile and other capabilities.

Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Fiber to the Home for Smart Grid Apps

Monday, December 7, 2009

Communications Key for Smart Grid, Survey Suggests


There's a key reason wireless service providers believe process automation (machines communicating wtih machines) will power the next great wave of wireless growth. It will.

According to a Pacific Crest Mosaic survey, electrical utilities consider two-way communications the most important technology in creating a fully operational "smart grid." About 60 percent of executives say that is the case. Smart meters, by way of contrast, are seen as "most important" by only 15 percent of respondents.

That should come as no surprise. Meters are a basic part of the utility business. So meters, at least for upstream reporting,  as such are widely in use. It is the ability to control the flow of electrons on the grid which is lacking. Local switches for such purposes already are available, allowing utilities to remotely turn on and off home air conditioning units at times of peak load, for example.

Two-way communications designed for power grid use also have been available for some time, allowing utilities to conduct such on-and-off operations. What is needed are more-granular ways of assessing, in real time, the state of the grid and power consumption, so the network of switches can be controlled.

That can be done using either wired or tethered communications. But wireless will appeal because the network already is available.

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