General, Archive for November, 2009
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Why Are Standards Important for a Smart Grid Deployment?
Why Standard Hardware (off the shelf chipsets)?
Long-term viability
Thoroughly proven
Global supply chain
Industry expertise
Low cost via economies of scale Interoperable / no vendor lock-in -
The Evolution of the Smart Grid
The Smart Grid is going through an evolution unlike anything the electric grid has seen in nearly a century. As shown in the diagram above, this evolution can basically be segmented into distinct versions of the Smart Grid:
- Smart Grid v0.0 – this wouldn’t even be classified as a “smart” network since each network used proprietary protocols to read meters on isolated networks. This phase is typically associated with automated meter reading (AMR).