A ‘Future-proof’ Smart Grid
Utilities are careful to protect their customers from unneeded expenses. When deploying any technology, it is important that it does not become obsolete before the end of a device’s scheduled life. Having experienced AMR evolving to AMI, and AMI to smart grid, it is important to make sure the smart grid deployed today will meet the needs of tomorrow’s smart grid, also known as “Smart Grid 2.0.”
Ambient proactively addresses device obsolescence by relying on an open standard-based platform which includes all of the key and developing communications protocols used by the leading smart grid providers, ensuring devices will be able to communicate through the core, shared communications backbone, the Ambient Smart Grid platform. As one backhaul option, we use cellular to ensure as bandwidth requirements of the smart grid moves beyond smart metering, Ambient’s platform will be capable of scaling along with the functional needs of the supporting network.
Ambient’s smart grid platform is based on Internet Protocol (IP), and each node is uniquely addressable and manageable. This also means from a network management point of view, different end user devices, different generations of technologies and different smart grid applications all fall under the same manageable backbone increasing deployment flexibility and interoperability.
Ambient proactively addresses device obsolescence by relying on an open standard-based platform which includes all of the key and developing communications protocols used by the leading smart grid providers, ensuring devices will be able to communicate through the core, shared communications backbone, the Ambient Smart Grid platform. As one backhaul option, we use cellular to ensure as bandwidth requirements of the smart grid moves beyond smart metering, Ambient’s platform will be capable of scaling along with the functional needs of the supporting network.
Ambient’s smart grid platform is based on Internet Protocol (IP), and each node is uniquely addressable and manageable. This also means from a network management point of view, different end user devices, different generations of technologies and different smart grid applications all fall under the same manageable backbone increasing deployment flexibility and interoperability.
Ambient’s smart grid platform relies on intelligent smart grid communication nodes located throughout the distribution grid. Distributed intelligence contained within each node allows Ambient to process field data, and limit backhaul traffic to critical or requested data. The nodes are also remotely upgradeable which means new applications can continue to be developed and deployed without truck rolls to upgrade equipment.
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