Oracle Utilities hasintroduced its smart grid software – an end-to-end software offering including mission-critical applications and back-end technology infrastructure.

Honeywell acquired solutions from SparkMeter, which provides grid management solutions for utilities, expanding its Smart ...

Networking giant Cisco and energy management solutions maker Itron announced a jointly developed smart grid architecture that fuses together technologies from both companies. The solution is ...

Next Step, Next Frontier, NextAxiom. If smart meter deployment represents the next step for innovative municipal utilities like the City of Fort Collins, then integrated customer care and intelligent ...

Over the last decade, smart grid innovators have recognized the importance of an intelligent grid architecture while, over the same period, the electric power industry has been experiencing ...

Climate volatility and rising energy demand have resulted in unprecedented challenges throughout the world. Unfortunately, ...

Smart grid architecture requires advanced network monitoring and IP-based routing and switching, said Sanket Amberkar, Cisco's director, Smart Grid Strategy. But energy grid and utilities also ...

Siemens announced a Smart Grid Architecture Model (SGAM) which it is promoting as an open standards technical model for smart power generation, distribution and use. Siemens Infrastructure & Cities ...

A cybersecurity working group is developing a security architecture and comprehensive set of security requirements to accompany the Smart Grid framework being developed by NIST's office for Smart ...

Referencing the Smart Grid Architecture Model, Nuth highlighted the communication layer, which connects the architecture’s protocol and data model. He pointed to this layer as being the lynchpin to ...

Wouldn't implementing software throughout the grid make it more susceptible to hacking or sabotage? Security has to be part of the architecture of the design, not glued on as an afterthought.