Advanced Metering

Smart grid presents an opportunity to improve reliability and security but also requires constant vigilance and proactive steps to address new risks to automated metering.

The definition of Smart Grid may be vague but there’s a pretty well defined history of innovative thinking that has made the whole concept credible. Over the last 20 years we’ve seen pieces of Smart Grid take form with varying degrees of success.  Here are some major milestones.

Creating a smarter grid is the “checkered flag” our industry has been eyeing for years — long before the term “smart grid” was coined. We’ve developed the technology and assembled the pieces, but deployment has been confined to local exits from the slow lane. (go to article in Connected  Planet)