Watteco at Metering China 2009 (2009/05/01)
Massive rollouts of smart metering and other energy-management systems are underway, worldwide, driven by governments' legislation and billions of dollars in funding for "smart grid" technologies.
China is no exception and currently undertaking several major initiatives including deployment of AMR/AMI solutions with "control and command" communication technology. With the convergence of formerly disparate communications infrastructures, solutions to be deployed must meet the complex challenge of managing these new services, including various forms of open source networks, to emulate the smart grid applications to come.
For these reasons, System-on-Chip technologies will become increasingly vital to managing network traffic while maintaining necessary power and performance levels across the physical layer.
During this presentation Didier Boivin of Watteco Inc, will cover the following topics and provide an overview of technologies that Utilities can depend on to meet the demands of the next-generation of smart grid networks:
- How legacy equipment leveraging technology such as PLC, RF Radio and others, diminishes today's market acceptance of AMR/AMI solutions, but still can work seamlessly together tomorrow with next-generation platforms.
- AMR/AMI real user case for China (in collaboration with one of Watteco's partners)
- How power, size and cost for various "command and control" technologies (rather than performance) are increasingly important for tomorrow's deployments.
- How next-generation equipment will satisfy future needs from a Quality of Service point of view, including access to open standards.
|
