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Navigating the Smart Grid Middle Mile

By Eedo Lifshitz, Director of Utilities and Smart Grids, Alvarion, April, 17, 2012 - Maturing communications technology is playing an integral role in the advancement of today's smart grid infrastructure and enabling utilities and municipalities to generate and distribute power, as well as deliver new services and applications that connect to the home. But as network traffic increases to meet the demands for high bandwidth and low latency, utilities will be faced with new challenges that will prevent the reliable real-time monitoring and control they need -- and consumers expect.  more...
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Simple Practices Help Prevent Expensive Data Loss

By Ernest Hayden, Managing Principal, Verizon Business, July, 28, 2011 -

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Is Compliance Enough? How to Ensure Logical Access Control

By Kurt Johnson, VP of Strategy & Corp. Development, Courion, July, 20, 2011 - A recent audit by the Department of Energy's inspector general, as reported in a recent Wired Magazine article, found that the official government cyber-security standards for the electrical power grid, set by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), "fall far short of even the most basic security standards observed by noncritical industries."  more...
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Protecting Customer Privacy in Smart Grid

By Sambit Bisoi, Technology Lead, Infosys Technologies Ltd., July, 14, 2011 - Abstract  more...
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The Prospective Solar Tsunami

By Alberto Ramirez Orquin, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering, University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez, March, 15, 2011 -

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Smart Phones -- The Gateway to Utility-Customer Engagement

By Sambit Bisoi, Technology Lead, Infosys Technologies Ltd., March, 01, 2011 - Utilities usually have the luxury of not embracing the latest IT solutions as they emerge, but they must keep an eye on the trend and align their applications in the direction of evolution. In the ever changing information arena, everything, form the form of a computer to mode of usage by the customers is constantly undergoing changes. The past couple of years seem to be the flag bearer of the upcoming dimension of web experience.yes, I am talking about the evolution of smart phones and 3G tablets and their rising popularity as primary device for internet usage. These miniaturized gadgets are not only powerful enough for everyday computing, but also are extremely portable; thereby replacing some of the traditional notebooks and desktops as far as day to day computing is concerned. Many business organizations have started providing application (also called Native App) specially targeted for these smart devices. Amazon store, BOFA, Southwest Airlines etc. are some of popular Apps for Apple iPhone and Android devices. Where by using the Amazon App you can order stuff from you iPhone or buy a book from a kindle store, one can do banking transactions using the App provided by BOFA. Similarly you can book your air ticket or do an e-check in for SW Airlines from your phone application. Owing to their simplicity and fluid movement between various functions, smart phone Apps have encouraged many non IT savvy users to use the IT services through their phones or tablets.  more...
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Smart Grid Security: Where to Start?

By Dan Pearl, Global Solutions Lead, , December, 10, 2010 - Back in March, I wrote about the impending Smart Grid security crisis by comparing it to our experience with online banking. "The true danger is not that hackers might siphon from bank accounts; it's the potential systematic destruction of the entire process by which we account for wealth."  more...
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Satellite Reinforces the Smart Grid

By Bernie Nelson, , Hughes, November, 03, 2010 -

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Keeping the Lights Burning

By Scott Zimmerman, , Televox, October, 14, 2010 - Want to hear a statistic that will make your lights flicker? Electric power outages and blackouts cost America around $80 billion annually. Of this, $57 billion (73 percent) is from losses in the commercial sector, $20 billion (25 percent) in the industrial sector, and $1.5 billion (2 percent) from residential losses.*  more...
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Creating a Communications Platform for the Smart Grid

By Ravi Raju, Vice President of Corporate Strategy, SmartSynch, April, 27, 2010 - Venture capitalists were calling 2009 "The Year of the Smart Grid." It was definitely a busy year. Looking ahead, we believe 2010 will be "The Year of Smart Grid Collaboration." And to help facilitate that vision, we believe it is time to create a common communications platform for the power grid, just as the Internet relies on the TCP/IP standard. In fact, it may be due to that common standard that the Internet became the world's most populated network in less than 20 years, surpassing the century-old power grid.  more...
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