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Ambient Smart Grid
Utility Solutions
Tomorrow’s Smart Grid Communications Solution, Here Today.
The Ambient Smart Grid® communications platform, which includes hardware, and software elements, provides the network platform to effectively manage smart grid applications. The flexible nature of our technology allows for the seamless integration of smart grid applications into our communications nodes themselves.
Ambient Smart Grid® Communications Platform
The Ambient Smart Grid® communications platform is the result of a decade's worth of research, development and real-world experience. Capable of supporting rapid deployment and expansion, the Ambient Smart Grid communications platform empowers utilities to deploy multiple applications across the same core network communications infrastructure, and allows for the easy integration of future applications and smart grid solutions.
Connecting the Smart Grid
The Ambient Smart Grid® provides utilities and grid operators a high-speed communications network, capable of delivering critical data from networked grid assets in real time. With Ambient's open standards-based architecture, utilities can pick and choose the smart grid solution best suited for their unique infrastructure plans, now and in the future.
From demand response and real-time pricing to load management and outage monitoring and restoration, the Ambient Smart Grid enables a multitude of applications by leveraging multiple technologies including cellular, Radio Frequency (RF), Wi-Fi, power line communications (PLC), and accommodates direct serial or Ethernet connections as well.
Core elements of the Ambient Smart Grid solution include:
Ambient Smart Grid Nodes
AmbientNMS® (Network Management System)
Ambient Utility Applications
Services
Ambient Smart Grid® Communications Platform: Functionality and Benefits
Complete turnkey delivery
Ambient designs and builds the core network hardware, applications and management software - providing a complete communications solution. Our familiarity with multiple communications architectures, hardware, and software requirements, coupled with staged deployments supervised by experienced field engineers, provide us with the tools necessary for a successful rollout.
Flexible and expandable network architecture
An Ambient Smart Grid® communications platform is modular in nature, and allows a utility to deploy infrastructure on an as-needed basis. As the needs of the utility grow, the network can be expanded to meet new requirements. This flexibility minimizes initial installation costs, shortens the time between investment and realization of revenues, and reduces operations and maintenance expenses.
Outage detection and restoration confirmation
Our communications nodes are powered from low voltage lines, which eliminate the need for separate outage detection equipment throughout the grid at various consumption points since our technology detects power outages in the communications nodes themselves. The communications node can also be equipped with an optional battery, which can help a utility with outage notification and restoration, and allow for continued node operation in the event of a power outage. Remote access to information provided by the communication node substantially reduces the time to restore power to consumers and lowers restoration costs for utilities.
Support of External Applications
The Ambient Smart Grid is designed to incorporate external applications that leverage our distributed intelligence and communication technologies.
The Ambient Smart Grid® platform transforms the distribution grid itself into a series of data points. Thus, utility operators are not limited to applications at the end of the distribution grid, such as metering applications. Grid operators can monitor and communicate with our nodes or grid equipment integrated at any point along the Ambient Smart Grid distribution network.