Smart Grid: How it Creates Disruptive Change

Abstract

Topics discussed: background--mega trends and issues, smart/intelligent grids--characteristics, advanced metering infrastructure (AMI), a look inside the power companies, why IT and OT need to merge, and implications for DoD. Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) refers to systems that measure, collect and analyse energy usage, and interact with advanced devices such as electricity meters, gas meters, heat meters and water meters, through various communication media either on request (on demand) or on pre defined schedules. This infrastructure includes hardware, software, communications, consumer energy displays and controllers, customer associated systems, meter data management (MDM) software, supplier and network distribution business systems, etc.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 2010
Accession Number
ADA557882

Entities

People

  • Paul Flanagan
  • Russ Mattern

Organizations

  • Information Resources Management College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Commerce
  • Communication Networks
  • Data Centers
  • Data Management
  • Electricity Meters
  • Energy Security
  • Gas Meters
  • Information Operations
  • Infrastructure
  • Local Area Networks
  • Monitoring
  • National Security
  • Networks
  • Security
  • War Colleges
  • Wide Area Networks

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

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