Transforming Electricity – The Future of Smart Grids
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To conclude our Smart Grid Week (see: www.talkstandards.com/smart-grid-week), on Thursday 18th November 2010 (5pm CET / 11am EST / 8am PST) Talkstandards will host an open forum to discuss the appropriate role of ICT standardization in the Smart Grid industry.
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Questions to be addressed:
• What is the appropriate role of ICT standards in this market?
• Is the technology sufficiently mature for industry-driven standardization?
• How can standardization best foster innovation and competition?
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The Smart Grid generates data related to production, distribution and consumption of electricity. These data can be used to increase efficiency and to develop smart applications. But smart products and services provided by independent vendors rely on timely access to data and interoperability.
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However, availability and exchange of disaggregated consumer information raises key questions regarding privacy as well as security.
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I invite you to take part in the discussion, please contact Junior Editor Peter Gray for additional information/feedback.
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Mattias Ganslandt, Editor
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Transforming Electricity – Online Forum
recent ARTICLES
The Role of ICT Standards in the Smart Grid Industry
Posted By George Arnold on November 18th, 2010
The essence of the Smart Grid is the integration of ICT with PST (power system technology) to modernize the electric grid. Therefore ICT standardizati...
A Question for Smart Grid Experts
Posted By Ken Krechmer on November 18th, 2010
The Smart Grid will be based on hundreds of standards each with many possible options which will be revised tens of times, implemented using softwa...
Exploring Uncharted Waters – Why Smart Grid Standardization is Different
Posted By Ajit Jaokar on November 18th, 2010
On the eve of Smart Grid week at talk standards, this post first outlines the meaning of Smart Grids and then explores the implications for standardiza...
Enabling a Truly Interoperable Smart Grid: a Collaborative Effort
Posted By Lucas Millmore on November 18th, 2010
As Smart Grids around the world are starting to become more of a reality, the need to understand the convergence of SCADA, IT, OT, security, communicat...
Government as an Organizing Force: Convening and Setting the Agenda
Posted By Stacy Baird on November 18th, 2010
I doubt anyone suggests there has been a true market failure in setting smart grid standards. I would argue the pitfalls of mandates are numerous, pa...
recent COMMENTS
comment by Stacy Baird
George: I very much appreciate your thoughts and work on this. Ajit points to an interesting fact, standards are being ...
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comment by Ajit Jaokar
George Many thanks for your insightful contribution Re ----- How long will the standardization process take? The evolution of the IT industry away from ...
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comment by Ken Krechmer
Dear Ajit, I am not commenting on the operational problem which many standardization organizations address reasonably well. I am commenting ...
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comment by Ajit Jaokar
thanks for the clarification Ken. I was meaning the WiFi alliance as an example (not the work on the WiFi ...
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comment by Ken Krechmer
Dear James and Ajit, My apologies. I have not made myself very clear. As is obvious, I am addressing a ...
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comment by James Bryce Clark
From ICT work on e-commerce data standards, we have learned a few things about loose coupling, multiple functional lawyers, and ...
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comment by Ken Krechmer
Dear Ajit, Thank you for your response. Unfortunately, I am not familiar with any WiFi alliance approaches to this problem. ...
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