USTS- Smart Grid Practice

1. Smart Grid Practice
US Tech Solutions
August 2009
www.ustechsolutions.com Tel: 201.524.9600

2. Linkage between Energy Technology , Information technology and
Communication Technology

3. There is an urgent need to integrate energy technology and information and
communications technology.
To achieve seamless operation for electric generation, delivery, and end-use benefits.
To permit two way power flow with communication and control.

4. How’s the grid modernization happening?

5. Interoperability Smart Grid concepts

6. Drivers for Smart Grid

7. Need of Standards is Urgent
Example: Smart Meters
• $40 -$50 billion dollar deployment
nationwide
• Stimulus money
• ARRA will accelerate
• Rapid technology evolution
• Absence of firm standards

8. USTS capabilities

9. USTS- Smart Grid practice
Initiatives
• Part of the team which is developing the Smart Grid
interoperability standards.
• Working on identifying gaps in current Smart Grid protocol.
• Increasing R&D spend on Smart grid practice:
– Contribution in developing a more reliable Smart-Grid wireless protocol
– Providing real-time Smart-Grid alarm & notification applications
– Smart data center energy monitoring solutions
Our Smart-Grid Partners

10. USTS- Smart Grid practice
Service Offerings
Advisory services: Consulting services:
Advising Utility firms and States on Smart-Grid roadmaps Application development, reengineering, maintenance
Smart Grid strategies for technology providers Middleware Development
Policy & workflow guidelines & best-practices Security of AMI
Power system optimization Customer Information System & Billing services
Home Area Network Dashboards
Alert & Notification system
Architecture & Design services:
Meter Data Management & Meter Event Management Warehouse /Optimization
Enterprise architecture development
Business Process Assessment
Use Cases, Maturity Models, and Expanded Gap Analyses
Green IT services
Interoperability and design requirements development
Professional services
Quality assurance and monitoring
System Implementation services: Readiness analysis
System integration services Shadow settlement / market participant preparations
Decision support (business intelligence, dashboards, etc) North American Electric Reliability Corporation functional model analysis
Asset intelligence systems Due diligence support
Advanced power systems for a Smart Grid Modeling (economics, project, operations & maintenance)
Technology project management

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