Partners

Truly open collaboration: more choice, more innovation for utilities.

Utilities need truly open, standards-based Smart Grid solutions from a collaborative ecosystem of partners dedicated to delivering the lowest cost, highest performance innovation and choice:

  • Best-of-breed products that enable utilities to avoid vendor lock-in
  • Interoperable solutions that fit each utility’s unique needs and that leverage existing investments
  • Flexible, future-proofed products that adapt to continuous innovation

It takes a collaborative ecosystem to build the Smart Grid.

Grid Net is collaborating with Tier One technology and utility industry vendors to develop leading Smart Grid solutions that are open, standards-based, real-time, interoperable, secure, resilient, high-performing, and cost-effective, including:

  • GE Energy’s next-generation smart meters and smart routers, which are bundled with Grid Net’s real-time, all-IP Smart Grid and Smart Home software platforms.
  • Grid Net’s PolicyNet Smart Grid NMS™ and SmartGrid NOS™ software platforms, of which core components are based on the Common Open Policy Service (COPS) engine1. PolicyNet enables utilities to cost-effectively manage the Smart Grid and Smart Home with software that is open, standards-based, reliable, scalable, extensible, and secure.
  • An open, interoperable Smart Grid communications and networking platform based on 4G wireless broadband.

If you are interested in licensing Grid Net’s software for your device, contact us at partner@grid-net.com

  1. The Common Open Policy Service (COPS) Protocol is part of the IETF’s Internet protocol suite. COPS specifies a simple distributed model for supporting policy control for advanced networking services, such as Quality of Service and Security; and now Smart Grid network and application services. ↩