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PolicyNet — smart software to manage the Smart Grid.

PolicyNet SmartGrid Network Management System™ (NMS) provides intelligent, reliable, real-time, all-IP, cost-effective, software-based management of millions of Smart Grid devices. Grid Net’s SmartGrid Network Operating System (NOS) real-time, all-IP software platform endows Smart Grid devices with secure intelligence and capabilities for real-time advanced metering, demand response and other Smart Grid applications. The PolicyNet software platform enables utilities to apply enterprise policies (business rules) centrally, endowing a distributed network of Transmission and Distribution devices (including meters) with intelligence. Using PolicyNet, utilities can connect and manage Smart Grid devices (e.g., meters, capacitor bank controllers, fault monitors and reclosers, switches) with an online, real-time, ‘stateful’ view of the entire Smart Grid network. PolicyNet also integrates seamlessly with utilities’ back-end software applications (including OMS, DMS, CIS, Billing, etc.).

Efficient Smart Grid management drives lower network capital and operational expenses.

The PolicyNet software platform automates a utility’s business, operations, and networking rules (or policies), enabling cost-efficient, centralized management of intelligent Smart Grid devices. Grid Net’s SmartGrid NOS platform enables distributed intelligence and rich features at the point of service delivery (e.g., the smart meter), so that utilities can remotely deploy and manage advanced energy services directly to customers.

Highly secure, reliable, scalable, powerful Smart Grid management software.

PolicyNet leverages proven investments in advanced network security from the telecommunications industry to deliver ‘industrial-strength / government-grade’ security to Smart Grid devices. In addition, PolicyNet software is based on policy-based networking technology and protocols currently used in real-world Internet operations that scale reliably and consistently to millions of networked devices.

Open standards for Smart Grid interoperability.

Grid Net’s PolicyNet NMS™ platform, SmartGrid Network Operating System (NOS) and SmartGrid agents comprise the only Smart Grid software platforms architected from the ground up for truly open, highly secure, standards-based Smart Grid and Smart Home applications.

PoliycNet integrates easily with other utility enterprise systems via standards-based interfaces, reducing complexity, cost, and time to deployment. PolicyNet’s core policy engine is based upon the IETF Common Open Policy Service (COPS)1 and leading utility and advanced networking standards. PolicyNet’s extensible plug-in layer architecture provides a common service interface for utility metering, as well as support for legacy AMR systems and heterogeneous networks.

Built for adaptive, ongoing innovation and integration.

PolicyNet’s open architecture ensures that utilities benefit from ongoing technology innovations, avoid proprietary vendor “lock-in”, and take advantage of best-of-breed Smart Grid solutions that ensure the lowest possible operating costs in both the short- and long-term.

  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. ↩