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Smart devices: smarter smart grids.

Grid Net has licensed its technology to GE for use in GE’s smart meter and smart router products, which are bundled with Grid Net’s PolicyNet SmartGrid NMS software suite.

These smart meters and smart routers enable a utility’s energy generation, transmission and distribution devices – such as protection-grade meters, capacitor bank controllers, fault monitors, switches, video surveillance equipment, and distributed / micro generation equipment – to form a next-generation Smart Electric Grid network, via WiMAX communications technology and Grid Net’s PolicyNet SmartGrid NMS™ network management software.

Smart meters and smart routers serves as fully functional network access points and secure communications routers, and provide full Quality of Service (QoS), Security, Virtual Private Network (VPN), Intrusion Detection and Firewall capabilities.

Utilities can realize a true end-to-end Smart Grid solution for distribution automation, distributed/micro generation management, load control, demand response, and advanced metering.

This technology includes the following benefits:

  • The strongest security protocols and standards available today, including: PKMv2, CCM-Mode AES key-wrap with 128-bit key, EAP / TLS (with x.509 Certificates), and IKE/IPSec.
  • Intelligent, standards-based remote Smart Grid device monitoring and management via Grid Net’s PolicyNet: proven, adaptive, network management platform and network operating system.
  • Secure, flexible, reliable, affordable WiMAX network deployment. Together with a global network of WiMAX service providers, utilities can deploy WiMAX efficiently on government-licensed spectrum across a variety of population densities (from dense urban areas to suburban or rural areas). Using dynamic network discovery, power ranging and adaptive modulation, these devices provide a robust, secure network with significantly lower total-cost-of-ownership than competing network solutions.
  • Interoperability with WiMAX Forum Wave1/Wave2 certified products – eliminating ‘single-vendor lock-in’ found with competing solutions.
  • Multiple concurrent network connections, with Quality of Service priorities – enabling high priority traffic with “right-of-way” over daily data collection.