Vision
Open standards are essential to the Smart Grid.
Standards are what drive rapid innovation — and accountability. To flourish, the Smart Grid should leverage proven, open standards and best-of-breed technologies - utility industry standards, as well as standards developed and validated in the telecommunications and enterprise software industries.
We believe that the open, networked Smart Grid is an integrated suite of standards-based hardware, software and communications that is:
- Built on open standards and protocols, so that utilities can choose the most innovative and cost-effective solutions, and avoid “single vendor, proprietary product” lock-in
- High performing and scalable, in order to cost-effectively manage millions of customer service points
- Integrated, interoperable and optimized, to leverage innovations from all technology providers
- Resilient and adaptive, so that utilities can identify, isolate and resolve specific points of failure, and/or provision new services rapidly and cost effectively
- Secure and reliable, so that Smart Grid devices, networks and services are well protected from attacks or hacks
Utilities should demand standards-based solutions from vendors, because standards-based technology means greater choice in solutions, and more rapid innovation at lower cost.
Grid Net has architected the following standards into its products (and will keep adding to this list over time):
| Utility Industry | IEEE, IETF, HAN |
|---|---|
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ANSI C12.1 ANSI C12.10 ANSI C12.18 ANSI C12.19 ANSI C12.20 ANSI C12.21 IEC 61000-4-4 IEC 61000-4-2 IEC 61968 |
IEEE 802.1X IEEE 802.3 (Ethernet) IEEE 802.1Q (VLAN) IEEE 802.1Q (QoS) HomePlug v1 / HomePlug AV IPv4 / IPv6 Networking Protocols (DHCP, DNS, ICMP, IGMP, IP, IPSec, NTP, OSPF, SLAAC, TCP, UDP) IETF RFC 2474 - Differentiated Services Field IETF RFC 2616 - HTTP v1.1 IETF RFC 2702 - Requirements for Traffic Engineering Over MPLS IETF RFC 2784 - COPS IETF RFC 2865 - RADIUS IETF RFC 2866 - RADIUS Accounting IETF RFC 3031 - Multiprotocol Label Switching Architecture IETF RFC 3060 - PCIM IETF RFC 3084 - COPS-PR IETF RFC 3159 - Structure of Policy Provisioning Information IETF RFC 3280 - PKI CRL Profile IETF RFC 3579 - RADIUS Support for EAP IETF RFC 3748 - EAP IETF RFC 4261 - COPS/TLS IETF RFC 4346 - TLS v1.1 IETF RFC 4493 - AES-CMAC IETF RFC 4523 - LDAPv3 / PKI IETF RFC 4557 - Online Certificate Status Protocol |
| W3C / OASIS | Communications and Security |
|
SOAP 1.1/1.2 SOAP RPC, document/literal SOAP request-response, one-way SwA MTOM (streaming) WS-I Basic Profile 1.0a WS-Addressing (2003/03, 2004/03, 2004/08, 2005/03) WS-Discovery WS-Enumeration WS-Security (2004/01) WS-Notification |
Access Network Interface: IEEE 802.16e-2005 (WiMAX) WiMAX Government-Licensed Spectrum Frequency Band(s): 2300-2400 MHz 2496-2690 MHz Security Device Authentication: EAP-TLS / 802.16.e PKMv2 Network Link Security Protocols: EAP-TLS / RADIUS Digital Identity: x.509 Public Key Certificate Security Device Authenticity Check: Secure ROM with Hardware-Enforced Code Signing Cryptographic Key Exchange: TLS: DHS-DSS Encryption Algorithms: CCM-Mode / CCM-Mode AES Secure Communications Channel: PKMv2 |