Comments on: Duke Energy embraces cellular for smart grid

By: Ben Edelbrock

Ben Edelbrock — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 21:06:47 +0000

The wireless war has been waging on for some time within utilities. For a provider like Duke to push cellular technologies as a portion, if not the primary technology for their network, allows for greater wireless traction. Cellular has already been a cost effective approach for mid market utilities that could not afford the back end infrastructure to build the physical network. With the adoption by larger players, the former “security” stigma will hopefully be erased through large scale rollouts. Please feel free to read my blog at http://www.infosysblogs.com/smart-utilities Ben Edelbrock, Infosys

By: R Dean

R Dean — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 16:49:41 +0000

Check out this video on YouTube:

Duke Energy Smart Healing Grid at work in Ohio !!!

By: R dean

R dean — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 13:29:19 +0000

A nice reading from Pike Research

http://www.pikeresearch.com/newsroom/smart-grid-communications-node-shipments-to-total-276-million-through-2016

A new report from Pike Research forecasts that 276 million smart grid communications nodes will be shipped worldwide during the period from 2010 to 2016, with annual shipments increasing dramatically from 15 million in 2009 to 55 million by 2016. The cleantech market intelligence firm expects that this will represent a total industry investment of $20.3 billion during the seven-year forecast period, with annual revenues increasing from $1.8 billion in 2009 to $3.1 billion by 2016, despite rapidly falling average selling prices (ASPs) per node.

By: Katie Fehrenbacher

Katie Fehrenbacher — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 20:06:52 +0000

@Gridman Thanks for the info!

By: Lindsworth Horatio Deer

Lindsworth Horatio Deer — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 21:01:49 +0000

Clever Idea by Duke energy. Not only do they save on building their own private Network to control and monitor their private grid, but by allowing M2M Communications over cellular Networks, they are taking advantage of the phenomenon I like the Dead Zone Theory i.e. a coming distant time when Voice traffic on Telecom Networks will be non existent as Telecom Providers shunt voice and Data onto ultra fast LTE and Advanced LTE networks. It begins with people using SMS more than talking and Data services more than Voice services.

http://mythoughtsontechnologyandjamaica.blogspot.com/2010/10/telecom-providers-and-sms-dead-zone.html

When this happens, the Telcos will mainly make money by using up the spare voice channels on GSM or CDMA Networks Data layers i.e. GPRS, EDGE, EV-DO to carry discrete data suc has what a set of smartmeters as well as other smart grid elements would communicate to a central server within a smartgrid.

http://mythoughtsontechnologyandjamaica.blogspot.com/2011/02/verizons-lte-network-and-volte-dead.html

Not new, but i give Duke Energy a thumbs up for forward thinking!

By: Todd

Todd — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 20:13:07 +0000

Yes, AMBIENT NODES!

By: Todd

Todd — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 20:11:19 +0000

Ambient has $68,000,000 in order backlog from Duke Energy. Duke Energy currently 55,000 Ambient Nodes commercially deployed. Ambient has the ONLY tested, certified, and commercially deployed to SCALE. Katie, how did you miss this?

By: Gridman

Gridman — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 15:06:16 +0000

It will a combination of cell, Plc, BPL,wifi, radio, etc. The “Communication Node” uses all these platforms. If you think of a Grid it is overlapping…so if one fails there is several other methods it could use.

By: R Dean

R Dean — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 11:26:36 +0000

Duke Energy and Ambient Corp had a long term contract for Smart Grid commercial ROLLOUTS. See http://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/ambient-extends-smart-grid-contract-with-duke-energy/
http://m.prnewswire.com/news-releases/ambient-corporation-announces-preliminary-second-quarter-revenue-125879943.html

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Israr Saeed — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 07:29:20 +0000

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