Sandeep Vij, vice president and general manager of the Cisco Converged Building Systems Business Unit, announces the evolution of Cisco's Smart Connected Buildings strategy.
Are you planning to partner with someone to provide the "operating system" of the smart grid, i.e. to include node Management (tranformers, etc. downstream from substation), event/failure reporting, and smart meter management including time of day and demand management? This presumably will require WIMAX or wireline broadband connectivity. Does Cisco have such a solution for the Utilities?
Good starting point for the business case is to download the "Methodological Approach for Estimating the Benefits and Costs of Smart Grid Demonstration Projects" from the smartgridnews website. Then head on over to the nist.gov site and visit their smartgrid pages for the smart grid technical framework just released and other management considerations.
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