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All Smart Grid Score Cards By Erich Gunther Mar 2, 2009 - 1:00:00 AM
A regular feature of Smart Grid News is the SGN Tech Take. In this series of articles, power engineer and architect Erich Gunther evaluates actual products and services against the SGN Smart Grid Scorecard. SGN believes these Tech Takes provide actionable intelligence to our readers, so we are listing past articles in a summary table. Below are the products previously reviewed in SGN Tech Take articles:
Summary of previous SGN Tech Take articles using the SGN Scorecard
Article Date
Article Name
Vendor &
Product
Product Type
Primary,
Secondary Market
Score (out of 100)
June 9, 2009
Greenbox Delivers Energy Usage Under-standing to Utility Customers
Greenbox Technology
Greenbox
Web-based energy tracking and managing
HAN/Home EMS, Utility Internet/ Customer EMS 85
Mar 16, 2009
Can Utilities Have Their Cake and Eat it Too with the ICI Networks MISUR™ Router? ICI Networks
MISUR™
Network router
WAN
80
Feb 4, 2009
Ice Energy
Ice Bear
Thermal Storage Device, Control System Demand Response
90
Nov 18, 2008
DNP Users Group
DNP Secure Authentication Field Applications
Field Equipment/ Applications
80
Nov 5, 2008
Cybectec SMP family of substation gateway and processor products Cooper Power Systems
SMP Gateway Field Equipment
Field Equipment/ Applications, Enterprise Applications
85
Oct 21, 2008
Triangle Microworks
Protocol Stack (DNP3, IEC 61850)
Field Applications
Field Applications, Enterprise Applications
88
Sept 23, 2008
Trilliant’s SecureMesh: Great Interoperability, but Can It Scale? Trilliant
SecureMesh System
FAN
FAN
74
Aug 26, 2008
Arbiter
GPS Clocks
Field Equipment
Field Equipment/ Applications
84
July 23, 2008
S&C Electric
IntelliTeam II
Field Equipment
Distribution Automation
69
May 6, 2008
Control4
HC-300
HAN Equipment
Home Automation
83
April 8, 2008
Itron’s OpenWay®: Utilities can Benefit from its Standards-Based Approach Itron
OpenWay System
Meter, FAN, Software
HAN/ Metering/ Meter-specific Network,
WAN 88
Mar 26, 2008
Dranetz-BMI
Signature System DualNode Field Equipment
Sensors & Monitoring
76
Feb 19, 2008
RuggedCom
RuggedRouter
Field Equipment
WAN
89
Jan 30, 2008
Tendril
TNOP v2.0
Enterprise Application
HAN, Enterprise Applications
86
Jan 16, 2008
Is Silver Spring Networks' "SEN" the Breakthrough We've Been Waiting for?
Silver Spring Networks
Smart Energy Network FAN/WAN
FAN/WAN
81
In the meantime, please enjoy these reviews as a personal take on how I (and my staff who do the background research) think a particular product suite or technology fits into the Smart Grid universe and use that as a guide on your own research into how that product might serve your organizations need after your own carefully evaluation.
Suggestions are of course most welcome!
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