Managing the smart-grid data overload
Developing the UK’s smart-grid infrastructure will require communications and data technologies that can manage far more information than utilities must handle today. That’s the focus of a strategy report from Greenbang Research: “Enabling the UK’s smart-grid future: The wireless spectrum debate.”
The report answers such questions as:
- Should dedicated wireless spectrum be allocated to UK utilities for smart-grid systems? If so, why?
- Is the lack of spectrum allocations slowing or hindering the development of smart-grid systems in the UK and the broader EU?
- What future drawbacks could the smart grid face without a dedicated spectrum for utilities?
- To what degree is an optimised smart grid dependent on a dedicated spectrum allocation? And is there an ideal range for spectrum allocation?
- Does the EU need to adopt a continent-wide spectrum allocation and, if so, what would be the benefits? Would there be any benefits to each country/market establishing its own spectrum allocation?
“Enabling the UK’s smart-grid future” also concludes with five key lessons for policy-makers. The report is aimed at decision-makers at utility companies, smart-grid technologies and services vendors, ICT service providers, wireless communications companies, energy management companies and investors.
While the UK’s utility regulator awaits input from stakeholders before releasing its final package of smart-metering measures in early 2011, the nation’s communications regulator has yet to make a decision on whether to allocate either dedicated or lightly licensed spectrum for wireless smart-grid communications. Companies that best understand where the situation lies today, and where it could end up in the near future, can enjoy opportunities for building a smart-grid customer base ahead of the pack.
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