Smart Metering
Future-Proofing Smart Grid Infrastructure Meter DesignsAccording to the International Energy Agency, world electricity demand is projected to increase by nearly 80% over the years 2012 to 2040. Modernization, expansion and decentralization of the electricity infrastructure for improved robustness and resiliency is a clear imperative, with the World Economic Forum recently calling for transformational investments exceeding $7.6 trillion over the next 25 years. With the power grid infrastructure progressively more digitized and connected, ensuring the reliable and secure flow of digital communications is critical. Smart meters are an integral part of the smart grid infrastructure, whether in a power substation or residential setting, enabling the real-time measurements needed to monitor equipment health, grid congestion and stability, and system control. The distributed energy flows characteristic of smart grid infrastructure create network stability concerns, making network timing, security and reliability more imperative than ever before. While ensuring smart grid security and reliability is without question, less understood is that the infrastructure’s connectivity makes network time dependency much more critical. Discover Microsemi's solutions for: Time-sensitive and time-critical applications for smart metering include:
Contact your local Microsemi sales office today to find the right technologies and products for your smart meter design needs. Power Generation Control Solutions
For power generation control – applicable to Doubly Attached Nodes with HSR (DANH), Intelligent Electronic Devices (IED) and Redundant Boxes – Microsemi offers lowest power solutions with instant-on functions and security features. Power Substation Synchrophasor Solutions
 indispensable in our increasingly digital, networked world. Microsemi is the world leader in network synchronization and precise time solutions, with our broad portfolio setting the world's standard for time. With our depth of experience and expertise, we fully understand the imperatives of bridging traditional communications networks and connected smart grid power substations. See Microsemi's solutions for power substation synchrophasors:
Contact your local Microsemi sales office today to find the right technologies and products for your power substation synchrophasor designs. Residential Smart Meter Solutions (Water, Gas) As utilities deploy advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) across their distribution grids, the customer-related data can be now remotely monitored. Smart meters enable two-way communication between the meter and the central system employed by the utilities. Typically, when deploying water and gas meters the utilities face challenges to provide power to the wireless sensors so an efficient, battery based low power sensor design is required. The diagram depicted here shows the implementation example of a generic wireless water and gas meter using solar energy to provide energy to an embedded rechargeable energy storage device.
Microsemi Solutions for Smart MeteringAt Microsemi, we have decades of expertise in timing and synchronization for communications networks and are well-known for our high-reliability, rugged and high-performance solutions. We inherently understand your needs for data security and reliable, efficient systems and software you can trust to build a secure, economical and future-proof grid infrastructure. Our portfolio for smart metering applications includes:
Contact your local Microsemi sales office today to find the right technologies and products for your smart meter design needs. |
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