Industry IoT Consortium

The US power grid is a machine on a truly gigantic scale. And it is also inherently distributed and decentralized: there is no single central controlling authority, rather a set of connected, interacting organizations that make energy management decisions in their own scope but coordinate with each other. The power grid is also changing: from the radial model where the power generated in large power plants is distributed to consumers to a model where customers are both producers and consumers of energy. These properties make the power system a prime target for fog computing applications.... Read more →

With the increasing use of renewable energy sources at the edge of the power grid, increasing threats of cyber-attacks on the power system and aging infrastructure in the grid, there is an urgent, growing need for a new “smart” grid. This testbed provides a proof-of-concept environment in which to apply new IIoT technologies to challenges in deploying a smart grid.... Read more →