Dive Summary:
- Echelon and the Concord Municipal Light Plant have completed a trial of the 7000 Edge Control Node in Massachusetts.
- The pilot involved the strategic placement of the nodes within the town of Concord, Massachusetts.
- The utility anticipated a need to monitor its assets on the grid and will likely test other similar applications in the near future.
From the article:
Mark Howell, chief information officer for CMLP and Concord, Massachusetts, says, “The ECN’s proven ability to continue to reliably operate and provide valuable information can really help our teams locate faults and minimize time to repair outages, particularly in the case of a disaster such as Hurricane Sandy. Tracking the distribution transformer in near real-time will allow us to see areas that are or aren’t experiencing outages. The fact that the same platform also enables us to collect meter data from several different sources makes it an attractive choice for future Smart Grid deployments given the return on investment we drive.” ...