Saturday, April 9, 2011

Space Data teams for wireless smart grid communications - St. Louis Business Journal:

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Chandler-based Space Data announced the plan Monday to offer up a portion of the wireleszs spectrum it owns to be used in conjunction with equipmentr fromMenlo Park, Calif.-based Full Spectrum. The two companies say the deal will alloa utilities to ownprivate wide-area networkzs to provide commands to smart “The combination of our interference-free, high-powered frequenciees with state-of-the-art WiMax technology providre utilities with a dedicated private broadband wireless system,” said Jerruy Knoblach, CEO of Space Data.
For severalk years, Space Data has been developingb a system of wireless communicationa using weather balloons to carryequipmentg aloft, providing a wide area of coverage. The companyt also has been providing communicationws for several years in theutility sector. Smart gridss are the latest application of technology inthe nation’sw power system. They will transform the national power grid into one that is more allowing it to deliver more power to areas of the countryy thatneed it. The two companieds believe their product would allow grid operators to control distributio remotely through awireless network.
“Inh terms of grid automation, much of the focus to date has been directedx toward automatic meter readingand However, real-time command and control of higher-levell grid devices are of equal, if not greater, importance in the driv for overall grid efficiency,” said Stewart Kantor, CEO of Full

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