Telco Verizon’s Plan for an End-to-End, Cloud-Based Smart Grid
September 22, 2013
Grazed from GreenTechMedia. Author: Jeff St. John.
For years, Verizon has been working on expanding from its traditional role as utility industry telecommunications provider to enabling a broader, deeper set of smart grid services. That work ranges from its 2011 partnership with eMeter, now part of Siemens, to host its meter data management (MDM) and analytics on Verizon’s cloud computing platform, to using the same IT expertise for building energy management and utility customer engagement.
Now, Verizon is plotting a new step on that path — becoming an end-to-end smart grid solutions provider. The telco giant is now central manager of a utility-scale smart meter and MDM deployment, Ernie Lewis, industry partner with Verizon’s global energy and utility practice, told me in an interview earlier this month…
“We’re in the midst of a pilot right now, and what we’re piloting is more than the MDM — we have a meter-to-cash system that includes an AMI partner as well,” he said. “All of it is hosted in the cloud, leveraging our private wireless network, our private IP, our cloud assets — basically, being in a position to provide and end-to-end solution for utilities.”…
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