Go to Cleantech Topic Page

Research Briefings

Report: An Open Source Smart Grid Primer

Summary:

The smart grid is undergoing a massive shift as utilities move from the existing world of proprietary, standards-based legacy technologies towards an architecture that will require a much greater degree of interoperability and use of open standards. Despite barriers that currently prevent widespread adoption, the fact that it is possible at all to apply open source models is a testament to how far the utility industry has come in the past few years.

  1. Table of Contents
  2. Executive Summary
  3. Introduction — The Smart Grid Challenge
  4. Defining "Open" in a Smart Grid Context
  5. Challenges to Openness on the Grid
    1. Responsibility
    2. Incompatibility
    3. Reliability
    4. Data Overload
  6. The Road From Open Standards to Open Source
    1. OpenADR — Open Source at Commercial Scale
    2. OpenADE: The Open Back Office Route
    3. OpenPDC: Open Source for the Transmission Grid
  7. People Power: An Open Source Home Area Network
  8. Red Hat: Open Source Links From Legacy to Next-Gen Gridware?
  9. Conclusion
  10. Key Takeaways
  11. About Jeff St. John
  12. About GigaOM Pro

Click below to see an archive of Pro coverage on any on any of the following companies.