Make electric service more reliable & effective and increase capacity of existing grid

• Remote, electronic grid sensing and response

• Automatic load management, balancing & routing

• Fault detection, Power outage detection, Brownout detection (near-real time)

• Automated, semi-auto, manual fault correction

• SCADA systems integration and Operations center services

Prolong useful life of existing grid equipment

• Remote health monitoring of critical grid components (substations, transformers)

• Advanced predictive & preventive maintenance (self-healing grid)

• Automated repair truck dispatch & routing and Repair crews with Wireless PDA

• Remote asset surveillance, video monitoring and secure access

More effective monitoring & billing to electricity consumers

• Wireless, automated meter reading

• Meter tamper and fault notification

• Dynamic, time-based billing (when electricity rates fluctuate by date/time/demand)

Increase capacity and reduce losses of high-voltage power lines

• Super conducting (high temp, low temp, cryo)

• High-voltage Direct Current

• Wide-scale, global Grid for macro-economic development

Improve effectiveness of electricity markets

• Inter-regional trading

• Consumer purchasing from multiple utilities based on price, green, capacity

• “eBay for electricity” and Automated, open-market for Distributed, micro-grid