IPv6 Based Smart Grid Powered By The Stimulus Package Or Environmental Ethics?


-/Wi-Fi Technology Blogs/- Wi-Fi, WiMAX and Wireless Technologies Interoperability with Electricity Grids, translated into the new buzzword "Smart Grid", enabling the whole electricity supply chain to be managed and controlled using Internet Protocol (IP) networks and undoubtedly those networks are likely to be based on the new IPv6.

This would certainly have a positive environmental impact, however, given the economic downturn experienced currently, the real motivation may just be the $20bn annual worth of this emerging market after Obama's approval of the US Stimulus Package, injecting billions of dollars in environmentally friendly industrial and technological initiatives!

What exactly is a Smart Grid!

“A true Smart Grid enables multiple applications to operate over a shared, interoperable network, similar in concept to the way the Internet works today.” comments Katie Fehrenbacher in an earth2tech article http://earth2tech.com/2009/01/26/faq-smart-grid/, quoting Foundation Capital's note on the market.

If anyone can, Cisco certainly can do a good job, pioneers and innovators in internet and computing solutions combined, Cisco earns its place in what I would call "The Seven Computing and Internet Pillars" in no particular order, IBM, Sun Microsystems, Microsoft, Intel, Apple, HP or Dell are the beating hearts and veins of personal and business computing, but when it comes to networking technology and infrastructure, Cisco is the main skeleton, nerve centre and backbone of Internet networks.

It does certainly make sense to clean up our act in reducing computing energy consumption, wireless internet interoperability with electricity grids would gain approval from the well known environmental lobbyists and activists such as greenpeace ( http://www.greenpeace.org/international) to the new and the lesser known You Save The planet (http://yousavetheplanet.com/) with its charismatic leader Brian Gillingham at the helm. Electrical networks are no different, with up-to-date modernization, efficiency, security and better control, we can achieve energy waste reduction which will lead to lesser environmental damage.

Cisco Systems is the leading champion of the whole Smart Grid initiative, "The smart grid augments the electricity network with sensors, controllers, data communications, computers and software to distribute energy with greater economy, efficiency, reliability and security. New technology increasingly makes possible the extension of the smart grid all the way to residential users and even into their homes.", comments Larry Lang, vice president and general manager of the Services and Mobility Business Unit at Cisco Systems.

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