Building an Intelligent, Robust Smart Grid Telecommunications Network
How do you ensure the success of your Smart Grid investment?
Building a robust, intelligent communications network is vital to Smart Grid infrastructure success. Smart Grid applications require a high-bandwidth network with two-way communication to interface with millions of intelligent devices.
Your Smart Grid infrastructure investment must incorporate a scalable, robust communications network designed for flexibility to enable future growth. A Smart Grid deployment, depending on the system requirements, may consist of a combination of communication technologies including fiber optics, microwave, wireless, broadband over power line, power line carrier, cellular, Internet protocol networks or leased lines.
Intelligent Communication
Burns & McDonnell, a 110-year-old engineering firm with an industry-recognized pool of resources, has the expertise to design and deploy a scalable, cost-effective, technology-optimized communications network that complements your existing network while building your Smart Grid infrastructure. Avoid costly pitfalls by leveraging our multidisciplined expertise when designing your Smart Grid communications network.
- Enables large volume data transfer
- Monitors varied collection of remote sensors
- Processes large volumes of data in real time
- Supports multiple Smart Grid applications simultaneously
- Supports a diversified collection of communications technologies
- Works flexibly with a diverse host of technologies
- AC/DC power systems
- Construction management
- Design-build
- Federal Aviation Administration coordination
- Federal Communications Commission licensing
- Frequency coordination
- Planning and feasibility studies
- System design
- Tower structural analysis
- Zoning and permitting
- Fiber optics
- Microwave
- Wireless
- Internet protocol networks
- Leased lines
- Broadband over power line
- Power line carrier
- Network operations center
- Substation automation