Cloud Computing for Power and Utilities: Creating a Smart Utility
Having the right communication system plays an essential role in smart utilities. Deploying smart applications for your utility optimizes energy production and distribution. Your utility can achieve better connectivity for both local and remote assets with high-speed and reliable wireless communications.
Utilities need to manage energy distribution. This requires control of the thousands of sensors, smart controls, and other digital devices up to the edge of your grid. When you introduce the right network solution for your utility, you gain real-time access to sensor data and video. Cloud computing solutions from Infinity Technology Solutions give you the ability to increase the number of sensors on your grid, better manage power generation and distribution, and plan truck rolls for predictive maintenance.
Additionally, when you have the correct wireless networking solutions in place, building a state-of-the-art video security system is a breeze. You can connect workers and surveillance cameras to better protect your people and your assets with a private LTE network.
Nokia’s Digital Automation Cloud (Nokia NDAC) from Infinity Technology Solutions offers a flexible business model for Internet connectivity from small remote locations to large wide area networks (WAN). Nokia NDAC has proved itself to be the go-to option for oil and gas companies. When it comes to utilities investing in a smarter grid, the networking expertise of Infinity’s engineers and technicians provides the best solution to digitally transform your operations.
Key Benefits of Nokia NDAC
Selecting the best PLTE network for your utility can be a guessing game. Nokia NDAC comes with the following key benefits:
- A completely secure and resilient network
- Connectivity you can count on from local sites to global operations
- A manageable and scalable solution that will expand with your utility
- Interoperability with your current network, IoT, and security systems
- Convergence for all grid applications
- An electricity market for prosumers
Industry Cases for Nokia NDAC Cloud Computing for Utilities
Bulk Power Generation
When it comes to bulk power generation, smart energy generation and distribution provide the key. Whether your utility is creating solar, wind, or hydroelectric power, you can monitor, control, and automate grid functions in real-time.
Nokia’s Digital Automation Cloud from Infinity Technology Solutions is a cost-effective wireless solution that empowers utilities to better manage their grid. We help utilities connect to their grid and personnel, manage their assets and infrastructure, and control authentication without any wires or expensive hardline broadband builds.
Wind and power plants benefit from continuous monitoring for mission-critical repairs, as well as the control and management of energy production. At the same time, early detection of photovoltaic (PV) faults can be assessed using visual imaging. With Nokia NDAC, the owners and managers of hydropower plants can monitor water levels, water quality, and weather conditions.
Automated Energy Transmission and Distribution
Extending your communication and cloud computing capabilities into your grid facilitates the use of distributed renewables, automated distribution, substation automation, and smart metering.
Achieving intelligent control over your grid functions requires the pervasive wireless connectivity that Nokia NDAC delivers. Making the transition to a Distributed Energy Resource Management System (DERMS) demands a dependable communications solution to manage your energy assets. With connected and coordinated network optimization and control, you can forecast power generation and consumer demand. This enables you to optimize power dispatch on the fly given network constraints.
Infinity Technology Solutions possesses the full portfolio of Nokia solutions for automated energy management, including building robust IP/MPLS networks and private wireless networking, to empower utilities to transition to a fully automated smart grid.
Energy Prosumers
In the energy sector, prosumers are individuals or businesses that both produce and consume energy. Today, both individuals and businesses are taking advantage of not only a two-way flow of energy but an all-way flow. Under this arrangement, businesses can sell their excess energy to each other.
With cloud-based Virtual Power Plants (VPPs), utilities can now offer future-proof benefits to customers with the right networking technology. Benefits such as the delivery of peak-load electricity and a better response to changes in energy demand are at the forefront of smart grid applications.
Implementing the Nokia Digital Automation Cloud will give you a manageable infrastructure that’s designed to securely connect all your workers, substations, and other locations at the edge of your network.
When you choose Nokia NDAC from Infinity Technology Solutions, you can transform the massive amounts of data produced by your equipment and sensors into actionable, real-time intelligence.
About Infinity
Infinity Technology Solutions has decades of experience installing, servicing, and optimizing private wireless networks for utilities across the U.S. With the full portfolio of Nokia wireless networking capabilities at our disposal, we will work with you to implement the most cost-effective PLTE network.
