Ambient unveils new network device for smart grid applications

Greentech Lead America: Ambient Corporation, a provider of smart grid communications and applications platform, has developed Ambient MicroNode, a purpose-built network device targeting smart grid applications.

The network device features advanced processing capability and memory, which has been enhanced with an additional serial interface, two digital inputs and outputs, and a USB host port, to connect Distribution Automation (DA) devices such as voltage regulators, automated feeder switches, sensors, reclosers and capacitor banks.
Ambient Smart Grid Nodes offer utility customers a very effective solution for achieving their grid modernization objectives, the company said. The open standards-based IP platform enables utilities to deploy and manage multiple smart grid applications in parallel, provides undoubted financial and operational benefits.

The additional interfaces on the MicroNode extend the communications and control capability to more devices to enable multiple applications. The choice of interfaces ensures flexibility to connect to a variety of smart grid and/or legacy devices. This product is managed by the Ambient Network Management System, providing the benefits of having a managed communications infrastructure.

The Ambient MicroNode is a member the Ambient Smart Grid Node family that, along with the AmbientNMS, delivers benefits of distributed intelligence grid architecture.

Applications developed for the Ambient Smart Grid platform can be run on all three types of node.  They deliver upstream and downstream high-speed data communications using a variety of wired and wireless technologies, including serial, Ethernet, PLC, cellular, Wi-Fi, and RF.

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