Glasnua: Powerline BPL smart grid technology intelligence to increase the power utility networks

Former European cable execs see BPL parallels Tom Walsh and Patricia McGrath were executives at UPC Broadband – now owned by Liberty Global. Based on Dutch society has grown from a test network cable modem user 200 in Amsterdam in the mid-90s, a base of over 1 5 million subscribers to cable broadband in 14 countries 2002. Walsh was vice president of engineering and operations and McGrath was vice president of network planning and implementation. The two left UPC and in 2005 they began Glasnua Ltd. in Ireland. They had several alternative technologies and soon GLP. Glasnua are convinced BPL is the technology he had requested, and relies on the use of BPL for utilities and retail “triple play” in Europe. Walsh and McGrath spoke to us Thursday from their headquarters in County Kerry in southwest Ireland. Walsh is CTO and McGrath is director. “Europe incredible opportunity to offer Smart Grid” technology players for the next 10 years, “said Walsh. He believes that the key for BPL technology firms in Europe to succeed is to build a presence without draining resources and funds maintained. www. glasnua. com is of help. The company tried to BPL projects with utilities but like everywhere the earth, have resisted European public services. EU pushing BPL ”Utilities have been slow on the table, coming so far – but here in Europe, the EU is actively pushing the technology,” said Walsh. Why is the government of Europe pushing BPL? An initiative of BPL is underway to “overcome the energy challenges presented by a growing membership [EU] where demand exceeds supply,” said Walsh. He and McGrath are in this government’s effort and are confident, ” it will happen, “she added. The company intends to Europe for the major players in the world GLP than some existing technologies and proven business cases tested so that we can bring resume testing technology. ”We believe that for some of the best players a good opportunity at the beginning” – with a real possibility, the tests to become commercial implementations. Glasnua hopes to avoid “scientific experiments ended – I think some people have lived in the past,” said McGrath. Some utilities in the European Union are trying to “reinvent the wheel,” she added – Glasnua and want to show them wheels are “already there”, she added. To make the challenge Glasnua deals with international companies BPL technology, including U.S. firms and represent them in Europe. The name says it all Glasnua learned early that utilities are generally not interested in hype about broadband. True to its name, the company focuses on utility applications and sees that the market offers enormous potential. Business broadband is a side effect that may be provided by the companies that lease the utility range, he noted. But the need for the 21st Century smart grid is urgent. The EU has increased from 15 to 27 countries over the past three years, said Walsh. Many people are fast-growing economies, putting incredible demand on power grids. These states have limited raw materials for energy production and a lack of organization, power interconnection between countries. The EU has no system for the network to handle or know “that produces electricity and uses it. ”Smart grid efficiency and control are finally how to integrate and manage the various networks to see” – and reduce reliance on generators outside the Union, said Walsh. Meanwhile, the least developed EU are trying to build their business and have access to broadband is an important element. “Pilot projects are planned to test the best existing solutions and use them for commercial roll-out across Europe.” Walsh expects BPL role as ecological projects of energy production such as production at home, solar panels, wind turbines, tidal power and more people begin to extend the network. The interconnection of these projects is to manage the reliability of the increasingly complex – and agree on BPL as an obvious answer to managing this complexity. They have seen cable Get Smart GLP Walsh recalls the early days of cable. People in 1997 told the Cable Modem “could not happen, it will not work – we were dreaming.” BPL has been about the same position as the cable, and – with a lack of standards, technical difficulties in creating networks plus it’s got its Sayers. The boom in broadband in Europe has been, like “The Wave, the construction of intelligent networks.” Was a traditional way cable and wire distribution system. Sounds familiar. Cable modem technology introduced tremendous advantages by IP networks. Suddenly, the operator of the status of each piece of equipment looked through the network and the customer’s modem. That gave Walsh a brand new kind of power, making financial decisions. He could decide where to spend money on the net was unfounded – the staff of technology on the ground in the application the most compelling writing, but on actual live statistics to do, “he said. Its operational teams – may have been only reactive – now act proactively based on real data and “before ordering fails.” Walsh would be targets and indicators to managers and then as they did – not on a scoreboard, but in fact, real statistics, real facts. Www. Glasnua. Com quote of the week: Suddenly, you are efficient the operation, you gave a better end service for the average customer. At the same time you were able to reduce the cost of providing the service. All this was done in the cable industry in 2003, probably in 2002. Enjoy the benefits and combine them with BPL and you make that business case look much rosier. Tom Walsh, CTO, Glasnua These people have reduced Another similarity with the cable, the problem is to cover the utilities face in scaling data networks to the entire program prints. These are the same problems with the cable broadband Walsh approached, he recalled. It takes guts “business” to wait for a chance to mature – and then use the capital to take the time if it is correct. Superior technology will win, “he added.” For us, “Smart Grids” is nothing new. Www. Glasnua. Com / aboutus. Html ”We used a similar technology, communications and quickly realized the operational benefits when the zoom is handled properly.” ”The smart grid is not a new concept.” It [was] in the telecommunications industry for over four years, is used and has revolutionized both technical and operational management. ”These benefits can now be performed by utilities also”