Physical and Cyber Security for a Smart Grid

Physical and Cyber Security for a Smart Grid from Erich Gunther on Vimeo.

An interview with Kevin Brown, a smart grid security engineer and analyst for EnerNex. Kevin discusses several aspects of physical and cyber security for smart devices in the smart grid. This work is in support of the national smart grid roadmap and standards development effort lead by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST - nist.gov) and the Smart Grid Interoperability Panel (SGIP - sgipweb.org).

Smart Grid Labs Grand Opening

On Leap Day, February 29, 2012, EnerNex unveiled their new Smart Grid Lab to 170 guests.

Aneesh Chopra Grid-Interop 2011 Address on Green Button

Aneesh Chopra, United States Chief Technology Officer, addresses Grid-Interop through this video. He starts off with a story of rapid innovation to support returning soldiers to find jobs through standarzied access to data in the Veterans Job Bank. He continues the story with the success of the Blue Button Initiative to allow the VA to make soldiers health records available to them. This sets the stage for an inspirational challenge and call to action for the energy industry to support empowering consumer access to energy data through Aneesh's Green Button concept.

Grid-Interop 2011 Green Button Live Demo - Dec 2011

Erich Gunther, Chairman and CTO of EnerNex and Anto Budiardjo, President and CEO of Clasma Events, demonstrate the power of standards to foster rapid innovation. In this case mere weeks to days after being provided a set of example code that implements the NAESB ESPI standard and sample data sets, multiple vendors provided web site, hardware, and software to implement Aneesh CHopra's Green Button concept that Erich and Anto demonstrated in real time at Grid-Interop.

Connectivity Week Keynote: Geoffrey Moore - May 2011

For 60 minutes, let’s ask some really big questions... What is the status of Smart Grid revolution to date? Are we still talking to early adopters? How about consumers, and utilities themselves? How and when will we be delivering value to the mass market? What is the likely end scenario once Smart Grid is implemented, and how are the new 21st electricity consumers going to think about their energy supply? Perhaps the most interesting question is how are we going to make all of this happen when we are somewhat shackled by the success of the past 100 years of electricity? Geoffrey Moore, author and Managing Director, The Chasm Group, will address the relevance of “crossing the chasm” to the Smart Grid and why we must create a compelling Smart Grid narrative and new business models that overcome the pull of the past.

Connectivity Week Keynote: Mickey McManus - May 2011

One thing we can all agree on is that Smart Grid and the Internet of Things are complex beasts. Taming this complexity can be daunting, when the definition of the problem, the scope of the challenge and the work necessary to create the solutions seem to change and grow every time we look at them. Can we reduce this complexity into some human manageable context? Not too simple as to lose the subtle value of the systems, and not too complex so that we can manage the interrelationships of the systems that make up the Smart Grid and the Internet of Things, work for people. As CEO and Principal of MAYA Designs, Mickey McManus returns to ConnectivityWeek (Mickey spoke in 2004, when it was called M2M Conference) to help attendees get a handle on designing a system that must be reliable enough to handle many billions of devices. Billions that simultaneously communicate with each other, each performing critical functions in isolation and in concert at the same time, managing huge amounts of interrelated information. If there is a time that we need to tame complexity, it is today.