Connecting cities to smart future

“We would not say that smart electricity is a precursor to a smart city, but its implementation has taught us important lessons as we approach the age of the smart city,” remarks CJ Boguszewski, Global Commercial Director, Smart Cities and Street Lights, Silver Spring Networks
 Silver Spring Networks Inc. is one the leading networking platforms and solutions providers for smart energy networks. With its intelligent street lighting, traffic signal control and electric vehicle charging, the company is expanding the functionality of its smart infrastructure platform. In an exclusive interview with ACE Update, CJ Boguszewski shares how Silver Spring is building productive, hyper-connected, high-speed and sustainable urban environments that take modern cities to the smart future.
Smart electricity in smart citySilver Spring Networks defines its business as helping connect mission-critical infrastructure, which includes smart electricity. For over a decade, Silver Spring has been using its open standards-based network platform to connect devices in the energy sector for the smart grid, including making two-way electricity, gas and water smart metering possible, as well as other grid-edge and grid-side applications such as distribution automation, energy efficiency and demand response. With these massive, outdoor IPv6 network platforms, Silver Spring has connected over 20 million devices for some of the largest utilities and cities on the planet, across five continents. IPv6 has now become the default for the smart grid across the industry. Silver Spring Networks would not say that smart electricity is a precursor to a smart city, but its implementation has taught the company important lessons as we approach the age of the smart city.

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