Chapter 1 Smart Grid

What Is It?

Information in This Chapter

  • A Brief History of Electrical Grids

  • What Is Automatic Meter Reading (AMR)?

  • Future Infrastructure

  • What Is a Smart Grid?

  • What Is AMI?

  • International Initiatives

  • Why Do We Need to Secure the Smart Grid?

Over the past several years, the promise of smart grids and their benefits has been widely publicized. Bringing updated technologies to power generation, transmission, and consumption, smart grids are touted to revolutionize our economy, environment, and national security. Corporations large and small foresaw the emerging markets for smart grid technologies and rushed to be the first to deliver. More often than not, security has taken a backseat to the rush to ...

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