DOCUMENT #:
GSC15-PLEN-52
FOR:
Presentation
SOURCE:
ATIS
AGENDA ITEM:
PLEN 6.11
CONTACT(S):
Maria Estefania (mestefania@atis.org)
ATIS and the Smart Grid
Maria Estefania,
Vice President, Standards Development,
ATIS
Global Standards Collaboration (GSC)
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Highlight of Current Activities (1)
 Under the United States’ Energy Independence and
Security Act (EISA) of 2007, the National Institute of
Standards and Technology (NIST) was given "primary
responsibility to coordinate development of a
framework that includes protocols and model
standards for information management to achieve
interoperability of smart grid devices and systems.”
 ATIS has been involved in NIST’s Smart Grid
initiatives since August 2009 and identified several
areas of ICT standards involvement in the NIST
Interoperability Framework Process and priority
actions plans (PAPs).
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Highlight of Current Activities (2)
 ATIS Packet Technologies and Systems Committee
(PTSC) has been involved in the Cyber Security
Coordination Task Group (CSCTG), with the primary
objective of identifying and representing the ATIS
standards which can contribute to interoperability
across the domains of the Smart Grid.
 ATIS recently shared with the group a number of ATIS
security standards from various committees for
reference, utilization, and potential adoption by the
CSCTG.
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Highlight of Current Activities (3)
 ATIS Wireless Technologies and System Committee
(WTSC) has developed input and provided supporting
quantitative documentation to PAP02 (Wireless
Communications for the Smart Grid) on the
characteristics of four 3GPP technologies (EDGE,
UMTS, HSPA+, and LTE) for inclusion as potential
technologies to be used by Smart Grid applications.
 WTSC continues to work on evaluating the
aforementioned 3GPP technologies against the Smart
Grid requirements.
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Highlight of Current Activities (4)
 ATIS Copper/Optical Access, Synchronization and Transport
Committee (COAST) Network Access Interfaces (NAI) subgroup
recently alerted NIST on the need to ensure that development of
the Smart Grid technology be designed to avoid adverse impact
to existing DSL technology.
 NIST acknowledged the potential interference issue between the
proposed power line communications standards and the xDSL
standards and reported that NIST would escalate this to the
SGIP Governing Board, as well as forward the concern to IEEE
P1901.2 and ITU-T SG15.
 The COAST Synchronization (SYNC) subgroup is also involved
in discussions related to Smart Grid synchronization being
worked in the SGIP PAP13. COAST-SYNC and IEEE are
working together to advance selected issues to support the PAP.
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Strategic Direction
 The ICT sector is uniquely well-positioned to
leverage its networks and experience to enable
interoperability between the Smart Grid’s intricate,
multifaceted architectures and infrastructures.
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Challenges
 Terminology used by the power/utility companies
vs. that used by the ICT sector.
 Multitude of stakeholders and working to ensure
the voice of the ICT sector is clearly represented
and heard.
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Next Steps/Actions
 Efforts in the U.S. to enable a Smart Grid are well
underway and these efforts are well represented
by relevant stakeholders including ICT and
power/utility companies and their corresponding
international standards development organizations
(SDOs).
 The ITU-T Focus Group on Smart Grid should be
encouraged to take steps to coordinate its initiative
with U.S. efforts (as well as other international
initiatives as appropriate) to ensure, to the extent
possible, a complementary versus conflicting
approach to enabling the Smart Grid.
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Proposed Resolution
 N/A
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Supplementary Slides
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Current Smart Grid Landscape (1)
 What is the “Smart Grid”? -- Tomorrow’s socalled “Smart Grid” is a means of nextgeneration energy delivery and
measurement. It aims to deliver and monitor
electricity consumption using multidirectional
technologies that dynamically allocate and
meter power flows to ensure increased
efficiency, savings, and reliability.
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Current Smart Grid Landscape (2)
 Current centralized energy distribution
networks are often huge, inefficient grids
that lose power in transmission, require an
overcapacity of generating capability to cope
with unexpected surges in energy use, and
only allow one-way communication — from
provider to consumer. Notwithstanding
these challenges, ICT has the opportunity to
provide the information network required to
make smart grids a reality.
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Current Smart Grid Landscape (3)
 Examples of applications and services
include:
• Development and deployment of an information network
that provides a real-time, demand-side management
system for power grids.
• Support for and integration of renewables and
distributed generation.
• Workflow management systems for the grid.
• Demand-response software that allows automated load
maintenance.
• Protocols for grid wide system interoperability.
• Advanced communications to allow distributed energy
producers to pool resources, and to handle variations in
supply and demand.
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