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INTERNATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATION UNION
FOCUS GROUP ON
SMART GRID
TELECOMMUNICATION
STANDARDIZATION SECTOR
Smart-O-0041
English only
STUDY PERIOD 2009-2012
Original: English
WG(s):
All
Geneva, 14-16 June 2010
DOCUMENT
Source:
ITU-T Focus Group on Smart Grid
Title:
Request for input regarding use cases and network architectures for Smart Grid
LIAISON STATEMENT
For action to:
IEC, NIST, ZIGBEE, IEEE P2030, ETSI (M2M & SmartGrid), EPRI and
Energy@home
For comment to:
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For information to:
TSAG
Approval:
Agreed to at the 14 - 16 June 2010 FG on Smart Grid meeting
Deadline:
16 July 2010
Les Brown
Lantiq
Germany
Contact:
Tel: +1 (905) 826-4248
Cell: +1 (647) 290-1900
Email: les.brown@lantiq.com
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I have the pleasure to inform you that ITU-T has established a new Focus Group on
Smart Grid with the objective of bringing the best value from the telecommunication
experts to industry. To achieve this objective, the Focus Group will
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update living list of standards bodies, forums, and consortia dealing with smart
grid,
collect visions and value propositions for the smart grid,
provide terminology and taxonomy necessary to support smart grid,
analyze communication networking requirement functions and capabilities to
support smart grid,
gather new ideas relevant to and identify potential study areas to support smart
grid,
identify use cases of smart grid that can be used to derive communication network
requirements,
suggest future ITU-T study items and related actions, and
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identify potential impacts on standards development.
One of the first tasks of the Focus Group is to collect and document information and
concepts that are needed in order to develop deliverables (technical specifications,
reports, etc.) to support smart grid from an ICT perspective.
In order to take advantage of the excellent work that has already been done by your group
to date, and to avoid duplication of work in the future, we would like to request your
input on the results that have been produced by your organization in the following areas:
- Smart grid application use cases and analysis of their requirements with respect to
communications and network technologies in support of these applications, and
- Network architectures and network management and control issues for wide area
networks, access networks, neighborhood network, and home area networks in
support of smart grid.
We would appreciate if the information could be provided to us by Friday July 16, 2010.
Best regards,
Les Brown,
ITU-T Focus Group on Smart Grid Chair
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