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Provides policy-based networking software for the utility industry.
Year Established: | 2006 |
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Address: | San Francisco, CA 94107 |
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Mail: | info@grid-net.com |
Company URL: | http://www.grid-net.com |
December 22 2009 â Predicting the next 12 months is both unavoidable and irresistible at this time of year so here are my best guesses for whatââ¬â¢s in store for the Smart Grid in 2010.
Motorola GE and Grid Net are part of a group of companies looking to bring a WiMax 4G-based smart grid program to Australia. Officials with the companies say the initiative will be the first smart grid based on the WiMax wireless platform. The program includes the installation of smart meters in almost 700000 households and businesses in Australia by 2013.
October 22 2009 â GE Energy Services announced today that SP AusNet one of Australiaâs largest utilities will be the first in the world to implement GEâs WiMAX fourth-generation (4G) smart grid solution. Working with other top-tier technology and telecommunications companies GE is introducing a game-changing smart grid solution to deliver revolutionary security and reliability benefits to nearly 700000 Australian households while helping SP AusNet prepare for the future of smart grid innovationâfrom plug-in cars to solar on rooftops.
October 22 2009 â General Electric and Grid Net have landed the first big WiMax smart meter deployment with utility SP AusNet in Australia. Could more WiMAX smart meters be on the horizon?
October 22 2009 â This morning Grid Net a startup that has developed smart grid software based on WiMAX is officially launching itself unveiling its software product and announcing Australian utility customer SP AusNet as well as a whole host of partners including GE Motorola Cisco Intel and WiMAX service provider Clearwire.
October 22 2009 â GE is providing the meter communications technology across the network and supplying half of the projectâs smart meters. GridNet is providing its PolicyNet SmartGrid network management system software suite to manage the meters controllers switches and other devices. Motorola is providing the communications infrastructure.
October 22 2009 â SP AusNetââ¬â¢s John Steel said the utility chose WiMAX in general and Grid Netââ¬â¢s technology in particular because it wanted to build a network based on open standards one thatââ¬â¢s interoperable with a wide range of technologies.
September 11 2009 â [A]nother reason to use WiMAX on the smart grid is that WiMAX is an open standard that can benefit from the economies of scale created by participating companies like GE Intel and Motorola. That means the price point of WiMAX gear is expected to come down dramatically if the technology gains traction. Ray Bell CEO of smart-grid software maker Grid Net told us that WiMAX chipsets currently cost around $36 but in a year theyââ¬â¢ll be closer to $12 and in another six months they could hit $8 or even $6.
August 25 2009 â The international open standards consortium OASIS has formed a new group to enable the collaborative and transactive use of energy. The new OASIS Energy Interoperation Technical Committee will develop Web services-based information and communication models for exchanging dynamic pricing reliability and emergency signals.
May 15 2008 â Newcomer Grid Net has allied with General Electric and Intel to bring a new generation of electrical power meters to homes and businesses. These meters come with mobile WiMax built in. The resulting Smart Grid communications and networking platform promises to allow both the utility company and customers to be able to actively manage and control their electrical use and costs and to make WiMax as ubiquitous as electrical power. American Electric Power and EnergyAustralia are already deploying these smart power meters.
May 7 2008 â Sprint Nextel and Clearwire will form a joint venture worth US$14.5 billion to deploy the first nationwide mobile WiMax network they said Wednesday. The new company which will be called Clearwire is also backed by Intel Google Comcast Time Warner Cable and Brightcove Networks.
May 7 2008 â The clunky brownout-prone electricity distribution system is about to enter the Computer Age and Grid Netâs smart meter could be the key.
Judith McGarry Grid Net
(415) 971-2900
jhmcgarry@grid-net.com
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Ray Bell, Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Ray Bell has over twenty-five years of experience from Oracle Corporation, Cisco Systems, SmartPipes (a company he founded) and Computer Power, where he has served in many advanced engineering, product development, product management and senior management roles. He has an extensive technical background and many years of expertise in designing, developing & deploying advanced networking management and control systems, security infrastructures, and distributed computing systems products.
Ray is an expert in the fields of advanced metering, networking, Internet protocols, security technologies, relational systems, web services, and he has significant experience in complex object oriented design & modeling and schema development. Ray currently serves as the Chairman of OpenAMI, an open standards initiative in the utility industry for advanced metering and demand response systems. A graduate of U.C. Berkeley, Ray is presently a member of the IEC TC57 WG14 and IEC TC13 WG14 and he has made significant contributions to the DMTF and IETF during his career.
Andres Carvallo, EVP and Chief Strategy Officer
Andres is responsible for the company’s branding, messaging, partnerships, marketing, commercialization, support and solutions efforts worldwide. Andres has more than 24 years of experience in the energy, telecommunications, computer, and software industries. Having held executive management positions since 1992, he has been responsible for the successful development and commercialization of over 40 products, in companies ranging from start-ups to market leaders such as Philips Electronics, Digital Equipment Corporation, Borland, and Microsoft.
Prior to Grid Net, Andres was chief information officer at Austin Energy, the 9th largest public power utility in the nation. At Austin Energy, he was responsible for the utility’s technology vision, planning, development and operations. While at Austin Energy, Andres defined and promoted the term “Smart Grid”, was the chief architect of the first Smart Grid to be fully deployed in the U.S., became the premier Smart Grid industry thought leader, and led a comprehensive, highly lauded technology transformation of the utility. Andres has made many industry-wide contributions: he was a contributor to the 2007 Energy Independence and Security Act’s Title XIII Smart Grid: Sections 1301 -1309; he served as a key advisor and contributor to NIST and EPRI in the creation of the Smart Grid Interoperability Standards; and he has advised the DOE, FCC, EPA, and NERC in their Smart Grid policy initiatives. Andres received a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Kansas with a concentration in Robotics and Control Systems. Andres has also completed executive management programs at the University of Idaho, Stanford University, and The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.