I have received the below email from Senior Program Manager of the IEEE Standards Association:
You are receiving this email because you have signed up as in-person attendee for the IEEE SCC21 P2030 smart grid interoperability standard development meeting June 3-5, 2009 in Santa Clara CA hosted by INTEL at the corporate headquarters conference facility.
Please note: Due to high demand for in-person attendance we are asking that if you have determined you cannot attend, please send me an email at XYZ–@ieee.org immediately indicating you will not be attending. This will allow others to take your place.
According to Intel, they are limiting the number of attendees to 150. The NIST May 19th and 20th will have over 400 people.
There are too many people and companies trying to influence the outcome of the Smart Grid. The Telecoms providers – Verizon, At&T, T-Mobile, etc - want the Smart Grid to use their 3G network at the meter, others wants to use the ZigBee Mesh topology, and do not forget about HomePlug, Wi-Fi, and 4G WiMax (or is it a 4G? I thought it is dead!)
The last thing I heard is the use of SIP messaging. I can not see my grandma trying to figure out SIP. She just wants to reduce here energy bill!
More to follow, stay tuned…
