On-Ramp Wireless says it has solved a number of the problems with smart grid communications and better yet, they have done it in such a way that may allow them to avoid becoming road kill in an increasingly competitive marketplace.
The San Diego-based company has devised a networking platform called Ultra-Link Processing (ULP) that reads like a utility’s network manager’s wish list — in theory, anyway. ULP signals have a five-mile range, do not get obstructed by steel or concrete (the company put one under a manhole cover and could still maintain signal connections for two miles), and can carry enough data to provide remote monitoring or demand response services, according to CEO Joaquin Silva.
via A Qualcomm for the Smart Grid? : Greentech Media.
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