Powerline smart grid proponents go head-to-head at the Connectivity Week shooting off competing announcements aimed at the emerging market for smart electric grids. Adversaries were quick to admit the market potential is huge, but the there is still no end in sight to years of fragmentation in their technical approaches.
The HomePlug Powerline Alliance announced its GreenPHY specification for low-power smart grid applications and said STMicroelectronics has joined the group. The competing HomeGrid Forum said the ITU G.hn specification it backs could be ratified within weeks and it formed a new working group to create design guidelines to develop clean technology products using it.
via Powerline smart grid proponents compete at Connectivity Week-Network Design-EE Times-India.
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