The smart grid a massive shift as utilities move from the existing world of proprietary, standards-based legacy technologies and towards an architecture that will require a much greater degree of interoperability and use of open standards. Despite barriers currently prevent widespread adoption, the fact that it is possible at all to apply open source models is a testament to how far the utility industry has come in the past few years.
via Report: An Open Source Smart Grid Primer — GigaOM Pro.
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