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SmartGrid: Cloud Computing & Protocols

This presentation, by Arjun Roychowdhury, Asst. Vice President, SmartEnergy at Hughes Systique Corp and Co-Chair, SIP Forum SmartGrid SIG, was given at the ConnectivityWeek 2010 conference May, 2010. One part of the presentation is about the relevance of cloud technologies, while the other is focussed on why an OpenADR SIP approach is better for a…

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A SIP-based Device Communication Service for OSGi Framework

This paper, authored by Dennis Bushmitch, Wanrong Lin, Andrzej Bieszczad and Alan Kaplan of Panasonic Technologies, and Vasilis Papageorgiou and Algirdas Pakstas of London Metropolitan University, outlines an approach toward extending the OSGi (Open Services Gateway Initiative) framework to support interoperability with mobile devices. The approach is based on the use of SIP (Session Initiation…

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SIP Meets Zigbee

This is a link to a whitepaper authored by Slobodanka Tomic and Petia Todorova, who have put together the framework of SIP, which is the protocol of choice for Next Generation Networks (NGN) and has been gradually expanded to support context-based multimedia communication, and ZigBee, an evolving standard for data dissemination and distributed control in…

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SIP Forum’s Smart Grid SIG: What It Means for Utilities

Arjun Roychowdhury, Assistant Vice President, Applications and Mobile Technologies at Hughes Systique Corporation, and Chair of the SIP Forum’s Smart Grid Special Interest Group, has published a special feature on TMCnet.com about the founding and focus of the group.

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Applicability of SIP in the Smart Grid Ecosystem

This image depicts the various areas within the smartgrid ecosystem that SIP as a protocol may be applicable for. This reference image will also be areas where this SIG will be conducting research and detailed study on the mechanics of how SIP can map, its advantages and/or challenges. This image will continue to evolve over…

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White Paper Draft — Applicability of SIP in SmartGrid Demand & Response Communication

A Demand Response (DR) program is a critical component, typically developed and offered by Utility companies/ISOs that offer participants to contribute effectively for better energy load management/ reduction. Typical participants include individuals as well as small and large corporations. A DR program typically ties in with a dynamic pricing scheme for electricity where participants, depending…

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