Yearly Archives: 2012

The Smart Grid and Natural Disasters

By admin in Standards at Work on 12/20/2012 Comments closed
Each new large-scale natural disaster delivers its own unique cocktail of heartache and damage, but the need to modernize the electrical grid is a common denominator—growing only more glaring with each new setback. The globally emerging smart grid, of course, will not eliminate the threat of devastation, but developing aspects of the next-generation infrastructure would [...]

Ethernet Network Design Issues in the Substation

By admin in Standards at Work on 12/18/2012 Comments closed
Sam Sciacca’s article for Consulting-Specifying Engineer (CSE), “Ethernet Network Design Issues in the Substation” addresses the trend toward greater use of Ethernet, which is an IEEE standard (IEEE 802.3) suite comprising the “seven layer model” in communications created by the ISO, or International Organization for Standardization. Despite Ethernet’s apparent ubiquity, the CSE working on a [...]

Designing Substations and Transformers for Bi-Directional Power Flow

By admin in Standards at Work on 12/13/2012 Comments closed
Sam Sciacca’s two-part article for Consulting-Specifying Engineer (CSE), “Designing Substations and Transformers for Bi-Directional Power Flow” and “Designing substations, transformers for bi-directional power flow, Part II” are based on the CSE webcast presentation he gave on 8 November 2012, titled, “Critical Power: What’s New in Electrical Engineering: Smart Grid and Transformers.” Designing a substation for [...]

IEEE-SA Recognizes Outstanding Leadership Achievements in the Advancement of New Technologies

By admin in Announcements, Inside the IEEE-SA on 12/04/2012 Comments closed
IEEE Standards Association (IEEE-SA) held the 2012 IEEE-SA Awards on Sunday, 2 December 2012, at the Hyatt Regency New Brunswick in New Brunswick, N.J. IEEE-SA Awards are presented to members and non-members in recognition of their outstanding standards development participation. The 2012 IEEE-SA categories and winners include: IEEE-SA Corporate Award: STMicroelectronics For outstanding corporate leadership [...]

IEEE-SA President Speaks at the Global Standards Symposium

By admin in Inside the IEEE-SA, International Collaboration on 11/27/2012 Comments closed
On 19 November, IEEE-SA President Steve Mills addressed the Global Standards Symposium in Dubai. The Global Standards Symposium (GSS) is a one-day event where ministers, regulators, heads of other international, regional and major national standards bodies, and industry from the different regions of the world discuss global ICT standards challenges, with a focus on the [...]

Political and Regulatory Patchwork Governs Interconnection Policies

By Admin in Standards at Work on 11/08/2012 Comments closed
Sam Sciacca’s article, Political and Regulatory Patchwork Governs Interconnection Policies, advises consulting specifying engineers on how local authorities such as state public utility commissions govern most aspects of projects that interconnect wholesale, bi-directional power sources to the electric grid. Anticipating and quantifying the variables affected by local politics and regulation can prepare CSEs to deal [...]

Internet of Things (IoT) Workshop – Milan, Italy

By Admin in Announcements on 11/06/2012 Comments closed
Creating a Vibrant IoT Ecosystem through Consensus-Based Collaboration It is predicted that 50 to 100 billion things will be electronically connected by 2020. This Internet of Things (IoT) will fuel technology innovation by creating the means for machines to communicate many different types of information with one another. With all objects in the world connected, [...]