Smart Grid
Meeting the Standards That Don’t Apply
Contributed by Joanne C. Kelleher The Hawaii Natural Energy Institute put together The Maui Smart Grid Project team to evaluate new smart-grid technologies and collect feedback from the community. A recent article in the Maui News, Smart Grid Project Concerns Addressed, said : The project team considers the safety and satisfaction of participants extremely important, and there…
Read MoreThe NIST TIP Programmatic Plan lists Smart Grid for FY2012-FY2014. Why not sooner?
Contributed by Joanne C. Kelleher The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), under its Technology Innovation Program (TIP), posted their Programmatic Plan: FY 2011 FY 2014 at http://www.nist.gov/tip/upload/tip_programmatic_plan_fy2011_fy2014_01_25_2011.pdf. The plan outlines TIP’s current thinking as to possible directions for future funding. TIP addresses the nation’s critical needs by offering competitive, cost-shared funding opportunities for high-risk,…
Read MoreAttended the GE ecomagination Challenge award ceremony: SecureRF selected for investment
Contributed by Joanne C. Kelleher On Tuesday I had the pleasure of going to New York City with Louis Parks, SecureRF’s CEO, and Mark Javello, a SecureRF advisor. We attended the GE ecomagination award ceremony. The GE ecomagination Challenge is an open competition for ideas and solutions for energy and the Smart Grid. Almost 4,000…
Read MoreHBR and Tomorrow’s Smart Grid
Contributed by Joanne C. Kelleher When I hear Harvard Business Review I think of those HBR case studies we had to do when I got my MBA. But, I recently added the HBR blog to my news feed and I have been impressed with the topics they have been covering. Last month I wrote about…
Read MoreDemystifying Smart Grid Security
Contributed by Joanne C. Kelleher Demystifying Smart Grid Security, an article written by the lead researcher on smart grids and smart cities at Forrester Research, appeared in a Harvard Business Review blog and then on BusinessWeek. It is a good overview of what the Smart Grid is and three overarching challenges to smart grid security:…
Read MoreSecureRF is a Finalist in the Global Security Challenge
The fifth annual Global Security Challenge competition, the largest and leading international competition for security innovators, offers security entrepreneurs the opportunity to showcase their inventions and compete for over $500,000 in cash support, sponsored by the TSWG of the US Government. The competition aims to identify, explore and foster innovation in the field of homeland…
Read MoreA Vote for Securing the Social Network of Devices a Safer Smart Grid
Contributed by Joanne C. Kelleher GE’s Ecomagination Challenge is a $200 million call to action for businesses, entrepreneurs, innovators, and students to share their best ideas and come together to take on one of the world’s toughest challenges building the next-generation power grid to meet the needs of the 21st century. SecureRF has submitted an…
Read MoreSmart Grid Security Warnings
Contributed by Joanne C. Kelleher A few weeks ago I posted a blog entry titled Lack Of Security In Smart-Meter Rollouts. This topic continues to get an increasing amount of press, including these two articles: Smart Power Grids a Prime Target in Cyber Warfare in Security Week. http://www.securityweek.com/smart-power-grids-prime-target-cyber-warfare Energy Insecurities: The Downside of Being Too…
Read MoreLack of Security in Smart-Meter Rollouts
Contributed by Joanne C. Kelleher Smart Grid security covers a wide spectrum of technologies from fences and video cameras at the power generation facilities and substations to securing the data in the embedded systems and metering devices used to monitor and adjust a homeowner’s usage. These Smart Meter security issues have been in the news a lot recently. Elinor…
Read MoreSecureRF Granted First Patent – Cryptographic Solution Suitable for Embedded or Low Resource Computing Devices
Contributed by Joanne C. Kelleher SecureRF Corporation has received its first patent! The United States Patent and Trademark Office has granted SecureRF U.S. Patent 7,649,999 for the world’s first cryptography method to run in linear time. The patented algorithm provides a key agreement protocol and a method for generating a secret key to facilitate secure…
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