Telvent and Microsoft Collaborate to Improve Smart Grid
Telvent is teaming with Microsoft to create more efficient smart grid solutions for the utility industry by leveraging key aspects of their respective technologies which Telvent says will result “in more scalable solutions with higher performance and increased security at a lower cost for utilities throughout the world.” Telvent is a Gold Certified Partner of Microsoft and already utilizes the Microsoft platform.
Telvent, an independent software vendor (ISV), provides real-time IT solutions and the partnership gives the company greater access to Microsoft technology and resources to develop improved solutions for a variety of smart grid needs, including performance metrics, response times, and security. By incorporating more of Microsoft’s Smart Energy Reference Architecture (SERA) and cloud computing platform into Telvent’s solutions, utilities will enjoy reduced IT costs, user-friendly upgrades, and monthly software fees that amortize costs more efficiently than big investment IT projects. Telvent CEO, Ignacio Gonzalez says his company’s real-time utility IT expertise and Microsoft’s enterprise IT expertise “are leading the industry by providing the latest innovative solutions for organizations around the world. Telvent is both honored and pleased to work with Microsoft to develop advanced solutions for the power industry. This collaboration will benefit the energy industry by helping to meet the world’s evolving energy demands.”
Jon Arnold, Microsoft’s managing director of Worldwide Power & Utilities Industry notes that “Utility industry solutions from Microsoft and its partners such as Telvent are based on the world’s most cost-effective, functionally rich IT platform that helps create a more secure computing experience.” Arnold also says Microsoft partners “can use the Microsoft Smart Energy Reference Architecture as the basis for the development of smarter grids and the ‘integrated utility of the future’ because it addresses technology integration throughout the full scope of the smart energy ecosystem. Using Microsoft and partner technologies, utilities will be able to implement faster and more reliably than they otherwise could with the trial-and-error solutions offered by competitors.”
Telvent provides services to the energy, transportation, agricultural and environmental sectors. Recent projects include Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) deployments for Vattenfall (Sweden), Fortum (Finland) and SCADA, DMS, GIS or OMS projects for Consumers Energy (United States), Progress Energy (United States), Distribution Grids of Elektra (Panama), Emcali (Colombia), Saesa (Chile), and CNFL (Costa Rica). For more information : www.telvent.com
