Shidan Gouran has a recent article at Smart-Grid.tmcnet.com in which he expresses some reservations about smart grid technology.
Grid authorization, authentication and accounting mechanisms, together with a security infrastructure, would be needed to ensure a device’s proper identity, the networks integrity and proper accountability. The accounting process would also have to include sophisticated and decentralized clearing-house services so consumers could charge their PEVs with roaming utilities. Of course all these requirements would extend to every mobile/portable electric device including laptops and other consumer electronics. Turning power consumption into an individualized experience should, in my opinion, be an important goal of the Smart Grid.The idea, basically, is that smart grid is a generally good idea, but it will call for an increasingly Byzantine communications network in order to be effective. The article isn't entirely negative, however, and it sends by saying, "the Smart Grid will look very similar to the most sophisticated IP-based networks of the communications industry," which, despite some snags, has worked out fairly well for the world.
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