Product Vendors

RuggedCom
RuggedCom has developed communications products and technologies specifically designed to operate reliably
in harsh environments such as those found in electric utility substations.  These products comprise what they call
as RuggedGRID™ solution and are designed to create a reliable and rugged information backbone for the Smart
Grid:

RuggedGRID - The Information Backbone of the Smart Grid™

RuggedCom has developed communications products and technologies specifically designed to operate reliably
in harsh environments such as those found in electric utility substations. These products comprise what we call
our RuggedGRID™ solution and are designed to create a reliable and rugged information backbone for the
Smart Grid:

 RuggedSwitch® family of Ethernet switches which are the choice of over 700 electric utilities around
the world for implementing reliable substation LANs (local area networks) for intra-substation
communications used in mission critical applications including power system protection and control.
 RuggedRouter® family of substation hardened cyber security appliances which provides protection
against cyber attack of the Smart Grid and a secure method for implementing inter-substation
communications across the Smart Grid using a variety of media and technologies. RuggedCom
products are designed to provide the information backbone of the Smart Grid.
 RuggedBackbone™ multiservice switching and routing platform which combines the best of
RuggedSwitch® and RuggedRouter® in a modular, hot-swappable, high-port density architecture.
 RuggedWireless™ family of substation hardened wireless products which include cellular, Wifi and
WiMAX technologies. These products allow communications over widely dispersed locations from pole
tops to substations and enable such applications as: AMI, Distribution Automation, SCADA and Mobile
Workforce
 RuggedNMS™ - Network Management Software
RuggedNMS™ is fully-featured enterprise grade network management software based on the
OpenNMS platform. Specifically for the rugged communications industry, RuggedNMS™ provides a
comprehensive platform for monitoring, configuring, and maintaining mission-critical IP-based
communications networks, such as those found in substation automation and “Smart Grids” for electric
utilities, intelligent transportation systems, and advanced control and automation for industrial
processes.

Key Players & Competitors

Satyam:
Mahindra Satyam is at the forefront of various technologies and the new energy industry working with clients
across electric & gas utilities and suppliers. They have strong capabilities that include advisory consulting,
product engineering, designing, evaluating and delivering across the various technologies with in the smart grid.
Their extensive understanding of both utilities and suppliers has positioned them perfectly to solve new
generation of challenges that the utilities are facing.

Highlights
  Thorough knowledge of utility economics and business planning processes, including regulatory
treatment, those are required to develop a profitable Smart Grid strategy and business case for
investment.
 Deep understanding of the implications of integrating new technologies with existing T&D infrastructure,
including Smart Meter/AMI, Distribution and Substation Automation, Outage Management,
Distributed Generation and Distribution Management.
 Long-term experience helping utilities deal with the broader critical issues that they face, including asset
management, regulatory policy, reliability and safety, vendor selection, and supply chain management.
 Their strong expertise in systems integration can work with utilities from developing a vision, creating
a road map, designing and building a pilot to a full scale roll out

Smart Grid Offerings by Mahindra Satyam

Consulting and Advisory Services

 Visioning and strategic planning

 Strategy and business case development
 Develop roadmap, evaluate alternatives
 Conducting feasibility studies
 Performing proof of concept exercises
 Conducting regulatory compliance
 Rate design and billing using interval data

System Integration

 Perform fit gap analysis

 Turnkey AMI deployment           
 Testing solution
 Integrate new applications on ESB / SOA platform 

Alliances / Relationships

They have alliances and relationships with key vendors such as Allegro, DataStream, & Fuel Quest, which offer
solutions specifically along the different streams of Energy & Utility vertical. 
TCS:
Their Smart Grid Solutions work across the value chain of Smart landscape, from assessment to deployment of a
smart grid. We help to devise a smart grid strategy by assessing existing setup, performing gap analysis and
creating roadmap for a successful pilot to enterprise wide roll-outs. These are backed by Proof-of-Concepts
(PoC) that measure the solution efficiency and the actual value of the benefits, the cost involved and the
distribution of cost and benefits of smart metering for the Utility concerned

The strength of their solution lies in the flexibility to opt between a complete implementation and individual
component solution from our Smart Framework, to address your specific needs. While integrating with your
existing applications, our consultants

also help you choose the best suited Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) for your specific requirements and
help in designing the end-to-end deployment map from inception to enterprise roll-outs.
Our Accelerators

Our solutions are complemented by our unique accelerators for smart metering, distribution automation,
transmission automation, and distributed generation integration. These accelerators have been developed
through our expertise at our Center of Excellence (CoE) for Smart Grid as well as our CoInnovation Network
(COIN)™. They help reduce deployment risk and ensure rapid Smart Grid implementation. The accelerators
include:

Smart Portals: The Portal is built to demonstrate some of key customer services & self services portals around
smart such as consumption analytics, smart product choice, registration & profile management , billing &
payment and customer complaint to mention a few.

ESB Prototype: A prototype integrating different applications such as customer portals, billing, MDMS, OMS,
work management and taking care of model driven integration, synchronous & asynchronous flow, business
process based integration, scheduled based integration ,to mention a few.

Set-top Box: Energy Information Gateway – Set top box being prototyped as energy information gateway and
enables HAN integration, communicates to meter, provides in premise energy management & utility portals

CEP driven Real Time Intelligence: Use of complex event processing on data from PMU, DMS, AMI and other
events to derive Real Time Intelligence like classification and location of faults.

SMART Framework: A framework to accelerate the integration in smart domain. It can act as a stand in meter
data management system or can expose meter data based services to backend applications like billing, work
management portals.

MDM Prototype: Processes of Master data set up, meter data reading, meter data validation, editing, estimation
and aggregations as billing determinant using different MDMS

Complex Billing: Complex billing prototype around smart products involving critical peak pricing with interruptible
components.

Smart Analysis Framework: An analysis framework for business & technical architecture definition. The same can
be used to define the business process around smart and create roadmap for implementation.
Benefits of TCS’ Smart Grid Solutions

Why TCS

While helping you through the entire Smart Grid journey from inception till maturity, we bring you benefits such
as:

Increased agility. Our solution accelerators provide a base to ensure faster implementation, thereby improving
your ability to respond to business changes.

Better technology. Our solutions are based on new technologies that help you improve application performance,
management, and integration capabilities, ensuring enterprise-wide compatibility.

Scalability. The Smart Grid application can be deployed in pilot-size and scaled up to meet enterprise
requirements.

Reduced cost. Giving you the flexibility to choose application components to suit your requirements, we help you
reduce costs in purchase of the offering and ensure you get the best value for money.

Best practices. Our solutions incorporate industry best practices in terms of process implementation, to give
youthe best-in-class solutions.

Smart Experience: We have a strong end to end customer base across the globe including leading utility clients
at US, UK, Australia, and India. The gamut of our experience ranges from Assessment & Roadmap, POC, Pilot
Roll out and Enterprise Roll out.

Smart Processes: Our solution framework is technology agnostic. Each of our project accelerators is unique on
its own & leverages on technology best suited for scalability and performance. The use of SOA patterns and
loose coupling makes it easy to integrate to Industry Solutions like SAP, Oracle at the same time legacy
applications. Our Smart Process also addresses the 3 key dimensions of Smart Execution: Customer
Engagements, Gradual Integrations & ROI monitoring.

Smart Alliances: Our strategic alliances with key players in the Smart space give us access to packaged
solutions with creativity and flexibility of bespoken modules.

Celergy Networks 

Celergy Networks has been a recognized leader in IT and communications network services for over
twenty years, and was one of the first systems integrators to enter the Smart Grid market, where it has
been active since mid-2008. Its scope of work extends from high level consulting through design to
project implementation including wide-area radio systems deployment (such as for SCADA, voice
comms, ops data and security), core networks (dark fiber, ATM, microwave etc), and AMI (Advanced
Metering Infrastructure). Celergy has done significant work in vendor selection, planning and business
case analysis and is familiar with the heavily regulated environment of the energy utilities.

Celergy
has entered this market early and established an excellent track record. It is well-positioned and I see
many opportunities to assist in the upgrade and expansion of North American utilities' networks as well
as to grow our own business.”

Celergy Networks has been a recognized leader in IT and communications network services for over twenty
years, and was one of the first systems integrators to enter the Smart Grid market, where we have been active
since mid-2008. Our offerings include project planning and management, network build and maintenance, and
consulting services around Smart Grid. 

Celergy’s consulting services are in the areas of communications and IT networks, including wide-area radio
systems deployment (for SCADA, voice comms, ops data, site security and so on), core networks (dark fiber,
ATM, microwave etc), and AMI (Advanced Metering Infrastructure). 

We have done significant work in vendor selection, planning and business case analysis. Celergy is familiar with
the regulatory and grant-assisted environment and has advised and assisted with the obtaining of Stimulus
Funds through the Department of Energy (DoE). 
Systems Design And Systems Deployment, Nationwide!
One of the first systems integrators to enter the Smart Grid sector, Celergy offers core competence in fixed and
wireless communications networks. Its technical know-how is backed up with practical experience in end-to-end
delivery to energy utilities while working within the regulatory and grant-assisted environment of the industry.
Celergy has built on its experience with significant investments in personnel and training to meet the challenges
posed by the upgrade and roll-out of Smart Grid and is positioned not only to implement but also to advise its
clients in strategic matters such as vendor selection and network architecture.

Ability to Deliver – Nationwide

Celergy is a project implementer, par excellence. We work with a network of 3,000 subcontractors throughout the
USA and Canada to implement and deliver IT and Communications projects. Whether the actual work involves
structured cabling, server installations, site surveys or desktop provisioning Celergy has the reach and the
resources to get the job done – efficiently and to the highest quality. We achieve this not through any network of
regional offices, but through a sophisticated in-house system of project management, backed up with our own IT
and project management tool kit (called “Advantage”). The result is that from the client’s perspective, Celergy is
the last stop in the supply chain, and can be relied upon to deliver what is needed.

 
Strategic Advice and Planning from a Systems Integrator
With its core business underpinned by systems integration and rollout, Celergy is uniquely positioned to offer
high value professional consultancy as a value-added service. It can do this cost-effectively because we provide
the same business, technology and engineering experts for client consulting projects as we do to organize and
run our major implementation projects. Whether we compare our cost structure with that of a boutique
consultancy or a big-name firm, our staff utilization is more efficient, our sales and marketing overheads are
lower, and we are happy to pass on those savings to our clients. 

The big advantage for Celergy in consulting services is that the advice and knowledge that we bring is rooted in
practical experience. Our knowledge and experience is current, in a sector that is moving extremely fast, and we
certainly live by our own advice in the projects that we run. We believe our expertise and grass-roots practicality
to be culturally well-positioned within the sector that we serve, and by definition is not something that a dedicated
consulting firm would be able to offer.

PARTNERING WITH MAJOR SYSTEMS INTEGRATORS 

Strength in Depth! 

Celergy welcomes partnerships with System Integrators and will be pleased to take on subcontract projects
where Celergy can bring to bear its strengths of quality, efficiency, experience in the space and its geographical
coverage. We are also happy to introduce larger System Integrators as prime contractors to projects that, for
example, extend into Europe or Asia, or otherwise extend beyond the scope that Celergy alone could deliver.

Celergy has a delivery capability that spans the whole of the USA and Canada, geared towards implementation
projects via our network of 3,000 small-to-medium sized local subcontractors. Through our long association with
these, and the sophisticated, proprietary project management software tools and processes that we have been
refining since 1989, we deliver national scale roll-out projects to the highest standards of quality and timeliness
and do so without the overhead of a nationwide network of regional offices. 

Who are the companies participating in the smart grid?

The smart grid is shaping up to be a giant mash-up of the electricity utility, computing, and
communications industries.
Heavyweight tech companies--Cisco, IBM, Microsoft, and Google--all have serious initiatives in this area
and loom large among utility executives working on smart-grid programs.
IBM, which sees big dollar signs when it gets involved in large infrastructure projects, is building the
technology backbone for many grid modernization programs. That includes installing communications
equipment along the grid as well as the software and servers to process the mountains of data that need to
be processed.
Cisco, too, is jumping in with both feet with a broad initiative to supply networking equipment for utilities
as well as in-home energy management tools. Verizon is looking at this as well, seeing the home network
as a point to gather data on home energy use and, potentially, control lighting and appliances for better
efficiency.
Microsofta nd Google are going after consumers as well while trying to sign on utility partners.
The other key players are the host of start-ups in the area, many of which focus on energy displays. A
handful of stronger network-oriented companies are emerging, notably Silver Spring Networks, which
offers a wireless card that goes into smart meters.
Finally, there's the electrical infrastructure itself: meters, transformers, transmission equipment, and other
hardware that makes the grid tick. In addition to a number of smart meter makers, there are the global
infrastructure companies like GE, Siemens, and ABB that are introducing modern control systems to
manage the flow of electricity

Verizon