The largest energy storage system in the Nordic countries, supplied by Landis+Gyr and Toshiba, has arrived in the Suvilahti area of Helsinki. The battery system weighs about 28 tons and includes over 13 000 lithium-ion SCiB™ battery cells. It was installed in mid-May, in readiness for implementation in early June.
The latest version of Gridstream Converge software, version 3.9, was introduced in May 2015 and version 3.10 is due in January 2017. Today, we announce that Landis+Gyr Converge version 3.9.5 is available for production use, with no restrictions.
Landis+Gyr recently extended its highly successful smart grid solution, Gridstream®with G3-PLC communication technology. This breakthrough offers customers a more secure and stable end-to-end solution for faster, more reliable communication within smart grid infrastructure than ever before. Today, the end-to-end smart metering solution has reached the maturity for general availability for full scale rollouts.
Landis+Gyr has a proven track record as a leading provider of intelligent energy management solutions. Together with our customers we have implemented smart energy projects in the areas of AMI, Smart Grid and ICG solutions.
After extensive testing and field trials of new advanced G3-PLC data communication technology, Landis+Gyr is rolling out a fully certified and complete smart metering solution. G3 has proven its power in several projects across Europe. Our customers welcome the G3-PLC benefits of faster data rate, reliable communications through resilience to external disturbances and flexible internet based architecture that is designed to meet the needs of today and tomorrow.
Before the Internet of Things (IoT) captured the world’s imagination the utility industry relied on machine-to-machine (M2M) technology to help manage operations. Much of the industry still does and, truth be told, M2M fulfills much the same functions as IoT, so why all the hype about IoT ushering in a new era?
