Ambient PLC module improves communication on downtown underground grid architectures

DistribuTECH, SAN ANTONIO, USA: Ambient Corp., provider of a secure, flexible, and scalable smart grid communications and applications platform, announced that its Ambient Smart Grid Nodes now have an optional Powerline Communications (PLC) Module to improve automation and communication on downtown underground grid architectures that pose a challenge to wireless communication.

PLC facilitates secure, high-speed, highly reliable communication over the existing low and medium voltage grid, and helps minimize infrastructure and operational costs.

Ambient helps utilities modernize the grid with IP-based networking products and applications that integrate and connect existing and future grid assets on a secure, flexible, and scalable smart grid communications platform.

Ambient's Smart Grid Node family enables real-time data communication for multiple applications, in parallel: smart metering, distributed generation and storage, demand response, and distribution automation.