Accent Enabling Advanced Metering Infrastructure for Smart Grid Applications

Accent Enabling Advanced Metering Infrastructure for Smart
Grid Applications

 

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As the world shifts to implementing cleaner forms of energy generation and transmission, countries worldwide are seeking to implement Smart Grid networks. These new technologies will ultimately replace inefficient transmission and distribution infrastructures, enabling mass deployment of advanced bi-directional communication between Utilities and End Users. The stakes are high as a wide range of companies race to participate in this multi-billion dollar market opportunity. On the Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) end, one significant challenge has been to assemble the required mix of technologies while meeting the cost points needed for mass adoption. Accent enables companies to overcome this obstacle by providing state-of-the-art technologies, best-in-class performance and unrivalled circuit integration, dramatically reducing a system BOM.

 

Form and function for a Smart Grid device is driven by many factors, ranging from where the device resides in the network to how the network is distributed. For example, a home electrical metering device would most often rely on shorter-range radio communication technologies such as ZigBee while a data concentrator would rely on longer-range technologies such as Power Line Communication. Accent possesses unsurpassed design expertise in these areas and provides pre-integrated, field-proven IP, accelerating time to market and reducing risk. Accent also offers a one-stop-shop for all other critical technologies, such as microcontrollers and complex mixed-signal/analog technology . Accent capabilities are the result of over 300 successful IC designs to date and tens of millions of parts manufactured for clients. Thus, from design to manufacturing, Accent is enabling system equipment manufacturers achieve unprecedented performance in the AMI space.