Tollgrade receives 2014 Smart Grid Product of the Year Award

Date
05/29/2014

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Tollgrade Communications, Inc., the industry leader in redefining the global standard for reliability at the world’s largest electric utilities and telecommunications providers, announced today that their LightHouse® line of smart grid sensors has received a 2014 Smart Grid Product of the Year Award from SmartGrid. Tollgrade’s LightHouse platform provides electric utilities with real-time visibility into their distribution grid, enabling them to improve reliability, visibility, and grid modernization and to optimize network planning.

“We are pleased to receive this Product of the Year Award from SmartGrid” said Erik Christian, Vice President of Smart Grid for Tollgrade Communications. “Today’s electric utilities need to much more actively monitor and manage their voltage levels from the substation throughout the entire distribution network. As more sources of Distributed Generation (DG) are introduced from alternative energy sources such as solar and wind, they change the profile of how power is flowing through the grid, making intermediate voltage measurements on a feeder a requirement. Our LightHouse platformwas designed to help them address this.”

Tollgrade’s LightHouse solution is helping utilities solve the real-world challenges that impact the reliability of the distribution grid. Tollgrade helps utilities reach their goals in terms of visibility, reliability, asset protection and outage avoidance, as well as grid modernization and the management of renewable energy sources, all while saving them substantially on their OpEx costs. Unlike other sensors on the market, Tollgrade’s LightHouse platform of inductively powered smart grid sensors are hot stick deployable and measure voltage down to 0.5%.

Tollgrade’s LightHouse sensors come with wireless data plans to send data back to the utility’s SCADA and historians at their operations centers. Combined with Tollgrade’s predictive analytics software, LightHouse monitoring allows utilities to protect high-value assets, detect outages before customers call, and, in many cases, prevent future problems. Today, LightHouse is used by some of the world’s largest Investor Owned Utilities (IOUs), Distribution System Operators (DSOs), municipalities and co-ops on three continents.

“The solutions that have been selected for the 2014 Smart Grid Product of the Year Award reflect the diverse range of innovation driving this market. Congratulations to Tollgrade which exemplified the best of smart grid technologies in the past year,” said Carl Ford, CEO & Community Developer, Crossfire Media.

“It is my pleasure to recognize Tollgrade with a Smart Grid Product of the Year Award for its contribution to the advancement of smart grid technologies,” said Rich Tehrani, CEO, TMC. “I look forward to seeing more innovation from Tollgrade in the coming year.”

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