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Phillips: Utilities continue buying obsolete first-generation smart meters
“And there's still decisions being made for a previous generations of meters.”
Insight
Phillips: High-frequency data access matters more than edge processing power
“I've been a little less concerned about that, because for computation, you can always be very efficient about your algorithms, and you can make trade-offs from the algorithms. The reason we're more concerned about the data is if you don't have the data, you do…”
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Phillips: High-resolution edge computing enables real-time grid visibility
“Technical capabilities, so high resolution data, edge computing, real-time networking that we use to interact with consumers on what's happening in their home, we can look the other direction and we can see what the grid is doing in real time from the edge.”
Insight
Phillips: Treat smart meters as distributed computing platforms, not collection devices
“Once you start to think of this as a distributed platform, not just a data collection device, this entire world of making use of the data at the edge and AI machine learning at the edge starts to get opened up.”
Insight
Phillips: Legacy smart meter architecture cannot support real-time grid visibility
“Low-resolution data sent up to the service provider, made available later on, and look, there's some things you can do with that, but you just can't have a real-time, consumer-facing app, and then you can't see the grid in real-time from the edge either.”
Insight
Phillips: High-resolution meter data enables real-time grid fault detection
“What we've learned since then is that same high-resolution data lets us see, ah, the grid from the edge, lets us see transformers arcing, lets us see vegetation hanging power lines in real-time. That only happens through high-resolution data.”
Insight
Phillips: Next-gen smart meters require three core technical capabilities
“There are just these three main topics that I've been talking about, which is getting access to the right data, so high-resolution waveform data. It's well known how to do that. It's mature technology, we know how to do that. Having enough computation so that …”
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Phillips: Sense devices collect up to one million data samples per second
“We started to build these little orange boxes that go inside electrical panels and collect data at super high resolution, up to a million samples a second in the little orange box.”
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Phillips: Modern smart meters capture 50 million times more data
“There's meters on the market that are doing that at 15,000 times per second. So, so that's fifty million times more data than AMI one dot O.”
Disclosure
Phillips: Sense develops megahertz-sampling meters to detect transformer arcing
“We are working with some of the meter makers to have the next generations of meters that have even higher sampling rates than that, going all the way up to megahertz, and that's unlocking some more use cases around arc fault detection, you know, when there's a…”
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Phillips: Smart home devices still fail to communicate their operational status
“Look, if smart devices were fully enabled and every device out in your home told us what it was doing, we'd be happy to use that. But it's far from being the case.”
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Phillips: Legacy utility portals suffer from low consumer engagement
“Look, frankly, not a lot of people use those portals. I think there's pretty well defined metrics that these haven't got a lot of use.”
