Microgrids and M2M

摘要

Beecham Research Ltd. is focused exclusively on the $45-billion machine-to-machine (M2M) market and views microgrids from that perspective, lying within the energy service sector, one of nine sectors tracked by Beecham.M2M is primarily about remotely monitoring assets of all kinds.The technology has existed under other names for decades in manufacturing automation-where wired transmission control protocol/Internet protocol (TCP/IP) networks were installed in aircraft manufacturing plants and programmable logic controllers (PLCs) communicated with plant floor machinery in the '80s-and in the generating plants and substations of electrical utilities.