Gathering data from multiple sources and storing it in several places to which one human holds the key is about as passe as licking stamps for paper billing.Information technology (IT) is making it easy for utilities to get quicker access to better information than they even knew they had. Utilities across the nation already sit on generation, transmission and distribution data gold mines, and the coming smart grid is pushing them to grab that good stuff and store it for accessibility. Smart grid data retrieval must be seamless, secure and snappy.
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