Smart Grid
As the population grows and power infrastructure ages, grids and microgrids require dynamic monitoring and control systems that provide processing flexibility to scale distribution, optimize grid assets, and analyze grid performance.
NI Expertise Overview
NI control and measurement technology helps utilities and power systems engineers to create a smarter grid to improve grid integration of renewable energy sources, implement automated analytics, advance situation awareness, and improve overall energy efficiency. NI offers design tools, test systems, and embedded deployment platforms that give engineers the ability to rapidly explore new approaches, streamline discovery and production, and deploy their innovations in ruggedized measurement and control systems. NI-based solutions use open, customizable measurement tools to meet the unique needs of an industry filled with utility grids that rarely exhibit the same problems.
Featured Content
Enhancing Energy Security and Access With a Smart Mini Grid System
Based on CompactRIO hardware and LabVIEW, a smart mini grid system can ensure a higher degree of flexibility, reliability, efficiency, and safety for the complete power system.
Smart Grid Ready Instrumentation
NI offers technology that lets you push decision making and intelligence closer to the grid, embedded within flexible instrumentation to achieve faster response times, better bandwidth utilization, and functionality field upgrades.
Why choose NI for PMUs and Wide Area Monitoring
PMUs built on NI technology have four key features that can help utilities, power systems engineers, and grid researchers better understand the health of the grid.
Products and Solutions
The NI Partner Network is a global community of domain, application, and overall test development experts working closely with NI to meet the needs of the engineering community. NI Partners are trusted solution providers, systems integrators, consultants, product developers, and services and sales channel experts skilled across a wide range of industries and application areas.