LonMark Teams with DOE on Interoperability and the Smart Grid
The association will advise on the buildings and smart city market
SANTA CLARA, Calif. — LonMark® International, an association for the certification, education, and promotion of interoperability standards for control networking, announced it has joined as a partner in the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Grid Modernization Initiative Foundational Project 3: Interoperability. The Grid Modernization Initiative (GMI) is a DOE-wide collaboration that focuses on the development of new architectural concepts, tools, and technologies that measure, analyze, predict, protect, and control the grid of the future. As part of LonMark’s involvement, CEO and executive director, Ron Bernstein, will advise on the buildings and smart city market for the multi-year plan designed by the DOE’s Grid Modernization Laboratory Consortium (GMLC).
According to the DOE, energy infrastructure needs to be flexible enough to accommodate change in response to new, expected, or unexpected internal or external system drivers. This flexibility must be cost effective and include interoperability between a wide variety of devices and systems, both in and outside of the energy sector.