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Data and the smart grid set to advance the American electrical market

Greentech Media // Aug 15, 2012

Data collection in the smart grid collects up to 6.2 billion points of data per day-- up to 60 gigabytes. This quantity of data represents a major game changer in the electrical market. Greentech Media reports:

"If you have measurement units in place, they would have given [grid operators] plenty of time to respond [to a catastrophic blackout] in an effective way,” Bert Taube, Versant’s director of business development, said in an interview last week.