OUR SERVICES
PRE-CONFORMANCE / PRE-CERTIFICATION TESTING
- Perform ‘pre-conformance’ and ‘pre-certification’ testing/evaluation (including review of firmware/apps) and recommendations for improvements
- Interoperability testing for vendors and utilities between all products
- Evaluation services to utilities for RFPs
- UCAIug testing guidelines
COMMUNICATIONS
- Evaluations/assessments
- HAN interoperability testing
- 61850/DNP testing
- Wireless and low voltage PLC testing
- Specialized testing
- Generalized communication/interoperability evaluation/testing
- Testing on all equipment for distribution & mobile workforces issues
SECURITY
- Audits
- Penetration testing
- Vulnerability assessments
- Security interoperability / LEMNOS
- Low-level / Hardware security impact assessment
METERING
- AMI Functional Testing
- AMI Acceptance Testing
- AMI Test Practice Design
- AEIC and C12 Metering Guidance
OTHER LABORATORY AND TESTING CAPABILITIES
- Develop in-house high-level testing capability
- Client implementation support
- Provide education/training to vendors/utilities/regulators
- Provide ‘public service’ education/training
- Perform webinars/training videos of key testing issues/
- FAQs/reference designs
- SGL can review actual source code and perform intrusive testing
DOMAINS WE SUPPORT
- EnerNex combines industry experts from information technology, cyber security, and power systems engineering to bring a greater level of understanding to the challenges encountered in the electric utility industry. These disciplines are customized and combined in order to present a balanced set of solutions that provides comprehensive insight into your organization’s security posture.
- EnerNex is continually discussing the vision of a smarter grid, and with Smart Grid Labs we can bring our expertise to physical testing. Our lab lets us test not only individual products, but the interaction between them, and whether they modernize the power system.
- EnerNex has been instrumental in developing an industry consensus on the use cases, business cases and communications standards for deploying Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI). In Smart Grid Labs, we can compare the capabilities of metering system products and services to the industry visions expressed by the many utilities we have helped to develop AMI requirements.
- Smart Grid Labs offers a compact Consumer Domain experience test environment to utilities, vendors, and government entities. We offer a variety of services through our innovative facilities, distributed utility partners, and vendor partner relationships.
- EnerNex has long been known for our expertise in utility communications applications. EnerNex consultants are contributors to the standards and specification bodies for many of the key Smart Grid Lab communications protocols.
- Many existing systems used to control the grid via measurements and commands, leverage single-purpose software, hardware and communications. The utility industry is moving away from such purpose-built systems to those that provide value to a broader set of stakeholders both internally and externally.
