In several of our recent blogs on the adoption of electric vehicles and the deployment of related charging networks, we have highlighted how important communications and cybersecurity are for these installations. Not only do experts consider these aspects crucial, but the EU is already issuing mandatory regulations on the matter. The new Alternative Fuels Infrastructure Regulation, AFIR, entered...
Ivan Garcia Lopez
The benefits of smart metering for energy consumers and suppliers
Businesses of all sizes are under steady pressure to reduce their power consumption – not just to mitigate rising energy costs, but also to meet green legislation requirements. Besides, stakeholders like investors, employees and customers increasingly judge a company by its ‘greenness’ as well as its profitability. However, gas and electricity meters can help business owners to meet these...
Electric Vehicle Charging Networks: the weak link in the chain
A phrase that is commonly repeated in the realm of systems, processes, and equipment management is “a chain is only as strong as its weakest link”. This couldn’t be more true when it comes to deploying an electric vehicle charging network. Charging point operators (CPOs), responsible for managing charging stations, often bear the brunt of the significance of this phrase within their own chain....
5G Challenges in Smart Grid Electrical Distribution Networks
The world and Europe are currently experiencing a context of climate emergency, energy scarcity and electrification of energy consumption. In this environment, electricity distribution networks face a challenge of continuous improvement with a focus on more efficient management of energy demand, generation, and distribution through increasingly complex power grids. The idea of the “Smart Grid”...
OT cybersecurity in critical infrastructures
Now that mass and social media are booming, it is normal for marketing to take over and for technological terms to become more trivialized and popular. We are all familiar with cloud computing, now linked to edge computing, blockchain, the metaverse, AI, etc. However, the concept that has taken this year by storm is cybersecurity, and it would be unwise not to analyze it in depth. ...
The importance of maintaining high air quality
The advent of COVID-19 has made us all keenly aware of the critical role of high air quality, with good ventilation to mitigate the risk of infection. Yet the need to avoid this risk was recognized well before the pandemic arose, and will remain just as important even after it eventually recedes. Continuous ventilation control will always be one of any building’s Facilities Management tasks. In...
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