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Nokia Advances Digital Resilience Against Extreme Weather

2026-10-01T17:01:00+02:00

When severe weather disrupts communities, digital connectivity can become an essential lifeline. Communication networks support emergency response, keep critical services operating and help communities remain connected when physical infrastructure is under pressure. Their value can easily go unnoticed during normal conditions, but becomes immediately apparent when connectivity is interrupted.

This year's World Telecommunication and Information Society Day theme, “Digital lifelines – Strengthening resilience in a connected world,” highlights the growing importance of resilient digital infrastructure. Climate change is no longer simply an environmental issue. Increasingly, it represents a direct operational challenge for organizations and societies that depend on interconnected physical and digital systems.

Extreme Weather Is Increasing Pressure on Infrastructure

Climate change is increasingly being experienced through severe storms, flooding, extreme heat and wildfires. These events can place significant and immediate pressure on power systems, communications networks and other essential infrastructure.

Nokia and CGI are conducting a joint assessment examining how extreme weather could affect connectivity infrastructure in the United States and India. The study draws on several sources of information, including World Bank projections, EM-DAT disaster records and primary survey data.

Early findings indicate that extreme weather events are not only becoming more intense but are also occurring in more concentrated and extended patterns. This can create multiple, overlapping pressures on infrastructure rather than producing isolated disruptions.

In the United States, the research identifies an upward trend in severe storm activity. Peak years have recorded as many as 23 major storm events, accompanied by increasingly intense and concentrated rainfall.

In India, the assessment points to growing flood exposure associated with heavier rainfall. The number of days receiving more than 50 mm of rain is projected to increase substantially over the longer term, potentially reaching up to seven times the levels seen in shorter-term baseline periods. At the same time, pre-monsoon temperatures are becoming more persistent and intense.

Higher-emission scenarios amplify these risks in both countries. The findings suggest that extreme weather is increasingly capable of placing sustained, systemic pressure on critical infrastructure rather than causing occasional, isolated interruptions.

Climate adaptation is therefore an ongoing process, while climate resilience represents the desired outcome: infrastructure and services that can anticipate disruption, withstand shocks, recover efficiently and adapt to changing conditions. Technology has an important role in enabling that resilience.

Nokia's Approach to Climate Resilience

Nokia views resilience as the ability of critical systems — including connectivity, energy and public services — to remain operational during periods of severe environmental stress. These systems must also be considered as interconnected networks rather than as individual components operating independently.

The company's approach centers on three areas:

Direct control: Improving the resilience of Nokia's own operations and technologies.
Shared control: Helping customers strengthen the reliability and resilience of their networks and services.
Indirect influence: Working with ecosystem partners to support resilience at the wider community and societal level.

Artificial intelligence is an important enabler across each of these areas. AI can help systems identify potential disruptions, respond dynamically to changing conditions and accelerate recovery. Resilience must also be developed responsibly, with energy efficiency, circularity and careful resource management remaining important considerations so that sustainability and resilience progress together.

Technology for More Resilient Digital Lifelines

The Nokia–CGI assessment identifies several ways extreme weather can affect communications infrastructure.

Higher temperatures and environmental conditions can reduce the performance of communications equipment, while storms and flooding can physically damage network assets. Dependence on electrical grids can also cause a localized infrastructure problem to spread across wider areas. Meanwhile, dangerous conditions and limited physical access can make repairs and recovery more difficult.

Nokia's role includes providing technologies that help customers prepare for, withstand and recover from these disruptions. These capabilities can support business continuity, reduce operational risks and protect long-term economic value. They include:

Next-generation mobile networks with satellite-integrated connectivity: Satellite capabilities can supplement terrestrial networks, helping maintain communications during disasters while extending coverage to remote and difficult-to-reach locations.
High-capacity fiber networks: Fiber infrastructure provides stable, low-latency and energy-efficient data connectivity across large geographic areas.
AI-driven network operations and predictive hardware maintenance: These capabilities can identify potential equipment problems and reduce the need for personnel to visit sites during dangerous conditions.
Resilient distributed cloud architectures: Dynamic traffic management and workload distribution across multiple regions can help maintain digital services during disruptions, including incidents affecting data centers.
Automated LTE/5G-connected drone platforms: Drones can provide real-time situational awareness, inspect infrastructure, assess damage and support emergency response for utilities, transportation networks, public safety organizations and industrial operations.
Environmental monitoring through fiber and situational-awareness technologies: Existing fiber infrastructure and sensing technologies can provide information that supports faster decisions and more effective responses during emergencies.
Mission-critical and private wireless networks: These networks provide secure and highly reliable communications for public safety organizations, utilities and other critical industries.

Keeping Communities Connected During Crises

Ultimately, resilience is about more than keeping infrastructure operational. It is about protecting people and helping communities function during periods of uncertainty.

When communications networks remain available, emergency calls can be completed, hospitals can stay connected, families can communicate and authorities can coordinate response and recovery efforts. Reliable connectivity can therefore have effects that extend well beyond the technology itself, supporting social stability when communities face major disruptions.

Building this level of resilience requires cooperation. No single organization can address the challenge alone. Operators, governments, humanitarian organizations and technology partners must work together to develop and deploy solutions that can strengthen connectivity and reach the communities and locations that need them most.

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Nokia Advances Resilient Connectivity for Extreme Weather

2026-09-28T12:08:00+02:00

As climate change continues to influence weather patterns, communities are facing extreme events such as hurricanes, droughts, floods, and severe storms with increasing frequency and intensity. When disasters occur, disruptions to electricity, communications, transportation, healthcare, and emergency services can magnify the damage and make recovery more difficult. Ensuring that these critical systems remain operational during emergencies is therefore becoming an increasingly important priority.

Climate projections indicate that many extreme weather events are likely to become more intense in the coming decades. This makes advance planning essential for governments, emergency organizations, infrastructure operators, and other decision-makers seeking to reduce the impact of weather-related disruptions on services that communities depend on.

As a provider of connectivity infrastructure, Nokia operates across many of these essential sectors, including energy, transportation, healthcare, telecommunications, and emergency response. Reliable communications provide the foundation that enables these different systems to exchange information and coordinate their activities when a crisis occurs.

Connectivity as the foundation of resilient communities

A resilient community depends on several interconnected elements working effectively together:

Weather intelligence to identify developing threats and provide timely warnings.
Critical infrastructure, including telecommunications and utilities, to keep essential services operating.
Coordinated emergency response involving public safety organizations, healthcare institutions, and local authorities.
Community recovery networks, supported by governments, NGOs, schools, shelters, and other organizations.

These components are closely linked, meaning that the failure of one can trigger problems elsewhere. For instance, an extended electricity outage can interrupt wastewater treatment and drainage systems, potentially increasing flood-related risks. Similarly, a communications failure can prevent residents from receiving warnings and make it harder for first responders to coordinate their activities.

Past disasters in the United States illustrate the consequences of such interconnected failures. Hurricane Sandy in 2012 resulted in widespread power outages across 18 states and disrupted wastewater infrastructure, contributing to additional flooding and public-health concerns. During Hurricane Helene in 2024, responders in Tennessee used an alternative statewide radio system to coordinate a helicopter rescue after conventional radio communications became unavailable.

The growing dependence on communications infrastructure is placing greater expectations on telecommunications companies to maintain connectivity during emergencies. Five major factors are contributing to this shift:

Financial exposure and risk
Increasing regulatory and government expectations
Community responsibility and social-impact commitments
Opportunities to strengthen the wider infrastructure ecosystem
Brand reputation and competitive considerations

Recent incidents have demonstrated the consequences of inadequate network resilience. The 2025 electricity blackout across the Iberian Peninsula, for example, affected more than 50 million people in Spain and Portugal, with some areas experiencing outages lasting as long as 16 hours. The failure disrupted numerous critical services at a time when communications were particularly important. Telecommunications networks were also heavily affected, with internet traffic reportedly falling by approximately 90% in Portugal and 80% in Spain. In some areas, mobile connectivity was lost after backup power systems were exhausted.

The blackout also generated criticism of telecommunications operators over preparedness and dependence on conventional electricity supplies. Subsequent severe weather events further highlighted the vulnerability of infrastructure across the region.

Storm Claudia caused flooding and electricity disruptions in parts of Portugal and Spain, while Storm Kristin subsequently caused widespread damage in Portugal, leaving more than one million people without electricity and bringing down thousands of telecommunications and electricity poles. In response to these vulnerabilities, Spain announced plans requiring telecommunications providers to maintain a minimum of four hours of mobile service during power outages. Portugal's telecommunications regulator has also recommended additional requirements aimed at increasing network autonomy.

The challenge extends well beyond Europe. Telecommunications infrastructure in remote parts of North America has also been exposed to extreme weather risks. Canada's 2024 wildfires, for example, highlighted connectivity limitations affecting rural and remote communities.

Research conducted by Nokia in collaboration with CGI, examining disasters recorded between 2015 and 2025, found that among U.S. states with a Nokia presence, Texas recorded 87 disasters during that period, followed by Missouri with 61 and Oklahoma with 58. The frequency and combination of these events reinforce the need for telecommunications providers to prepare for disruption before disasters occur rather than relying solely on recovery measures afterward.

Building resilience into connectivity systems

Future connectivity infrastructure will need resilience to be considered from the earliest stages of planning. This means incorporating resilience into network design, deployment, day-to-day operations, maintenance, and restoration strategies.

For telecommunications companies, stronger network resilience can reduce exposure to future disruptions while helping ensure that electricity, healthcare, emergency response, transportation, and other essential services remain connected. Ultimately, strengthening communications infrastructure also contributes to the resilience of the communities that rely on it.

Nokia's approach to AI-enabled resilient connectivity

Nokia is working with telecommunications companies and other organizations responsible for mission-critical services to strengthen resilience across entire infrastructure ecosystems. Its approach extends beyond basic connectivity, incorporating network infrastructure, sensing and detection technologies, power continuity, edge computing, and other capabilities that can help essential organizations remain operational during emergencies.

Foundational connectivity: High-capacity fiber networks can provide dependable communications for critical services, while satellite-enabled Non-Terrestrial Network architectures can offer alternative connectivity when terrestrial infrastructure is damaged or unavailable.
Sensing and detection: Existing fiber-optic and 5G infrastructure can potentially be used as large-scale sensing platforms, providing real-time information that supports disaster monitoring and weather forecasting. Nokia's work with organizations including Skyfora, A1, and Telia Finland combines telecommunications infrastructure and GNSS capabilities to develop higher-resolution weather-sensing networks.
Power continuity: Telecommunications technology also plays an important role in the modernization of electricity networks. Nokia supports utilities and power-generation organizations in improving their communications infrastructure and operational capabilities. In New Zealand, for example, Nokia is supporting Transpower's upgrade of its central control network, with the objective of strengthening the resilience of the country's electricity infrastructure.
Edge resilience: Edge technologies can help maintain mission-critical communications during outages and cyber incidents. Nokia's Cognitive Operations platform and Cognitive Edge Node can enable emergency vehicles to operate as mobile communications hubs, supporting 5G, Wi-Fi, and satellite connectivity while allowing personnel to exchange real-time information from the field.

The role of artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence is becoming an important component of resilient infrastructure strategies. Within telecommunications networks and across interconnected infrastructure ecosystems, AI can support applications ranging from climate-risk analysis to automated network recovery and the prioritization of resources during emergencies.

Technologies such as Nokia's AI-RAN platform and MantaRay SON can help identify potential network problems and enable corrective action before service is significantly affected. AI-powered digital twins can also help communities and infrastructure operators model potential scenarios, locate vulnerabilities, evaluate risks, and implement improvements before an actual disaster occurs.

Collaboration across infrastructure ecosystems

Resilience cannot be achieved by telecommunications companies alone. Governments, utilities, emergency services, healthcare providers, technology companies, community organizations, and other infrastructure stakeholders all have roles to play in preparing for increasingly complex climate-related disruptions.

Nokia's participation in New York City Climate Week from September 20–24 is focused on discussions around resilience and collaboration across these interconnected ecosystems. The company is also participating in a CGI Climate Working Session on Digital Resilience, with further initiatives and actions expected to emerge from these discussions.

Nokia and Transpower Strengthen New Zealand’s Power Grid

2026-09-27T09:27:00+02:00

Terms such as “five-nines availability” and “low latency” are common when discussing networks that support critical infrastructure. Seeing the operations at the Haywards electrical substation, located at the northern end of New Zealand’s 350 kV High-Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) links, provided a much more concrete understanding of what those requirements mean in practice.

As an IP engineer based in Europe, I have spent my career working to improve the reliability of networks that cannot afford significant downtime. However, remotely supporting the local team at Transpower New Zealand offered a different perspective on the responsibility involved in protecting essential infrastructure.

A disruption to a retail broadband connection might be an inconvenience. A large-scale failure of a national electricity grid can have consequences across entire communities and the economy. As John Crisp, Communications Network Head at Transpower, describes it, when the grid goes down, “it’s all over, Red Rover.”

Why communications infrastructure is essential to the power grid

Transpower operates the transmission network that moves electricity across New Zealand, including hydroelectric power generated in the South Island and delivered to major population centers in the North Island. The effectiveness of that electricity network depends heavily on the communications infrastructure supporting its operation.

That communications system, known as TransGO, provides the connectivity and information flow required to operate the national grid. It effectively functions as the grid's communications nervous system.

Without TransGO, grid operators would have far less visibility into the condition of equipment, electricity generation and demand. This real-time awareness is becoming increasingly important as renewable generation, including wind and solar power, expands.

Unlike conventional generation, renewable sources can fluctuate depending on weather and other conditions. Operators therefore require timely and accurate information to maintain the balance between electricity supply and demand. The possibility of earthquakes, storms and other natural hazards further reinforces the need for resilient communications infrastructure.

Technologies such as IP/MPLS can help provide the network resilience, service separation and cybersecurity capabilities required to support these mission-critical operations.

Transpower as guardian of the national grid

During my work with Transpower, the team introduced me to the Māori concept of Kaitiaki, a term associated with guardianship and protection.

Transpower describes itself as the “Kaitiaki of the national grid,” reflecting the responsibility it carries for maintaining the country's electricity transmission infrastructure.

That responsibility extends well beyond physical assets such as transmission lines, substations and towers. It involves helping provide a dependable, affordable and sustainable electricity system for New Zealand's population of more than five million people.

This concept of guardianship also closely aligns with the approach taken by Nokia's mission-critical networking teams. For organizations such as Transpower, network performance is not simply a technical objective. Reliability is fundamental because disruptions to communications can affect the operation of critical infrastructure.

Working together to strengthen the grid

Nokia has been a long-standing technology partner of Transpower. Working alongside Spark New Zealand, Nokia is supporting the modernization of TransGO, helping prepare the communications network for the evolving requirements of New Zealand's electricity grid.

The partnership extends beyond supplying IP networking equipment. It involves understanding the operational requirements and complexities of Transpower's environment and developing solutions that support reliable grid management.

The objective is straightforward but critical: help keep electricity flowing while supporting the wider economy and New Zealand's increasingly digital infrastructure.

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Learn more about Transpower’s work

For a closer look at Transpower's operations and the role of its communications infrastructure, viewers can explore the customer success story and watch the video.

Together, these resources highlight the technology, expertise and people working behind the scenes to maintain a resilient and secure electricity transmission network. The story also illustrates how mission-critical communications can support the reliability of essential infrastructure and help keep New Zealand's grid operating.

AI-Powered Fiber Sensing for Smarter Network Resilience

2026-09-17T09:38:00+02:00

For decades, fiber-optic networks have primarily been viewed as high-performance infrastructure whose main purpose was to reliably transport data. As mission-critical organizations place greater emphasis on resilience, cybersecurity, and operational visibility, that role is changing. Fiber is increasingly becoming a source of real-time information about conditions around the network itself.

The move from conventional fiber monitoring to fiber sensing represents a significant shift in how optical networks can deliver value. Traditional monitoring generally informs operators after performance has deteriorated or a connection has failed. Fiber sensing goes further by continuously identifying activity and changes occurring along and near the fiber route, potentially providing warnings before communications are disrupted. When combined with artificial intelligence, these physical signals can be interpreted and transformed into timely, actionable information.

Why Fiber Sensing Matters for Utilities
The importance of this capability is particularly evident in mission-critical sectors such as electric utilities. In these environments, communications infrastructure is an integral part of the power grid rather than simply a system for supporting conventional business applications.

Reliability requirements are extremely high. Consumers expect electricity to remain available whenever they need it, which means utilities require communication networks capable of delivering both high availability and resilience. They also increasingly need technologies that can identify emerging problems rather than simply report outages after they occur.

Fiber sensing can contribute to this objective by turning existing optical infrastructure into an early-warning mechanism. Abnormal activity along a fiber route can potentially be identified before it develops into a communications failure or security incident. This makes optical-network modernization about more than capacity; it can also improve visibility, automation, and resilience.

What Fiber Sensing Can Detect
Traditional monitoring largely asks whether a network connection is operating correctly. Fiber sensing changes the question to: what is happening along the network corridor?

That distinction can have important operational consequences. For example, instead of discovering that a fiber cable was severed at 2:14 p.m., a sensing-enabled system could potentially identify unusual activity several minutes earlier that resembles construction or excavation approaching a protected right-of-way.

Such advance warning could give an operator time to contact workers at the location, halt potentially damaging activity, send security or law-enforcement personnel, or deploy a fiber maintenance team. Avoiding an outage is only part of the benefit. Earlier intervention can also reduce repair expenses, minimize operational disruption, and help critical infrastructure providers maintain the continuity their customers depend on.

Modernizing Utility Networks: Key Priorities
Utility network upgrades typically focus on several fundamental requirements: availability, predictable performance, automation, security, and compliance.

High availability is essential because communications failures can introduce risks to grid operations. Predictable network performance is equally important, although its significance may be less obvious. Equipment installed at substations and on utility poles can depend on precise timing and very low levels of jitter. A network may appear to be functioning normally while still operating outside the tolerances required by protection and control equipment.

Fiber sensing provides another layer of visibility by helping operators recognize developing problems before they reach a point where network performance or grid operations are affected.

Improving Operations Through Faster Root-Cause Analysis
Fiber sensing can also improve operational efficiency. Conventional fault investigations can require considerable time and resources. An alarm may result in technicians being sent to the field, where they must search for the underlying problem, sometimes only after service has already been interrupted.

Sensing adds valuable context by helping determine what happened, where it happened, and how the event is developing. More accurate location information can allow field teams to reach the problem faster and spend less time searching along extensive fiber routes.

For utilities operating with limited budgets and field resources, reducing unnecessary site visits and shortening troubleshooting time can provide meaningful operational benefits.

Fiber as a Distributed Security Sensor
The potential security applications of fiber sensing extend beyond accidental damage and environmental events. Critical infrastructure operators must also consider deliberate tampering, unauthorized access, and physical intrusion.

Fiber routes frequently pass through remote locations or connect directly to sensitive facilities. Sensing technology can potentially identify physical activity near the fiber, including events associated with doors opening, footsteps, excavation, or other acoustic and vibration signatures.

This changes the role of the communications network. Instead of functioning solely as a means of transmitting information, the fiber can also serve as a distributed sensing layer, providing continuous awareness along physical corridors that may otherwise be difficult or expensive to monitor with conventional security equipment.

From OTDR to Advanced Optical Signal Analysis
The technology behind fiber sensing has developed considerably. Earlier approaches typically monitored optical power at the endpoints of a transmission path and responded when significant changes occurred.

Optical time-domain reflectometers, or OTDRs, introduced a more detailed diagnostic capability. These instruments send pulses of light through the fiber and analyze the resulting backscatter, using a principle broadly comparable to radar. This allows operators to locate cable breaks and other forms of degradation with increasing accuracy, in some cases down to a few meters.

Modern fiber sensing builds on these capabilities by analyzing much smaller changes in optical backscatter and other characteristics of the transmitted signal. Information such as changes in optical phase and polarization can provide insight into physical events occurring along the fiber, including events that have not yet caused an interruption in service.

Coherent Optics and Digital Signal Processing
Two technological developments have helped make advanced sensing practical on a larger scale.

The first is the widespread adoption of coherent optical technology. Coherent receivers, which were once expensive and specialized, are now common components of modern optical networking systems. They can extract substantially more information from an optical signal than earlier technologies.

The second is the rapid advancement of digital signal processing (DSP). Modern DSP capabilities can analyze extremely small variations in the behavior of light traveling through optical fiber and relate those changes to physical activity in the surrounding environment.

Together, coherent optics and DSP improve the ability of fiber systems to detect phenomena such as vibration, seismic activity, and temperature changes.

AI Turns Sensing Data Into Actionable Intelligence
Detecting physical activity is only the beginning. The greater challenge is interpreting the enormous volume of information generated by sensitive sensing systems.

Fiber routes naturally experience continuous background activity. Vehicles, pedestrians, industrial equipment, scheduled maintenance, and other routine events can all generate vibrations or other signals. Treating every detected change as an alarm would quickly make the system impractical.

This is where AI becomes an important enabling technology. Artificial intelligence can help distinguish meaningful events from normal background activity, turning sophisticated sensing capabilities into information that operators can use to make operational decisions.

Establishing What “Normal” Looks Like
AI-based fiber sensing can learn the normal patterns associated with individual locations and environments. There is no single definition of normal activity across an entire network.

For example, a fiber running beside a busy road will naturally experience different vibration patterns from one passing through a remote rural area. Similarly, a location with planned maintenance during particular hours should be treated differently from a restricted facility where activity is unexpected outside authorized periods.

Machine-learning models can identify recurring patterns, reduce false alarms, and incorporate contextual information such as maintenance schedules, approved work orders, and regular environmental noise.

As these systems learn over time, they can become better at separating routine activity from potentially significant anomalies. Greater confidence in alerts is particularly important when detections may trigger automated processes or the deployment of security personnel.

Detecting Problems Before They Become Failures
AI can also support a more proactive approach to network management. Rather than waiting for a predefined threshold to be exceeded, analytical systems can identify patterns that may indicate an approaching failure or security event.

The practical benefit is additional response time. For mission-critical infrastructure, that extra time can affect more than operating costs—it can contribute to safety, service continuity, and overall resilience.

Adding Intelligence Without Sacrificing Network Capacity
Introducing sensing capabilities does not necessarily require a significant reduction in communications bandwidth. In many implementations, fiber sensing can make use of information already available from optical transceivers and receivers during normal network operation.

The additional requirements are generally associated with measurement, data processing, analytics, and software integration rather than consuming large amounts of transmission capacity.

This means sensing can potentially operate alongside regular communications traffic, allowing organizations to extract additional value from fiber infrastructure that is already carrying operational and business data.

Modern Optical Infrastructure Enables Advanced Sensing
Many of these capabilities are closely connected to the adoption of coherent optical detection, which is now common across modern optical networking platforms. Fully utilizing advanced sensing capabilities, however, may require up-to-date optical infrastructure.

Organizations operating equipment that is several decades old may not be able to access the full potential of modern sensing until their optical platforms are upgraded.

Nevertheless, optical modernization is already being driven by other requirements. Growing bandwidth consumption, expanding data centers, and increasing demand from AI computing are pushing organizations toward higher-capacity optical transport. When equipment is upgraded to improve throughput, latency, and flexibility, fiber sensing can potentially be incorporated as an additional capability at a comparatively modest incremental cost.

Getting More Value From Existing Fiber
The broader strategic opportunity is to increase the value delivered by existing fiber assets.
A single optical network can transport grid telemetry, protection traffic, and enterprise communications while also providing information that helps protect the physical fiber corridor, identify emerging threats, and improve field operations.

For utilities modernizing their networks to support renewable-energy integration and broader decarbonization objectives, protecting critical infrastructure and improving operational efficiency can support that wider transformation.

AI plays an important role by converting complex, location-specific optical signals into information that operators can understand and act upon.
Fiber Sensing as a Future Network Capability

The role of fiber sensing is likely to become increasingly important when organizations design and modernize mission-critical optical networks. Infrastructure intended to remain operational for a decade or longer may need to be evaluated on more than capacity, latency, and manageability. Resilience, physical security, and sensing capabilities can also become important considerations.

As sensing technology improves its sensitivity and ability to pinpoint events, and AI systems become more effective at filtering background noise and recognizing significant patterns, fiber sensing has the potential to move from a specialized capability toward a standard feature of modern optical networks.

The result is a fundamentally more capable communications infrastructure: a network that not only transports data but can also observe activity around the fiber route and provide operators with information that may help address emerging problems before they develop into major failures.

Landis+Gyr Expands Smart Grid Edge Ecosystem in Australia

2026-08-14T12:36:00+02:00

Landis+Gyr has expanded its Edge Application (App) Ecosystem in Australia by welcoming Future Grid and Operational Technology Solutions (OTS) as new partners. Their inclusion broadens Landis+Gyr’s open global ecosystem and introduces additional edge applications designed to improve real-time grid intelligence, operational efficiency and network reliability.

The Landis+Gyr Edge App Ecosystem provides utilities with an open and scalable environment that combines the flexibility of an app-based model with the ability to optimise grid operations at the edge in real time.

With the rapid growth of distributed energy resources (DERs), electricity networks are becoming increasingly complex. Utilities need greater visibility across their networks and access to timely intelligence to support faster operational decisions without compromising reliability.

Landis+Gyr addresses these demands through a common platform for edge intelligence. The platform allows utilities to expand their operational capabilities by integrating specialised applications and analytics from leading technology providers.

Within this secure, utility-grade environment, developers can deliver solutions for advanced analytics, operational optimisation and customer engagement. These applications support utilities in making more predictive, informed and data-driven decisions.

Applications developed through the Landis+Gyr Edge App Ecosystem can be deployed across utilities using the company’s Revelo® grid sensing platform. This approach enables utilities to adopt new technologies more rapidly while extending intelligent grid capabilities across their networks.

David Maclean, Senior Vice President, APAC at Landis+Gyr, said the initiative reflects a broader shift towards intelligent and collaborative energy management.

“Intelligent energy is about helping utilities extract greater value from their data while developing networks that are more resilient and prepared for the future. Innovation at the grid edge needs to be simple, scalable and capable of delivering measurable value.

“Our Edge App Ecosystem gives utilities the ability to adopt new applications quickly and gain access to AI-enabled insights. We are pleased to welcome Future Grid and OTS to our global ecosystem, expanding the range of solutions available to utilities and supporting real-time intelligence at the edge.”

New Partners Bring Advanced Grid Intelligence

Future Grid provides a SaaS-based platform for real-time management of low-voltage distribution networks. Its technology combines advanced grid intelligence with AI-supported analytics to process large volumes of network data and convert them into actionable risk and operational insights.

The platform is designed to support a broad range of utility activities, including regulatory compliance, field operations, network planning and control-room management.

Operational Technology Solutions (OTS) contributes expertise in data analytics, edge sensing and real-time technology. Its solutions help utilities process large volumes of information, automate the generation of operational insights and advance their digital transformation programmes.

By joining Landis+Gyr’s ecosystem, Future Grid and OTS become part of a growing network of application partners that also includes Sense, Mitsubishi Electric and other technology providers. Their solutions add to an expanding portfolio of applications that utilities can deploy and scale at the grid edge.

As the energy transition continues to reshape electricity networks, Landis+Gyr is strengthening its ecosystem through collaboration with utilities and technology partners to develop open, practical edge solutions that deliver tangible operational benefits.

Maclean added: “The future of energy will be shaped through collaboration, shared innovation and open platforms. By working together, we can help create a grid that is more intelligent, connected, resilient and ready to meet the demands of a changing energy landscape.”