The connected grid
Build a more reliable and connected grid
Creating a more connected grid
As the fundamental structure of the power grid evolves from unidirectional, centralized distribution to a hybrid of multidirectional and varied sources, the ability to monitor and predict all parts of its behavior is a prerequisite. Employing the right connectivity technologies allows systems to generate insights and handle the amount of data coming from additional grid ecosystems such as electric vehicle charging and energy storage. These insights help make the grid more efficient, sustainable and reliable, so you can focus on improving infrastructure stability and scalability.
Connectivity benefits for the grid
Scalable communication
Enable real-time data transfer to the connected grid with a wide-variety of industry protocols including RS-485, Controller Area Network, Ethernet, Bluetooth® and Wi-Fi®.
Comprehensive features
Choose the right features for your application, whether you're deciding between wired or wireless, high bandwidth or signaling, short or long range, or any other options for your design.
Secure and reliable
Integrate connectivity to help improve infrastructure stability and scalability. Process data with our reliable, affordable portfolio, with secure updates and communication.
Interoperable
Simplify your design with devices tested to meet a wide variety of protocols that are also certified by standards bodies. Our portfolios feature readily available software and hardware.
What’s new in connected grid infrastructures
The connected grid is seeing new trends emerge across many areas – particularly additional integration. For example, the integration of more e-meter data into the grid requires more connectivity. Our experts discuss these trends.
Find products
Wired products
Wired technologies enable higher-speed networks and supply real-time data to connected grids, with low and deterministic latency and accurate synchronization.
Wireless products
Wireless connectivity features a scalable and feature-rich portfolio for electric vehicle charging infrastructures and more.
Processors
Embedded processing products are designed for edge computing, with real-time capabilities and low-power operation.
As rising demands are pushing electric grids to their limits, vehicle-to-grid (V2G) bidirectional charging can help smooth out peak capacity.
Technical resources
Optimizing Design of Electronic Meters with Logic and Translation Use Cases
Connect: Wi-Fi in grid infrastructure
Top 3 design considerations for EV charging
Featured reference designs for grid connectivity
Eight-port IO-Link master reference design
Copper-to-fiber 100BASE-FX or 1000BASE-X media converter reference design for grid applications
This reference design details a methodology to use the DP83849 evaluation board to implement a 10/100BASE-TX to 10/100BASE-FX media converter, which enables copper based legacy equipment to be easily connected to a fiber network. Copper based Ethernet (10/100BASE-TX) has been widely used in grid (...)
Sub-1GHz Wireless Long Range Reference Design with CC1120 (868 to 915 MHz)
Narrowband is an industry standard way to get long range RF communication with higher immunity to interference versus wide band solutions. Use this reference design to test out the longest range solution from TI for your Internet of Things (IoT) applications. The tool for 868 to 915 MHz uses (...)
ETSI Cat. 1 Receiver-Capable wM-Bus 169MHz RF Subsystem for Smart Gas and Water Meters
This reference design is a very low-power, ETSI Cat. 1 receiver capable RF subsystem for wM-Bus enabled smart gas and water meters at 169 MHz. It provides market-leading blocking, selectivity, and RX sensitivity numbers for all wM-Bus N-modes as per EN13757-4:2013 and their respective variants, (...)
Smart, connected EV charging station development platform based on AM625 with HMI
The electric vehicle service equipment (EVSE) development platform based on AM625 is a collection of hardware, software and documentation that allows engineers to start designing a smart, connected EV charging station with human machine interface (HMI). The analog front-end hardware is designed to (...)