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Microsoft Launches SERA, Smart Grid Software Architecture

October 15, 2009
Source: Clean Edge News

Continuing its foray into the business of the smart grid, Microsoft has announced its latest product, the Microsoft Smart Energy Reference Architecture (SERA).

Microsoft describes SERA as the company's first comprehensive reference architecture that addresses technology integration throughout the full scope of the smart energy ecosystem. SERA is designed to help utilities by providing a method of testing the alignment of information technology with their business processes to create an integrated utility.

This is the second utility offering to be released from Microsoft in four months, following the announcement of Microsoft Hohm, an online application developed to enhance the experience of utilities' customers and provide further insight into the supply and demand of residential energy use.

According to the company, SERA will help thousands of smart devices seamlessly plug into the grid thanks to common standards and interoperability frameworks, just as the plug-and-play model allows thousands of devices to seamlessly plug into PCs today.

"The Microsoft Smart Energy Reference Architecture represents our continuing commitment to our utility industry customers and our holistic vision of how the smart grid fits into the much larger energy ecosystem that’s evolving daily," said Larry Cochrane, Worldwide Utilities Industry technology strategist/architect, Microsoft.