Gridco Systems, a leader in agile grid infrastructure solutions, announced that the emPowerâ„¢ Solution family of secondary network, low-voltage (LV) regulating systems has added a hosted service offering leveraging Amazon Web Services, one of the world's most secure and scalable enterprise software hosting platforms.

This cloud-based solution component complements the company's options for utility-hosted versions of Gridco's Grid Management and Analytics Platformâ„¢ (GMAP) software, reflecting the trend of electric utilities adopting the cloud as an alternative for certain asset management use cases. Cloud-hosted GMAP provides remote management capabilities, configurable alarm and event management, data and analytics reporting, and the ability to push firmware updates over the air to add new capabilities to existing hardware systems.

"Our agile grid solutions offer distribution utilities a high degree of flexibility and scalability -two of the main reasons we elected to offer a hosting option with Amazon Web Services," said Vince Martinelli, Gridco Systems VP of Marketing and Product Management. "Our goal is to make distribution-level upgrades as "easy as wire," but in a more reliable and efficient way. AWS is an inherent part of that philosophy - enabling us to deploy and extend these fault-tolerant systems quickly, cost-effectively and without adding workload to utility IT teams."

The Gridco Systems Grid Management and Analytics Platformâ„¢ (GMAP) is an advanced suite of on-premise or hosted applications that provide remote monitoring, asset management, data collection, analysis, reporting, and feeder optimization. GMAP enables distribution system operators to enhance their situational awareness and optimize performance at the feeder and system levels by managing any mix of Gridco Systems products, and coordinating them with other distribution devices.

Designed from the ground-up to provide a comprehensive view of Gridco's In-line Power Regulatorsâ„¢ (IPRs), Power Regulating Transformersâ„¢ (PRTs), Static VAR Compensatorsâ„¢ (SVCs) and Distributed Grid Controllersâ„¢ (DGCs), GMAP seamlessly integrates with SCADA, DMS, VVO and other platforms, enhancing distribution system operations with real-time alerts, trending and actionable power system analytics. 

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