Power utilities
Empowered for the new energy future
Realize your smart grid vision. Optimize power distribution. Adapt to changing energy demands. Support new business models. Achieve your critical objectives with our solutions for power utilities.
Growing microgeneration, storage and energy conservation mean the power sector is facing lower demand and flatter revenues. As a power utility, you have three main options for addressing these trends:
- Remain a transmission or distribution system operator and automate, improve operational efficiency and optimize asset lifecycles
- Expand your portfolio by entering the renewables market
- Use your assets to offer smart city services, plus 5G small cell backhaul and broadband services
Nokia can help you succeed with your chosen path. Our solutions make your grid smarter, more reliable and more responsive to new demands. They enable you to realize benefits of Industry 4.0 with digitalization and automation to operate more efficiently, reduce costs and get the most from your assets. And they help you evolve your business to seize new opportunities.
"Nokia ranked as leader in industrial IoT Networking Solutions"
Guidehouse Insights Leaderboard Grid - Industrial IoT Networking Solutions Vendors (2Q 2021)
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Converged mission-critical private wireless and IP/MPLS FAN
Extend connectivity to grid edge for DA, renewables and innovation, plus broadband for field force enablement
Mission-critical WAN
Build a converged network with IP/MPLS, WDM and packet microwave that supports all your critical applications
Utility broadband with FTTx
Improve power delivery and extend gigabit broadband services to your underserved areas
Data Center Fabric solution
Make data center switching and cloud environments easier to scale, adapt and operate
Discover the powerful opportunities in the new energy market
Nokia Converged Field Area Network (FAN)
See why a new approach is needed for your smart grid
Nokia Bell Labs Industry 4.0 architecture for power utilities
The Industry 4.0 architecture harnesses technologies such as Industrial Internet of Things, edge computing, cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, augmented and virtual reality, and high-performance networking — including 4G/5G — to drive dramatic productivity improvements and uncompromising safety with digitalization and automation.
With the Industry 4.0 architecture for power utilities, you can build an agile and efficient grid communications that’s ready for growing distributed energy resources, any new demand, opportunity or challenge, and a cost-effective managed transformation to net zero emissions.
- Connect smart sensors, devices and mobile workers with the highest reliability and security
- Get the performance and ultra-low latencies you need for automated wide area protection systems
- Increase network capacity where it’s needed for new applications while delivering required deterministic performance for legacy systems such as teleprotection
- Create value by applying analytics, sensor and device management, digital operations and machine-learning to any smart grid application
- For some utilities, it will also offer a broadband communications platform for new services and a transition to new business models
Discover our solutions for power utilities
- IMPACT IoT platform
Unlock competitive growth with new services and applications for the Internet of Things
- Scene analytics
Optimize site surveillance, security and maintenance with real-time video analytics that detect problems and anomalous activities
Bell Labs Consulting Services and Nokia Global Services can help you realize your Industry 4.0 architecture, with increased productivity and new business models.
Our Industry 4.0 architecture in action
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