Amperion – Making The Grid Smarter
Amperion is a technology leader selling innovative broadband powerline communications products to electric utilities. Amperion's advanced Transmission and Distribution (T&D) communications solutions are targeted for the utility looking to build a private, secure, and highly reliable communications infrastructure to support line protection, SCADA expansion, grid reliability, substation automation, security video surveillance and many other grid monitoring and control applications.
Amperion is an established supplier and technical innovator in B-PLC (Broadband Power Line Carrier) technology with over 100 patents granted and pending in its 10 year history. Unique to Amperion is its ability to provide communications over distribution and transmission lines, scaling from 110V low voltage distribution all the way up to 138KV high voltage transmission lines.
Reliability and availability is crucial to any smart grid communications infrastructure solution and Amperion's T&D products were specifically designed to meet NERC-CIP cyber security requirements.