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Tantalus Completes Alpha Testing of TRUSense(TM) Gateway
Next-generation offering gives utilities new levels of reliability and resilience with data visib...
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[{"type":"text","content":"Tantalus Completes Alpha Testing of TRUSense(TM) GatewayNext-generation offering gives utilities new levels of reliability and resilience with data visibility behind the meterBurnaby, British Columbia--(Newsfile Corp. - March 7, 2023) - Smart grid technology leader Tantalus Systems (TSX: GRID) (\"Tantalus\" or the \"Company\") today announced the successful completion of alpha testing for the Company's new TRUSense Gateway, a next-generation offering that accelerates the benefits of distributed intelligence by accessing and analyzing data from behind the meter to improve resiliency and reliability and enables utilities to solve the broadband divide by leveraging fiber deployments. Leveraging the capabilities of the technology acquired in our purchase of Congruitive last year, Tantalus developed the TRUSense Gateway to serve as a multi-purpose socket-based device that delivers secure and interoperable integration of behind-the-meter distributed energy resources (\"DERs\") onto the distribution system. Coupled with the high-resolution measurement of power delivery, transient power events and local conditions such as sags, swells, outages and phase information, utilities will be able to pinpoint vulnerable distribution equipment such as transformers, understand the true impact of electric vehicles (\"EVs\") and other DERs on the distribution grid, build robust demand-side flexibility programs and mitigate the frequency and duration of power outages. In conjunction with expanding cybersecurity requirements, the TRUSense Gateway is a highly secure platform leveraging cutting edge VPN technologies, secure boot, encryption of all data at rest, security-enhanced Linux and multiple firewalls that segregates data from behind-the-meter devices from utility operational data.This solution comes at a time when many utilities report that they are massively under-prepared to deal with the accelerating adoption of EVs, rooftop solar and other devices. Tantalus' inaugural Utility of the Future study, released last month, revealed that 69% of North American utilities surveyed reported being only a little or not at all prepared for the impact of EVs on their distribution grids. That same study showed that modernizing and digitizing the distribution grid-which includes access to interoperable data from behind the meter-was a high priority for 50% of...