She received two IBM CEO Outstanding Technical Achievements awards and holds a patent on grid applications.

The use of semantic web and other knowledge technologies in grid applications is sometimes described as the knowledge grid.

Because smart grid applications generally assume access by third parties to the same physical networks and underlying IP infrastructure of the grid, much work has been done to add Secure Authentication features to the DNP3 protocol.

Ambient designs and develops hardware and software that creates a digital communication network to provide utilities with real-time insights into operations on the distribution grid while enabling the measurement, monitoring and management of multiple smart grid applications in parallel.

The platform enables the integration of various smart grid applications, such as smart metering, demand response, distribution automation, distributed generation and electric vehicles into a common infrastructure.

In spite of the large cyclic efficiency loss in simple schemes, compressed air storage has still been applied in electrical grid applications, where low-cost off-peak baseload energy can be stored for later release during peaks.

One advantage of a smart grid application is time-based pricing.

Sensorweb Research Laboratory - A research lab at Georgia State University, developing sensor web systems and applying them to scientific and social applications, such as environment monitoring, smart environments, and smart grid applications.

GridSense makes hardware for monitoring transformer performance for smart grid applications.

Gigle Networks (formerly known as Gigle Semiconductor) was a provider of high performance system-on-a-chip semiconductor devices and intelligent switching technology for home network, IPTV, consumer electronics and smart grid applications.