Hexagon Safety & Infrastructure

Laura Beth: Thank you for joining us for an Intergraph SG&I podcast. In today’s podcast we are speaking with Paul Lau. He is the Power Supply and Grid Operations Assistant General Manager at the Sacramento Municipal Utility District also known as SMUD. Paul is here to talk to us about creating a smarter control room for a smarter grid. Paul, first off I just wanted to thank you for taking the time to join us.   Paul: No problem, my pleasure.   Laura Beth: Paul, what do you consider to be a smarter control room?   Paul: I think really if you look at most control rooms in America, It really hasn’t changed probably in the 32 years that I’ve been there it really hasn’t changed. You’ve still got the big wall map and so you have a lot of pins coming off the wall and you really don’t have a lot of visibility actually looking into your distribution systems. How do we actually take our distribution control centers and take it into the 21st century?   L