'Mission control' for energy management
EnerNOC's Network Operations Center (NOC) connects energy supply and demand and makes demand response and technology-enabled energy efficiency seamless and reliable. Terabytes of data flow into the NOC every year, giving EnerNOC the ability to dispatch demand response capacity where and when it is needed.
Similar to a utility control center, the NOC is staffed 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year, and provides unparalleled visibility into each asset in EnerNOC’s network. It also connects energy users to their real-time energy data, leveraging advanced demand management software and secure metering and controls hardware and communications infrastructure.
Inside the NOC
Check out this behind-the-scenes slideshow of our Network Operations Center.
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During a demand response dispatch, the NOC monitors program performance at each site via real-time data feeds and makes event performance data available to client-approved staff through a secure, cloud-based software application.
Key NOC features include:
- Robust backbone: supports a global network of tens of thousands of customer sites
- Redundant data centers in multiple locations: ensures business continuity and ability for local support teams to serve customers throughout the world
- Real-time visibility into dispatches: provides clients and their customers a real-time view of performance on a site-by-site basis
- Dispatch management and energy profiling tools with patented business processes: ensures EnerNOC consistently delivers the demand response capacity contracted to our utility partners
- Local customer support teams: provides support for our enterprise customers, utility clients, and their customers worldwide
- 24/7/365 customer service desk: manages tens of thousands of calls every year with average response time of three seconds
EnerNOC is firmly committed to rigorous security standards, and we utilize the latest technologies and protocols and operational best practices.
Schedule and manage your demand response dispatches
As a utility working with EnerNOC, you can easily schedule and manage demand response dispatches with our software, leveraging our NOC as an extension of your control room. During a dispatch, our NOC personnel monitor participating customer sites for the duration of the dispatch and restore customer operations to normal when the dispatch ends.
For clients that partner with EnerNOC for a guaranteed capacity solution, our platform dynamically sorts individual customer sites by their performance—enabling our NOC operators to quickly identify and contact any underperforming sites in the demand response portfolio to ensure reliable resource delivery. For clients preferring to manage their programs in-house, our software-as-a-service (SaaS)-based solution provides tools to initiate, monitor, and conclude dispatches and to determine resource availability.
The NoC integration allows to interconnect (multiple) CPU, GPU, DSP, on chip memories, off chip DRAM through the DDRn memory controller, and the various functions from video accelerator to audio processor and from SuperSpeed USB to MIPI DSI or HDMI. If NoC functionality would only be to interconnect all these pieces, it would already be useful, when you consider that, in 2012, an Application Processor SoC integrates about one hundred IP, like for example with OMAP5 from TI! The NoC real power is to create an autonomous communication Network within the chip, has we have explained here.
New NOC Tech.
Written By Malik Zakaria
Every organization aims at capturing and gaining access to new markets, products and customers. However, a greater challenge than capturing new markets is that of sustaining value over the long-term. One of the key aspects that helps organizations remain at the forefront is its vision and capability of adopting new technologies.
Keeping up with these changes often means carrying out complex integration of new technology that can consume valuable time and resources. Another major challenge that comes with integration is the management of the existing network. It involves high volume of activities and is typically handled by the IT Manager.
The IT Manager has to simultaneously manage the network and the integration of new technology, which may be extremely complex for sizeable transactions. See how Managed NOC can support this transition…
5 Technology Integrations you cannot ignore
Whenever a business thinks of expansion into new markets, innovation or to keep up with the technology changes, it has to adopt to new technology. Can your network and its operations remain isolated during such an integration? Of course, not. Your network will experience the highest volume of activity during such an integration and the complexity is increased by the fact that your organization’s key functions depend on your network availability and stability.
As an IT Manager, you are well aware of the complex tasks of managing the network challenges, resources and time. In this blog, we will discuss how many organizations today have adopted the modern day NOC and how critical it is to solve the network challenges proactively while adopting new technologies so that you are guaranteed a100% service uptime with cost efficiency.
Managed NOC: Managed NOC is offered as a service by Managed Service Providers (MSPs). A Managed NOC service is designed to provide a seamless experience of managing your network operations during integration of new technology. All server and service monitoring is carried out through an MSP’s Network Operations Center (NOC) and their remote monitoring and management tools ensure that your services are not interrupted during the transition to the new technology.
Let’s look at how Managed NOC can help you keep up with the challenges that a network faces during integration of new technology in your organization.
Full article > http://blog.externetworks.com/blog/adopting-new-technologies-keep-an-eye-on-your-network-with-managed-noc
And that's a wrap.
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