Engineering360: "Logistics Complicate Puerto Rico's Electric Grid Recovery"

We can not get rid of hurricanes, storms, tonados. But while talking about Smart Grid, to recover the Outages, to minimize the time to fix the problem, we need to know the conenctivity of the grid before and update the status after. Outage Management System without a trusted Network Data & connectivity info, can not help to much. Scada/RM/Sensors system must share lates info with GIS system & GIS system must share the latest status with SCADA etc. For 20 years we are working on smart infrastructure and smart grid. It is difficult yo build a system, moreover it is much difficult to maintain it, witout proper desing of system & workflow.

Because some simple steps are not considered, millions of $ lost, and millions of people needs assistance, needs electric, water etc.