Intel to focus on energy industry

Intel is planning to engage with product companies and design houses in the industrial sphere with prime focus on energy industry vertical. Energy management is one of the very relevant applications for the Indian market to reduce power consumption. S Natarajan, country business manager, embedded markets, Intel South Asia said, "Intel's latest generation embedded Atom platform addresses requirements for this application and related machine to machine (M2M) technology. We are working with our ecosystem partners to come out with more products and solutions in this area."

M2M technology enables devices to communicate among them with the back-end systems using wired or wireless connectivity. It is a horizontal technology which applies to many verticals including energy. Here it applies to the supply/demand aspect as well as others such as alternative energy. Within supply demand, it is used in multiple areas such as power generation, transmission, distribution, power quality and energy management. Altogether it can monitor power consumption of a device. Natrajan further added, "We see its adaptation in government and private sector power projects for generation, transmission, distribution, power quality and within enterprise, SOHO/SMB and consumers for energy management."

As per the latest reports, Intel and Infosys are working together to build a digital smarthome gateway; with KLG Systel to develop street lights that turn on and off automatically; and with Wysine to develop energy-saving products for the textile industry.

"We have partnered with product/solution companies such as Wysine, KLG Systel and also design service companies like Infosys to support them for developing solutions on embedded Intel architecture and also collaborated with them in their go-to-market efforts," Natarajan concluded.