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.