March 1, 2011 — Green Hills Software introduced Platform for Smart Energy. The platform provides a robust and expandable end-to-end solution for intelligent electronic device development and deployment; including optimized software development tools, hardware trace probes, and industry-proven real-time operating system technology. Uniquely, this platform addresses a wide range of applications and provides a scalable solution for the development of absolutely secure and reliable intelligent electronic devices.
The Platform for Smart Energy expedites development and helps assure the resiliency, reliability, and security of devices ranging from small footprint, low-power applications in smart appliances and smart grid meters to Neighborhood Area Network (NAN) concentrators and special purpose transmission and distribution controllers, to high-end enterprise utility applications such as supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems. The Platform for Smart Energy provides a comprehensive set of technologies that developers of smart energy applications can leverage to construct intelligent self-healing systems for the Smart Grid, providing high data integrity, consistent availability, and proper levels of confidentiality. The Green Hills Platform for Smart Energy includes:
- INTEGRITY separation kernel
- µ-velOSity microkernel
- MULTI integrated development environment
- FFS, FAT, NFS, and Journaling File Systems
- GHNet dual model IPv4/IPv6 networking stack
- Complete Wi-Fi support
- IPSec
- Graphics – 2D/3D
Green Hills will continue to innovate and advance the Platform for Smart Energy to address the ever-changing demands on the grid such as alternate energy, technology availability, and threats to smart grid security. Green Hills continues to work with its partners such as AppliedMicro, ARM, Freescale, Intel, and Texas Instruments to deliver a comprehensive smart energy platform for its clients.