Open Systems International, Inc. has announced the availability of its Cumulus cloud architecture serving SCADA, EMS, GMS, DMS and other smart grid solutions such as demand response, renewables management, volt/var control and asset monitoring applications to utilities worldwide running on Amazon Web Services (AWS).
Cumulus on AWS enables utilities to subscribe to a service to deploy automation software on the cloud, offering countless benefits including the minimization of large upfront capital investments in hardware and human resources, providing enhanced system security, hyper system scalability and eliminating hardware obsolescence. AWS Cumulus solution can serve as a primary or secondary disaster recovery control system for transmission, distribution or generation utilities and other asset owners. The Cumulus architecture is a suitable solution to handle monitoring and control of millions of emerging IoT devices including devices on the grid's edge.
