Ericsson to deploy energy Australia LTE smart card

LTE is set to be an integral part of Australia's leading smart grid rollout with a new agreement between Ericsson and EnergyAustralia, claimed to be the country's largest energy provider. Ericsson will design and integrate a multi-vendor wireless access network that will enable two-way communications between electrical control devices, back-end systems and households. The network will be rolled out across 150 sites in New South Wales.

This will be part of Australia's leading smart grid rollout and will transform EnergyAustralia's electricity network into a smarter, greener and more efficient network. The telecommunications network will transmit data between 12,000 smart monitoring devices being installed on the electricity distribution network, up to 3,000 mobile field computers, and 200 zone substations.EnergyAustralia will conduct trials of an LTE platform commencing in 2011, with the intent to migrate to a full LTE network.