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Grid modernization involved massive capital investments, including the deployment of ADMS alongside thousands of smart devices, such as reclosers, voltage regulators, capacitor controllers, and fault indicators. Each field device will require ongoing configuration changes, firmware updates, password rotations, and security patches throughout its 15–20-year operational life.  To ensure correct operation, ADMS systems. Grid Models other systems need to be kept updated on key settings of these devices.

Without automated device management, the management of all these grid modernization devices quickly becomes an enormous annual O&M expense and cybersecurity risk.   Secure remote access may reduce the need for truck rolls, but without automation, manually performing management tasks for these devices will still be very time consuming and labor intensive.

Leading utilities are solving this challenge by deploying Secure Access and Automated Device Management (SADM) platform in parallel with their ADMS.  SADM goes beyond basic secure remote access, and can centrally automate all key device management activities, including automated configuration management, event and fault file data collection, password rotation, firmware monitoring and patching. 

With SADM, utilities finally have an accurate System of Record of the current setting of all their smart devices.  SADM can also be implemented to integrate and update relevant settings needed by ADMS, Grid Models and Engineering tools.

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