Case Study: CPS Energy Strategizing The Future Of Utility

By J. Sharpe Smith

The Karta and Motorola assessments are serving to help CPS Energy's Information and Communications Services (ICS) to better serve the utility's generation business unit, known as Energy Development, and distribution business unit, known as Energy. For example, energy generation employees want to create work orders on the spot when they notice safety issues as they do their rounds at the plant.

Previously, communications services and IT were divided into two camps according to their use of analog and digital technologies, respectively. With CPS upgrading the entire communications network to digital technology, the two areas will soon speak the same language. Going from analog to digital also allows CPS the flexibility to integrate voice and data, which will open the doors to centralize system management.

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