Time is a great leveler. 5 years back, we were struggling to get our standardization acts together in power system communications. Indian standards committees were more forced to accept international standards because, manufacturer's professed the greatness and customers evaluated and made themselves sure of its utility, rather than a collective, systematic and consistent effort at standard adoption, creation and implementation.
Last week as the BIS LITD10 seminar on standardization in control center and the subsequent LITD 10 sectional committee meeting drew to a close, i was atleast positive that even if we are slow, we are in the right direction. Combining this with how India went about adopting DLMS/COSEM as its national standard, with an India specific companion standard, things are slowly getting into place.
I was very impressed by the joint view point of the power industry players to not name all the new working groups created as smart grid groups, and there-by focusing on the bread-and-butter problems our Industry faces and make a road-map for the next 5-10 years, rooted in reality, and not rooted in problems of another market outside, and at the same time willing to incorporate the fundamental aspects of what is happening in the standardization space globally.
