SoftSwitching Debuts I-Grid Power Monitoring System

SoftSwitching Technologies Corp. (Madison, WI) debuted its I-Grid™ web-based power monitoring system, which is a web-based, real-time distributed power quality and reliability monitoring and notification system that uses ultra-low-cost I-Sense™ monitors. The ability to offer an ultra-low cost monitor (less than 10 percent of the cost of existing monitors) without sacrificing significant capability has been the source of much of the excitement generated by the pilot programs.

"The key business model innovation was to move most of the 'intelligence' that is typically built into power quality monitors off the monitor and onto a central server and website. Reducing the monitors' primary function to data capture and transmission enabled a very low cost design," explained Deepak Divan, CEO of SoftSwitching

Technologies and inventor of the I-Grid.