Ensuring power grid reliability with accurate, automatic time synchronization
Electricity travels at the speed of light. This is precisely why microsecond accuracy is critical for today’s regional grid authorities. Every second of every day, thousands of interdependent events occur between generators, transmission lines, circuit breakers, power substations, and transformers scattered across thousands of miles. Symmetricom provides the time and frequency systems that secure the essential synchronization of timelined events, scheduled power flows, monitored line frequencies and line fault detection. Our synchronization solutions deliver the accuracy, precision, automation and flexibility that meet the demands of the world’s power grids.
Time & Frequency Receivers from Symmetricom produce timing signals that can drive virtually any component in any power grid to within 30 nanoseconds of UTC (Coordinated Universal Time).
Deployed on bus level integrated systems, Symmetricom’s time and frequency processor modules deliver precise, versatile, and dependable timing solutions.
Our Time Displays provide highly visible time to remote areas and can be mounted in instrumentation racks, consoles, on ceilings/walls or desktop areas.
The atomic clock accuracy of our Network Time Protocol (NTP) time servers provide incredibly precise, reliable, and secure time synchronization to computer networks.
Ideal for measurement purposes, Symmetricom’s ultra-precise, GPS referenced IEEE 1588 Grandmaster Clocks reduce network related latency and characterizes the latency and jitter characteristics of network elements.
White Papers
How Time Finally Caught Up With The Power Grid (PDF)
The Role of Time and Frequency Systems in the Power Industry (PDF)
Brochures
New Role of Precise Timing in the Smart Grid (PDF)
