Fujitsu (News - Alert) Laboratories of America, a company focusing on research on Internet, interconnect technologies, software development and solutions for several industry verticals, has recently announced a joint collaboration with Idaho National Laboratory (INL) around smart grid energy management.

Thanks to this new alliance, the Center for Advanced Energy Studies (CAES) in Idaho Falls will be allowed to use Fujitsu's security and ad hoc communications technology to monitor building power consumption and generate vital data on energy utilization.

In addition, the joint research collaboration will use this data as a baseline and extrapolate it to measure efficiency and security of wider smart grid deployments.

"This collaboration will leverage INL's global leadership in industrial control and power system simulation test beds, and Fujitsu leadership in IT services," said Yasunori Kimura, president and CEO of Fujitsu Laboratories of America. "We are delighted to be part of this initiative by providing systems for real time data collection and cloud services for analysis and anomaly detection."

Both companies will work together to find the mission critical area and Fujitsu will also allow the use of advanced security and cloud services technology from Fujitsu Laboratories of America and WisReed, an autonomous distributed network technology that enables the automatic construction of a network.

"This collaboration will advance resilient control system technologies and establish a solid technological framework for energy security initiatives in smart grid and hybrid energy production systems" said Steve Aumeier, Associate Laboratory Director for INL's Energy and Environment Science and Technology Directorate.

Aumeier said that their objective is to ensure advanced automation does not generate new issues for cyber security, fault detection, and human systems integration.