T&D Webinar | Deploying 5G Technology to Operate Your Utility and the Delivery of Electricity

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Deploying 5G Technology to Operate Your Utility and the Delivery of Electricity

Wednesday, Aug. 14 | 1 p.m. Central

This webinar provides an overview of 5G, the newest innovation in cellular technology. It includes a brief history of cellular technology and a discussion of the 5G market and why this matters for utilities. Dive into the specific capabilities of 5G to support utility use cases, including Narrowband Internet of Things (NB-IOT) and mission-critical push-to-talk (PTT). Major private network initiatives and their use cases will be discussed, as well as a high-level technical overview of LTE and 5G technologies. This is the first in a three-part series of webinars on 5G technology.

Presenters

Peter Linder | Ericsson North America

Peter is vice president and head of 5G marketing for Ericsson North America. He takes an active role in developing and implementing Ericsson's customer decision journeys around 5G, covering the digital and human side of account-based marketing. His professional career covers 26 years at Ericsson, with 15 years in different management positions, and his field of experience is fixed/mobile broadband networks and digital transformation for operators.

Matt Olson, PE | Burns & McDonnell

Matt is a projects director and electrical engineer in the Networks, Integration & Automation department at Burns & McDonnell with more than 15 years of experience in wireless telecommunications systems for critical infrastructure networks, enterprise and carrier network design, converged network architecture and network management systems. He is experienced in all aspects of project engineering and management, including scope specification, consulting, design, contract administration and operational acceptance.

Spruha Sheth | Department Manager, Burns & McDonnell

Spruha Sheth is a transmission & distribution substation department manager at Burns & McDonnell. She has more than 15 years of experience in protection and control design and engineering, along with P&C commissioning support experience for substations in various voltages. She is experienced in developing one-line diagrams based on project scope documents, protection requirements, and automation requirements. Spruha’s background includes scoping, protection design and engineering, estimating, procurement, protection commissioning support and outage sequence analysis. She received her bachelor of science in electrical engineering in 2001 from the University of Texas at Arlington.

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