Test Lab Consulting

Knowledge, experience and expertise. That's what we bring to the consulting table.

The result: You can rest easy, confident in the fact that with Drummond Group consulting services, you will benefit from the highest level of Quality Assurance, Software/Systems Testing, Configuration Management, and related consulting for your specific needs.

We offer a wide range of consulting services based on our Test Lab services and Test Management.

Smart Grid Consulting

Smart Grid adoption is all about interoperability. Good news: Drummond Group is the interoperability expert you need.

To start, we can help you sort through the confusion – as you wrestle with a very young market with few standards in place to support interoperability of the products and services available. We will make sense out of the requisite interoperability of standards, technology and processes.

The GridWise Architecture Council has developed a context setting framework for interoperability, and the definition we use for interoperability is: "The capability of two or more networks, systems, devices, applications, or components to exchange information between them and to use the information so exchanged."

Test methodology involves the proper staging of:

  • Debug testing, problem tracking, resolution and re-testing
  • Backward and forward version testing and other life-cycle issues
  • Feedback of observed problems back into the technical standards and the bodies that oversee them

Most of the technical standards supporting Smart Grid are in a late development phase and await final market and deployment integration. Hence some problems should be expected in all areas of implementation. Even small issues can be extremely costly especially when multiplied by the thousands of different implementations and deployments. It behooves the client to ascertain the issues early and address and solve them for the individual vendors and utilities so as to reduce installation and ongoing operational costs. It is for this reason that experienced leadership is needed in creating the interoperability testing methodology. If the test methodology is not well constructed, costly problems will be found in later phases or in new version roll-outs and other life-cycle issues.

A common interoperability problem area is the standards writing process and the effect on the prototype, implementation, testing and interoperability.

Rik Drummond, CEO and Chief Scientist of Drummond Group, is current member and past chair of the GridWise Architecture Committee. He leads the Drummond Group Smart Grid Consulting practice and has been directly involved in writing, prototyping and testing interoperability of many internet standards used today.



Participating Companies and Test Communities


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Hill-Rom Holdings, Inc.   SEEBURGER AG   Sequel Systems Inc.   SilkOne Inc.   SMARTMD™ Corporation   Smoky Mountain Information Systems, Inc.   Source Medical Solutions   SRSsoft   Sterling Commerce, an IBM Company   Streamline Health, Inc.   Summit Healthcare Services Inc.   Surgical Information Systems   Systemedx Inc   TactusMD™   Tech-Time, Inc.   TechSoft, Inc.   TeleResults   The Echo Group   The Shams Group   The Shams Group   TheraManager LLC   TIBCO Software Inc.   TIBCO   Tools4Medicine, Inc.   Tranquilmoney Inc.   Transentric   TransMed Network Inc.   Trellix Engineering Corp.   UBISECURE   Unibased Systems Architecture, Inc.   Unifi Technologies, Inc.   Unityware   US Oncology   Vanderbilt University   Varian Medical Systems   VipaHealth Solutions, LLC   Virco Lab, Inc.   VisionTree Software, Inc.   WEBeDoctor, Inc.   Welligent, Inc.   Wellogic   Williams Group   Workflow.com, LLC   Xcite Health Corp. and Encounterpro Healthcare Resources Inc.   Xpress Technologies   Yak Digital Corp.   ZipChart, Inc.  









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