Company

Bow Networks was founded in 1986 and has 20 years of experience developing innovative communications products for the electric utility industry, including:

EMS
SCADA
Substation Automation
Distribution Automation
Cyber security

We have a stable, experienced management team and board of directors
Bow Networks' products and solutions have been developed to address the following issues faced by Transmission and Distribution utilities:

Vast amounts of valuable information are now available from the substation...
- Relays
- On-line monitoring
...with high potential value to utility
- Fast fault resolution
- Data mining for planning & engineering
- Optimized instead of routine maintenance scheduling
Non-EMS clients increasing in quantity and importance.
- Historian/Data Warehouse
- OMS
- Engineering users
Different subsets of substation data have different consumers
- SCADA to EMS
- "beyond SCADA" to historian
- Fault files to central server/database
EMS should not be used as a "communications hub" for these users
- Direct logical connections are needed
Increasing deployment of WAN technology to substations
Security an increasing concern
Greater involvement of IT department in substation communications
Increasing acceptance or preference of COTS (commercial, off-the-shelf) solutions

Bow Networks Products:

eLAN

A modular architecture of communications, data management, and automation applications
Combines the best mainstream computing and communications technology with Bow's expertise in electric utility communications and data management.
Deployed on open, available, hardened industrial computing platforms running Linux

CrossBow

Remote, secure (to NER CIP standards) access to substation IEDs
Leverages installed 3rd party gateway devices for low deployment cost

OpenHouse

Storage, visualization and analysis of field data
- fault data
- Asset monitoring data