Title :
Year 2000. How it affects utility communications
fDate :
31 Jan-4 Feb 1999
Abstract :
The Year 2000 (Y2K) plague is not limited to computer programs used to keep the company books or facilitate the company payroll. Anywhere there is a microprocessor, there is the possibility of a Y2K disaster waiting to happen. Here, the author describes how the communications department of a local electric utility is just as susceptible as the accounting department, with a possible consequence at least as severe
Keywords :
data integrity; electricity supply industry; program debugging; software maintenance; telecommunication computing; telecommunication services; Y2K problem; communications department; electric utility communications; microprocessor; millennium bug; Books; Centralized control; Communication channels; Communication system control; Microprocessors; Microwave communication; Optical fibers; Power generation; Relays; Substations;
Conference_Titel :
Power Engineering Society 1999 Winter Meeting, IEEE
Conference_Location :
New York, NY
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-4893-1
DOI :
10.1109/PESW.1999.747475
