The town has a strong manufacturing tradition, particularly in machine tools and electrical goods.

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The company provides hardware, software and services for connecting utilities with devices on a power grid, including advanced metering and faster detection of outages and tools to improve the reliability of electrical grids.

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Today's electrical system is a creaking relic lacking the sophisticated command-and-control tools necessary to ensure reliability.

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Fortunately, many of the concepts and tools needed to mitigate the consequences of solar storm activity for the electrical grid exist today.

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