Built for Those Who Code the Grid: The Grid Tech Stack That Actually Delivers

Behind every modern power system is a quiet revolution - driven not just by policy, but by technology. Engineers and developers are re-imagining how electricity flows, how assets interact, and how systems respond to change. But too often, the tools they’re given are fragmented, slow to adapt, or bound by legacy architectures.

At SMPnet, we built the Omega suite with them in mind. It’s a modular, cloud-and-edge-ready platform that turns system-level complexity into real-time control, adaptive optimisation, and granular visibility. From physics-informed digital twins to millisecond-level actuation, Omega suite empowers the people coding the future of the grid to deliver smarter, faster, and more resilient operations.

Whether you’re designing new systems, building software for the grid, or scaling operational intelligence, Omega suite transforms vision into action—bridging code and control in grids that can think and respond. It’s not theory. It’s already running and expanding in the real world.

Unified by Design: Engineering the Grid’s Digital Backbone

At SMPnet, we didn’t assemble a stack, we engineered an ecosystem. The Omega suite isn’t the outcome of a single domain. It’s the intersection of power systems engineering, edge computing, embedded control, cloud-native software, AI-driven analytics, grid optimisation, and real-time data orchestration. Each layer speaks to the other - not in abstraction, but in milliseconds.

That’s what makes Omega suite different. It doesn’t sit on top of the grid. It works with it - communicating with IEDs at substations, coordinating, dispatching and controlling DERs, speaking over industry-standard protocols, running physics-based digital twins in sync with real-time telemetry, and executing decisions autonomously, at the edge or in the cloud.

This isn’t just a smart platform. It’s what happens when you unify power systems expertise with modern computing - by design.

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Cloud-native, Scalable Infrastructure That Thinks Like The Grid

Omega isn’t just deployed on the cloud, it’s architected for the cloud from the ground up. Built entirely on AWS and aligned with the AWS Well-Architected Framework, our infrastructure seamlessly scales from a single substation to an entire national grid - resiliently, securely, and automatically.

We treat infrastructure as code (IaC) as a first principle, automating every layer of our deployment pipeline, from environment provisioning and IAM policy enforcement to resource orchestration using modern tools like AWS CDK, CloudFormation. This automation is deeply integrated into our CI/CD workflows, enabling rapid iteration, safe rollbacks, and zero-downtime updates across all environments.

Each environment, from development, staging and production, provisioned in its own AWS account via a tightly governed multi-account strategy, orchestrated using AWS Control Tower and Landing Zones. This ensures clean separation of duties, fine-grained access controls, and built-in auditability through AWS Organizations and Service Control Policies.

Our architecture is serverless-first, with AWS Lambda, EventBridge, and Step Functions driving asynchronous, event-driven workflows at millisecond granularity. These components auto-scale on demand, delivering elastic compute without manual intervention - ideal for scenarios with bursty load patterns like fault simulations, dispatch recalculations, or telemetry ingestion.

Data flows through our platform like electricity through the grid: distributed, real-time, and resilient. We process and stream terabytes of time-series and event data using Amazon Kinesis, Timestream, and InfluxDB, with long-term storage and lineage tracking via Amazon S3. Live dashboards powered by Grafana and Athena surface actionable insights instantly, while APIs and downstream services receive synchronized updates via SNS, SQS, and webhooks.

Every log, metric, and trace - whether from Lambda functions, containerized workloads is aggregated, contextualised, and monitored using CloudWatch and X-Ray, enabling full-stack observability and automated incident detection.

At Omega suite, the cloud isn’t a cost centre it’s a living, intelligent fabric that adapts dynamically to the demands of modern energy systems. Our infrastructure mirrors the grid itself: distributed, self-healing, and always-on. Engineers here don’t just deploy to the cloud, they engineer adaptive, intelligent infrastructure that scales with the complexity of tomorrow’s grid.

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Edge Computing and Embedded Control

Some decisions can’t wait for the cloud. That’s why the Omega suite is engineered to run where it matters most: at the edge. Installed on substation servers and ruggedised industrial PCs, our edge deployments execute control logic with millisecond precision - coordinating DERs, adjusting voltages, managing islanding transitions, all in real time.

This isn’t a fallback or a patchwork workaround. It’s a deliberate architectural choice. When grid conditions change faster than a roundtrip ping, Omega suite’s local controllers respond instantly - without needing to ask permission from the cloud.

Our edge stack runs on Linux, with containerised services orchestrated through KVM or lightweight hypervisors and container orchestrators. Control loops and optimisation models are written in C, Rust, and Python, and they’re lean - built to run on systems with real-time Linux kernels, ensuring deterministic execution. This setup is designed to survive power disruptions, network dropouts, and hardware faults without missing a cycle. When cloud connectivity is available, edge instances sync telemetry and receive strategy updates. When it’s not, they operate autonomously, maintaining resilience without compromise.

We also embed secure OTA update mechanisms, robust logging, and health checks, ensuring every node is manageable at scale - without sacrificing determinism or control fidelity. And for the first time in power systems, virtualisation at the substation level is being deployed in live environments - led by SMPnet in collaboration with forward-looking utilities and initiatives like the Constellation project.

For engineers who live close to the metal - who want to know where every zero and one ends up, and who thrive on orchestrating hardware resources with surgical precision - Omega suite’s edge architecture offers the kind of real-time performance and system autonomy that other systems were never designed to deliver.

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Interoperability And Cybersecurity

Interoperability isn’t a checkbox - it’s a design constraint. At SMPnet, Omega’s entire IO stack is architected around a modular protocol library that supports multithreaded, asynchronous communication across both legacy and modern protocols. We don’t just support IEC 61850, DNP3, or Modbus - we run protocol stacks in parallel, isolate them into sandboxed processes, and manage state reconciliation internally. That means no vendor lock-in, no protocol gateways, and no runtime conflicts.

We are implementing protocol multiplexing at the edge, allowing devices to be queried simultaneously by multiple systems - SCADA, DERMS, EMS - without degrading performance or exposing control surfaces while our data model is dynamically mappable.

On the security front, our commitment to Zero Trust isn’t theoretical - it’s enforced by architecture. All services run under signed, containerised workloads with identity-bound service meshes. We implement mutual TLS between every internal service, enforce RBAC using centralised policy engines (OPA), and continuously authenticate API calls using expiring tokens issued via AWS Cognito and/or federated IAM providers.

ISO 27001 compliance isn’t just about passing audits but reflects our internal tooling. Secure SDLC pipelines, dependency scanning, and pre-deployment secrets detection are automated through GitHub Actions and Terraform workflows. And infrastructure drift is tracked in real time, with alerts wired into our internal systems.

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Why Technologists Join Us

At SMPnet, you’re not writing glue code or tuning legacy systems - you’re building the nervous system of tomorrow’s power grid. Our engineers work across the full stack of modern infrastructure: real-time Linux, embedded optimisation, cloud-native microservices, secure multi-protocol comms, and physics-based powered digital twins.

But it’s not only about the tech. It’s the ownership. Engineers here ship live code to critical infrastructure. You’ll write algorithms that control megawatts, design systems that stay up through faults, and shape architectures that are defining a new category of grid software.

You won’t find layers of red tape or ten-person handoffs. We favour small, high-density teams with autonomy to design, deploy, and iterate. Whether you’re writing Rust on an edge node or scaling an event-driven control API in the cloud, your work matters - and it’s measurable in system stability, control precision, and megawatts optimised.

We’re not a “power systems company that’s trying to do tech.” We’re a technology company building what the grid should be - backed by deep domain knowledge, a commitment to open standards, and partnerships with operators who want to push boundaries, not uphold the status quo.

Our Omega suite isn’t just another set of dashboards or analytics overlays. It’s a fully interoperable, real-time control and optimisation platform that turns data into action- at the cloud, at the edge, and across every voltage level.

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Careers at SMPnet

To keep growing our momentum, we are looking for inspired engineers who want to build on their own experience and help us to develop and hone our transformative autonomous grid management tools.

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Join us if you’re the kind of engineer who…

• Wants to see your code make a grid restore from a fault
• Cares about microseconds, optimised power flows, and system stability
• Builds infrastructure as if uptime and security are non-negotiable
• Wants your work to directly enable cleaner, smarter, more resilient power grids.

Check out our Careers page, follow us on Linked In and join the conversation.

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