The Viet Nam High Efficiency Software Corporation (VHES) on Thursday (March 16) launched its Head End System (HES) software to be used to manage the city’s smart electricity grid.

The software, which uses Vietnamese-made chips, is intermediate software that VHES developed based on the Integrated Circuit Design Research and Education Center’s research project.

VHES is the first high-tech start-up developed under the HCM City Integrated Circuit Development Programme.

Speaking at the launch ceremony, Nguyen Van Ly, deputy general director of the HCM City Power Corporation, said the corporation would modernise the city’s grid from now to 2020, including building a smart grid, an automated electrically operating system, and an electrical measurement system with remote data collection.

Tran Vinh Tuyen, deputy chairman of the city’s People’s Committee and head of the steering board of the Integrated Circuit Development Programme, said that smart management would create a safe and stable power supply.  – VNS