Custom
Electronics for the Grids, Networks, and Infrastructure That Power Modern
Life
From AMI smart meter endpoints and DNP3 RTUs to IEC 61850 protection relays and SCADA communication gateways — Ankh Innovations engineers custom utility electronics from schematic to certified, field-hardened product.
The Stakes in Utility Infrastructure
One Failed Device Can Black Out a City Block or Contaminate a Water Supply
Utility infrastructure electronics operate in environments most electronics were never designed for: 15 kV switching surges, 60 Hz magnetic fields from busbars, submersion in flooded vaults, and 30-year product lifecycles that outlast entire semiconductor generations.
Regulatory frameworks — NERC CIP for bulk electric, AWIA for water, 49 CFR Part 192 for gas — treat electronics as cyber assets, not just components. Qualification and audit trails are non-negotiable from the first prototype.
Ankh Innovations engineers utility electronics with DNP3, IEC 61850, and ANSI C12.22 native stacks, isolation architectures that survive substation switching transients, and documentation packages built for FAT/SAT and long-term maintenance by utility field crews.
From Smart Meter Endpoints to Substation Protection
AMI Smart Meter & Metering Infrastructure
Distribution Automation & SCADA Hardware
Substation Protection Relays & Merging Units
Water Infrastructure Sensors & Controllers
Gas Distribution Monitoring Electronics
Demand Response & DERMS Edge Devices
Power Quality & Grid Edge Analytics
Utility Cybersecurity & Communication Hardware
Why Engineering Teams Choose Ankh
We Don't Use Protocol Libraries. We Own the Stack.
Our firmware team has implemented DNP3 SA Level 5 from scratch, built IEC 61850 GOOSE publishers and MMS servers on ARM Cortex-M devices with no RTOS overhead, and written ANSI C12.22 relay layer code that passes DLMS/COSEM conformance tests on the first submission. When a utility's SCADA master sends an unsolicited response and your IED needs to parse it in under 50 ms under substation EMI, we know exactly what the stack is doing at every layer.
15 kV Switching Transients Don't Scare Us. They're in the Spec.
Every utility product we design starts from the IEC 61000-4-5 Level 4 surge waveform — 4 kV/2 kA — not as an afterthought, but as a layout constraint. Our isolation barriers are sized for the real switching environment, our PCB stackups are routed to keep common-mode noise off signal traces, and our TVS/MOV/GDT coordination networks are calculated, not selected from a reference design. Products ship with Hi-Pot test data, not just compliance labels.
Cyber Asset Qualification Is Not a Box We Check at the End.
NERC CIP, AWIA, and 49 CFR Part 192 treat electronics as cyber assets from day one. We build NERC CIP supply-chain risk documentation, secure-boot attestation records, and patch management procedures in parallel with hardware development — not as a post-design sprint. Your procurement and cybersecurity teams get the artifact package they need for CIP-013 vendor risk assessments before the first pilot unit ships.
We Test with Your SCADA Master, Not Just a Conformance Tool.
Utility electronics that pass conformance testing and then fail integration with a 20-year-old SCADA master are worthless in the field. We maintain lab environments with DNP3 and IEC 61850 masters from the major vendors — OSIsoft PI, GE iFIX, Inductive Automation Ignition — and test every protocol stack against real SCADA architectures before pilot deployment. When your field crew commissions a new RTU, it works the first time.
580,000-Endpoint Wi-SUN AMI Network for a Tier 1 Electric Utility
A major Midwestern electric utility needed to replace 580,000 legacy AMR meters with a fully interoperable Wi-SUN FAN AMI network. Ankh designed the custom meter communication unit (MCU) hardware, Wi-SUN data concentrator units, and head-end communication interface — delivering a system that passed full ANSI C12.22 conformance testing and integrated with the utility's existing MDM and billing platform without middleware modifications.
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