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Meter Data Management System
Maximize the return on your technology investments with ElectSolve’s uCentra™ Operational Data Management System. The next-generation MDMS provides an integration platform for disparate utility systems such as AMI, AMR, SCADA, CIS, OMS, EA/GIS, demand response, and distribution line management systems.
Unifying All Public Power Information Systems
Utilities have plenty of data. Unfortunately, most of the data is hidden away in disparate databases and silos where it is not easily accessible or reportable. To maximize customer service and operational performance, utilities need to change how they leverage the data they have now and plan for the new data streams they anticipate having in the future. That’s why public power utilities are turning to ElectSolve.
An IT services and solutions provider, ElectSolve is dedicated to helping public power electric, gas, and water utilities link all of their information systems. ElectSolve’s strengths include in-depth expertise and experience in data integration, process development, and solutions implementation, with a proven track record of enabling advanced utility systems to communicate successfully today and prepare to migrate toward the Smart Grid systems of the future.
The uCentra™ software platform can scale with the unique requirements of utilities of any size in terms of both functionality and pricing. The base MDM system includes all traditional MDM functions and goes far beyond by comprehensively giving an operational view of utility data. This is not restricted to AMI and CIS, but rather any field endpoint or operational system to include AMI/AMR, IEDs, SCADA history, CIS, EA/GIS, OMS and wholesale delivery points.
The days of MDM being too complex for public power are over. The ElectSolve MDM installation process is timely and the system is very intuitive and easy to use by your staff from day one… a single interface to data from disparate operational utility systems.
ElectSolve integrates data from the systems of other vendors currently allied with Hometown Connections, including Elster, Milsoft Utility Solutions, Survalent Technology, Cogsdale, and N-Dimension Solutions. APPA members may now to turn to one source for the industry’s premier information system solutions.
Putting AMI "Data Overload" To Work
The MDM platform serves as the integration point for current and future data collection technologies such as AMI. MDM is well-suited to utilities that have already implemented AMI and find themselves with “data overload” and need a strategic methodology to efficiently manage and utilize the vast amounts of data they are collecting from multiple data streams from multiple systems such as: drive-by, fixed wireless, mesh, PLC, etc., into a single data platform. Utilities that have not yet implemented AMI will also find that it makes sense to have an MDM in place before moving forward with these projects.
A unique application of the ElectSolve MDM is Loss Analysis Reporting System (LARS). LARS provides a comprehensive view of line loss by systematically reconciling wholesale power purchase records with power purchase sales down to the substation and individual feeder circuit.
Demand Response is supported by the ElectSolve MDM, providing program enrollment, event scheduling, participant notifications, and measurement and verification of performance.
Meter Data Management and More
Meter Data Management (MDM) has been traditionally defined as a repository for meter data collected from diverse meter collection systems as well as providing validation, estimation and editing functions, and providing integration with customer information systems. It is the primary source for meter analysis and load profiling. Today, leading MDM system providers now broaden the definition to be a data repository for operation data which surpasses early generation MDMs by integrating all collection endpoint data such as SCADA, outage management system data, and GIS mapping data.
ElectSolve includes integration capabilities with the baseline system. Integration is critical since data aggregated together is not useful unless it can be shared. Sharing the MDM data with business intelligence applications and other measurement and reporting platforms is the ultimate goal of deploying an MDM system.
The MDM system from ElectSolve is a centralized solution for operational data management, analysis, and reporting. It provides a full 360-degree view of all customer and operational data. The MDM is fully interoperable with all collection systems, allowing the MDM portal and dashboards to provide not only summary information, but the ability of the stakeholder to access granular information, such as a specific register value from a smart meter.
ElectSolve’s web-browser-based dashboards allow utilities to “park” operational data in various orientations and report formats on a user’s PC desktop for internal monitoring of operational statistics and business performance metrics. The MDM web portal provides web-browser access and the ability to select an MDM point (meter, AMI module, customer, substation, etc.) and view point details, alarms, alerts, and error conditions.
Along with improving utility operations, the ElectSolve system gives customers web-based tools to learn more about their energy use habits and lower costs. Today, residential customers are embracing the opportunity to better understand how they use energy and the empowerment that comes with understanding their individual energy use decisions.
ElectSolve works with each utility to implement the MDM system in phases. Once MDM is deployed, system integration can be phased in. System management dashboards, the MDM utility portal, and the MDM customer portal can be extended later once the core system has been deployed. Utilities set the pace of their phased implementation.
Contact Us
For more information on the benefits of MDM from ElectSolve, contact your Hometown Connections representative.
See the ElectSolve web site for more information.
• ElectSolve Technology Solutions & Services, Inc.
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