Intelligent Metering
Putting the “Smart” in the Smart Grid
Meter management is rapidly becoming a critical component to the transformation of the electricity industry. With the increasing number of advanced, or "intelligent" metering systems being implemented, the volume of data is becoming too much for traditional systems to handle, and simply capturing meter data is not enough. In order to provide the levels of service that the industry now demands, management of meter data needs to be conducted in real-time with the ability to analyze usage patterns in meter events. Demand response solutions and customer usage profiling are just a few of the benefits that intelligent metering can provide. The Progress Apama Event Processing Platform provides the technology necessary to handle the increasing volume of meter events and the tools to turn meter data into meaningful events.
Real-Time Visibility and Proactive Control of Meter Data
The Progress Apama Event Processing Platform provides a real-time view of critical meter data management strategies from full-featured dashboards. Through complex event processing, Apama monitors all event streams in real-time, detects and analyzes usage, and provides facilities to take immediate action on critical patterns. In addition, by combining smart metering events with customer service and maintenance applications, proactive notifications from event patterns across multiple sources can enhance levels of service from outage management to maintenance.
For the electricity industry, real-time visibility and proactive control is the key to Smart Grid success. Improved responsiveness comes through the ability to act on events as they happen. Apama's complex event processing capabilities enable:
- Control for Advanced Metering Infrastucture: Detect and analyze usage patterns from smart meters and offer enhanced demand generation services.
- Predictive maintenance: Capture can correlate events from distribution assets to monitor utilization and act on out-of-bounds conditions as they happen.
- Real-time visibility: Monitor usage and business-critical KPIs as they happen.
- Synchronized monitoring: Monitor process flow across mutiple systems in real-time – EMS, DMS and SCADA.
Progress Software has helped some of the world’s largest energy companies create, manage, and evolve strategies that reduce costs and improve customer service. Our solutions improve decision making by providing unparalleled visibility and control so companies can monitor, analyze and act in real-time.
