To support the Utilities rapidly changing business and technical requirements and customer service, a scalable and flexible open based standards AMI solution that performs meter to cash processes and be able to provide additional functionalities in the various areas such as renewable energies, market transactions, settlements, demand response, prepayment support, outage management, analytics is critically essential and needed for the utilities.
Power Guard AMI solution is designed to meet interoperability, scalability, efficiency, traceability and performance, with a strong focus on smart meter data collection and processing. The main functions consist of capturing, storing, and manipulating (through validating, editing, and estimating of the data) large volumes of meter data regardless of interval (from 5 minute to hourly), business rule configuration, metering inaccuracies, communication issues, energy diversion situations, and load management needs and all these data are managed through the AMI in a seamless, near real-time manner.

Key Features

Third party interface service workstation
Interface service with third party system and complies IEC61968/IEC61970 standard.
Scalability

Flexible and scalable that can be seamlessly expanded from small project to large operated system to cope with increase in number of metering nodes.

Archive management

Separate management of main network and distribution network, separate management of metering device and user, separate management of metering archive and device archive. Based on real business requirement, take measurement point as main part to establish bidding relationships between user and device, between device and device.

Devices Running Management

Meter or concentrator parameter settings includes communication parameter, centralized metering task parameter, business process for regular operation and maintenance such as RF networking; Regulated business process management through “Solution Program- Solution Approval- Solution execution- Execution statistic” includes power on/off, clear tamper identification, payment mode switch, proofread time, etc.

VEE management

Support collected data verification through predetermined verification or predicted rule, support prediction for loss data, support manual editing for abnormal data.

Event management

Abnormal events reported by meters are classified according to the severity degree, and through email or SMS, automatic notification ensures that the abnormal event can be timely solved.

Application analysis

Support analysis and statistic for various indicators including power outage analysis, threshold analysis, power consumption analysis, power quality analysis, monitor management, communication analysis, loss analysis.

Infrastructure map

in this role, AMI can save a very detailed virtual map of the electric infrastructure components and their interconnections. These components include meters, transformers, distribution circuits, substations and the like. This map is used as a connectivity model to pass that information like outage alarms to outage management systems and other notifications to their respective systems.

Asset management system

In this role, the infrastructure map that AMI already has can be augmented with asset data to be used as an asset management system that can come in handy for small-scale utility companies that may be unable to afford a stand-alone asset management system.3

Key Benefits

• Reduce Operation & Maintenance Cost.
• Reduce Tampers and Loss.
• Enhancement of Revenue.
• Improved Reliability.
• Energy Savings.
• Proactive Customer Services.
• Cloud structure and architecture with distributed functions.
• Integration with different 3th party systems over CIM standard.
• Easy integration of different protocols and communications.
• Demand optimization.