Advanced Meter Infrastructures (AMI) will be the cornerstone and backbone of emerging Smart Grids. AMI will be your window to the grid and funnel significant amounts of data (from Home Area Networks (HAN), Smart Meters, SCADA and other Smart Grid components) to Meter Data Management (MDM) software, Customer Information Service (CIS) and Billing software, Outage Management Software (OMS) and Distribution Automation (DA) systems.
How AMI and Smart Grids Work Together
In Winter Park, Fl TritonAMI installed the cities Electric and Water Smart Metering system, successfully demonstration the use of in home Zigbee technology to control A/C and appliances and provided assistance in bringing the third-party OMS software on line.
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Avoiding "Garbage in Garbage out"
You can effectively utilize management tools such as MDM, CIS/Billing, OMS and DA systems only if the AMI systems provide accurate, reliable and secure data at sufficient intervals and quantities to support the level of management and control that you desire.
The design and installation of the AMI systems are, by far, the most costly and risky infrastructure improvement required to implement a Smart Grid. It will be far easier to upgrade or replace supporting software systems, if necessary, in the future than HAN’s, Smart Meters, SCADA systems or other telecommunication hardware in the field.
TritonAMI has significant, real-world, experience in the analysis, funding, selection, procurement and installation of a wide variety of AMI systems. We have successfully performed the integration of data from the AMI systems into a variety of CIS/Billing systems. We have the real-world experience to understand every facet of a Smart Grid system. We are product independent and we will recommend the best combination of field hardware and communication systems matched to your requirements and the capabilities of various, MDM, CIS, OMS and DA software systems you may consider.