next Generation Smart Metering Systems and Planning for the Future

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next Generation Smart Metering Systems and
Planning for the Future
Anupam Mahajan
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More Data..Frequently
Utility Centric

• Time or System sensitive Data (TOD/ABT) Charge
  based on System health
• Falling Communication and Computing costs
• More Data More Information Informed Customer
  Satisfied Customer
• Increasing demands of granularity of data

Customer Centric
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Population.ever increasing
Response Centric

• Better demand response management by near-time
  feedback / inferences
• Control Functions demand Status feedback
• Direct load control, Automatic, sensor based,
  timed.., individually
• Localised networking with ZigBee,
  LONWorks..(short hop comms)
• Triple Play, Multi-play

Equipment Centric
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One Pizza, Sliced..Users are many
Application Centric

• Data port it once, process many many
  applications share same data at least SCADA
  MIS (SAP like)
• Meter Data porting requirements increase - to
  cope the highest demand of data / frequency
• provide meter data to other applications inside
  the utility increasing as other uses for the data
  are realized
• Requirements for provide meter data to parties
  outside the utility increase.
• Particularly in jurisdictions with competitive
  retailing
• Also for energy service companies and others
  providing services to utility customers,
• By agencies wanting to analyze aggregate or
  anonymous data

Consumer Centric
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Want right now, if not yesterday
Process Centric

• On-demand power status requests Political and
  Statutory bodies
• Connect Disconnect Power On - Off
• Demand for Reducing Realization Period
• Increasing Data demand is mainly for awareness,
  status information rather for billing

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Past is not past but it is present in Present

• Traditional utility applications will continue to
  support and exist with an AMI deployment.
• CIS and Meter Asset management systems to add
  manageability of connectivity components
• Billing cycles to shift off from Geographical
  considerations To Customers Choice, Usage
  pattern, Customer pattern
• Utility wants SCADA Metering to share
  information
• Customers are required to be given not just data,
  but proactive suggestions for DSM using knowledge
  base Self Service

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Values in vogue.

• Minimum 15 min interval data (ABT de facto
  standard) daily read for all residential meters
• TOD details over cumulative figures
• Reports to Customers over web Information
  anywhere.
• Necessity for multiple better connectivity

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Bumps on the road.

• Intellectual Property retention
• Delay in formulating the metering standards
• Volume Requirement of devices beyond utility
  metering point
• Consumers wants direct Access to devices why to
  depend on utility?
• Issues of extant power quality. Consideration of
  do something to increase power quality AMI as
  Hi-Fi

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Bumps on the road.

• Integrated remote control is looked upon with
  suspicion
• Meter manufacturers are concentrating on
  packaging intelligence in devices
• Integrators are slow to follow the SOA / Web
  services suit.

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Looking into the Future.

• Electricity is to be taught to the mass as a
  Commodity
• To adapt for multiple tariffs, TOD, TOW, TOY
• Integration / Extension of Multiple Services
• VAS, Triple Play, Multi Play
• System Information / Proactive Information
  regarding availability, maintenance, payment
  collection
• Knowledge Base for Demand Side Management

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Looking into the Future.

• Remote / Scheduled / Event based switching of
  circuits at levels deeper than that of the
  utility meter
• Metering at all elements to have Energy
  Accounting, Theft Management and Operational
  Optimisation.
• Electricity being concurrent, postmortem only is
  possible.
• Meter Inter-changeability

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Lets Rejoin.
Even when throwing in the river, measure what
you throw, or Even waste should be measured
and discarded,
Frequently, sufficiently
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Thank You