next Generation Smart Metering Systems and Planning for the Future

1. next Generation Smart Metering Systems and Planning for the Future Anupam Mahajan

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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”

9. 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.

10. 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

11. 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

12. Let’s Rejoin…. • Even when throwing in the river, • measure what you throw, • or • Even waste should be measured • and discarded, Frequently, sufficiently

13. Thank You