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Posted By: Arijit Mandal
- Principal Consultant, Utilities Services Division, Infosys Limited
On: May 15, 2013
On: May 15, 2013
Introduction Smart meters, once believed to be readily acceptable to regulators, utilities, and consumers, are no longer the same due to growing skepticism about smart meters for health, privacy, and security issues. Every utility is now facing the challenge on how to ensure smooth transition from a legacy to a more...
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Greater complexity along with variables implies greater risk of power outages, and potentially more substantial impact of power outages as well, as one would expect structural dependency on power to increase enormously under a Smart Grid Scenario. With this new scenario almost all power distribution network we know today more...
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Introduction: AMI (Advanced Metering Infrastructure) programs are typically quite complex and burdensome for the utilities, fraught with risks and challenges during their journeys towards successful implementations. Managing and mitigating the multitude of challenges and risks during an AMI implementation life cycle can drain the utilities of their energy and shift more...
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Posted By: Irshad James
- Principal Consultant, Sparta Consulting (Utilities Practice)
On: September 27, 2012
On: September 27, 2012
Introduction A Meter Data Management System (MDMS) is a key software component of any utility's smart grid advanced metering infrastructure. It has many moving parts that need to work together and communicate well in order to operate effectively and provide error-free and efficient performance. An MDMS typically requires high levels more...
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The date is July 15, 1979 and at the White House in Washington DC, President Jimmy Carter has just completed an historic televised address to the nation. The thoughts of the American public turn from their small television sets and the grainy images of the President and back to enjoying more...
Abstract: Cloud computing has brought in radical change in the way IT infrastructure (compute, storage and network) can be provisioned on demand from a shared pool and charged on pay per use model. This results in myriad business benefits including cost reduction, faster time-to-market and increased business agility. All these more...
Introduction Let's face it. Most consumers really don't care about electricity per se, except those of us who work in the industry. Just like most consumers really don't care about hand tools, except serious do-it-yourselfers and people who work in the industry. What people do care about is that the more...
Overview: AMI Infrastructure management is critical to utilities business to ensure higher network availability, secure communications and have a framework to effectively manage smart metering infrastructure with the ability to scale. As utilities are busy deploying millions of smart meters in the field today, they are constantly bogged down in more...
Utilities and governments must think ahead when planning a smart meter roll-out -- early obsolescence is an expensive error. Customize and build in future-proofing to stay ahead of the game advises Mark England, CEO, Sentec. With some utilities well underway with smart electricity meter roll outs and now turning their more...
We have been hearing a lot of definitions on SmartGrid and how the utility companies are building up on this vision, creating road maps, getting stimulus funds and running pilots. The Energy Policy Act 2005 and Energy Independence Security act 2007 has in fact given a tremendous push for the more...
