Smart Networks - Smart Metering

The electric industry is poised to make the transformation from a centralized, producer-controlled network to one that is less centralized and more consumer-interactive. The move to a smarter grid promises to change the industry’s entire business model and its relationship with all stakeholders, involving and affecting utilities, regulators, energy service providers, technology and automation vendors and all consumers of electric power.

A smarter grid makes this transformation possible by bringing the philosophies, concepts and technologies that enabled the internet to the utility and the electric grid. More importantly, it enables the industry’s best ideas for grid modernization to achieve their full potential.

In terms of overall vision, The Smart Grid is:

Intelligent – capable of sensing system overloads and rerouting power to prevent or minimize a potential outage; of working autonomously when conditions require resolution faster than humans can respond…and cooperatively in aligning the goals of utilities, consumers and regulators.
Efficient – capable of meeting increased consumer demand without adding infrastructure.
Accommodating – accepting energy from virtually any fuel source including solar and wind as easily and transparently as coal and natural gas; capable of integrating any and all better ideas and technologies – energy storage technologies, for example – as they are market-proven and ready to come online.
Motivating – enabling real-time communication between the consumer and utility so consumers can tailor their energy consumption based on individual preferences, like price and/or environmental concerns.
Opportunistic – creating new opportunities and markets by means of its ability to capitalize on plug-and-play innovation wherever and whenever appropriate.
Quality-focused – capable of delivering the power quality necessary – free of sags, spikes, disturbances and interruptions – to power our increasingly digital economy and the data centers, computers and electronics necessary to make it run.
Resilient – increasingly resistant to attack and natural disasters as it becomes more decentralized and reinforced with Smart Grid security protocols.
“Green” – slowing the advance of global climate change and offering a genuine path toward significant environmental improvement.

ennCloud – the Smart Choice for Smart Networks.

With ennCloud Infrastructure Platforms, maat International delivers a completely integrated IT offering that combines best-in-class networking and compute components; storage, security, and management technologies; and virtualization capabilities. Seamless support assures end-to-end vendor accountability. This pre-integrated, converged infrastructure enables rapid virtualization deployment so customers quickly see a return on investment. 

ennCloud Infrastructure Platforms offer varying storage capacities and processing and network performance, and they support such capabilities as enhanced security and business continuity. 

ennCloud platforms address the needs of large and small utility operators in meeting the challenges caused by increasing demand and aging infrastructure. ennCloud platforms: 

Address the security, reliability, performance, management, and financial requirements of data center managers, network operators, and financial investors 
Present the Smart Grid as a holistic entity by aggregating the diverse requirements of utility infrastructure management with a streamlined and predictable approach to deployment, expansion, and long-term support 

ennCloud platforms are a best-of-breed converged infrastructure platform that provides utility operators, network operators, and financial investors the security, reliability, and efficiency they require in a converged infrastructure solution. 

The application model of ennCloud Platform in smart networks, integrates all available resources to work together and provides a wide range of services to all levels of power grids. Virtualization is a main technology in the model that shields differences among the distinct resources and provides unified interfaces to up-layer applications, which makes the users feel no difference to using a single server. As shown in figure, there are four layers in the application model, from the bottom to the top is layer of shared resource, intermediate management, services converge and application access.

maat Smart Metering Applications.

 
Our Smart Metering Solution provides a Wide Range of Applications.

Advanced Metering Infrastructure / Meter Data Management System provides usage information taken from smart meters or meter reads. This sampling rate will grow from once per month to once per 15 minutes – a 2900-fold increase. The two-way communications that come with AMI will also provide significant opportunities for energy control to the smallest point of service. 

Transmission and Distribution Management System to gauge the integrity and efficiency of the transmission and distribution electrical networks (central office to substation). Increased automation and two-way communications are important changes that occur in this part of Our Smart Grid Infrastructure. We also provide effective storage strategies for managing the small but continuous data stream. 

Demand / Response Management System translates meter reads into load requirements, resulting in optimized energy distribution between substation and end-user. Our Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) supports more proactive, robust, remote network management. Our SCADA Solution enables self-healing from power disturbances. We also provides advanced security solutions, in Our Smart Grid /Smart Meter Solutions, to guarantee the new requirements for cyber-security, due the evolve to IP- and internet-based architectures which provides the Smart Grid adoption. 

Outage Management System (OMS) provides emergency controls and activate exceptional resources and processes in the event of an outage. 

Alternative Energy Management System is a new system which will allow utility network operators to leverage distributed generation from renewable sources (wind, solar, geothermal, hydro). 

Geographic Information System (GIS) matchs events to geographical locations, which is useful in landscape maintenance tasks like tree growth management, as well as outage identification and call-out optimization. 

Utility Enterprise Application allows all personnel to manage the growing domain of collaborative customer relationships. This system includes billing, customer care, customer usage portals, and traditional IT platforms. 

Data Analytics Application takes advantage of new types of data from the Smart Grid, as well as historical data. Operations, enterprise network (IT), and business analytics engines are fed by convergent systems. 

New Opportunities with maat Smart Metering

Our Smart Metering Solution Offers New Opportunities:

• Improved power reliability and quality 
• Optimized facility utilization and reduced construction of back-up power plants to manage peak loads 
• Enhanced capacity and efficiency of existing electric power networks 
• Improved resilience to disruption 
• Predictive maintenance and self-healing responses to system disturbances 
• Expanded deployment of renewable energy sources 
• Automated maintenance and operation 
• Reduced greenhouse gas emissions by enabling electric vehicles and new power sources 
• Reduced oil consumption by reducing the need for inefficient generation during peak usage periods 
• Improved grid security 
• Increased consumer choice