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Trilliant Communications Hub

The Trilliant Communications Hub is the first generally available communications hub designed to support the deployment of smart meters and the first to address issues of multi-supplier and multi-device interoperability from the ground up. The Communications Hub is designed for European markets and offers both GPRS WAN and Zigbee Smart Energy Profile 1.1 HAN connectivity in a single, integrated package.  In addition, the hub supports the emerging dual protocol of DLMS over Zigbee, ensuring that interoperability with a multitude of Zigbee enabled devices is simple to achieve.  The roadmap includes introduction of other WAN and HAN communications technologies such as mesh and long-range radio to ensure future proofed interoperability.

The Hub allows various retailers and energy suppliers to deliver their smart services into households, offering transparency to the consumer on energy cost and usage, allowing them to make smarter decisions about their energy consumption. It also allows multiple devices which contribute to home energy usage to be monitored, whilst also offering retailers the opportunity to provide value-added benefits that increase customer satisfaction.

Benefits:

  • Acts as a communications bridge, supporting both WAN and HAN connections for Smart Metering.
  • Connects electric meters, gas meters, in-home displays and other smart energy devices.
  • Supports open standards including Zigbee Smart Energy Profile (SEP) and Smart Specification Working Group (SSWG) extensions.
  • Completely secure, stand-alone architecture means that supplier choice and interoperability is maintained.
  • Acts as trust centre for wide range of Zigbee-enabled devices in the home.
  • Supports DLMS over Zigbee, meaning that end-to-end security is possible without translation for new device types in the future.

Technology:

Using the ZigBee SEP, the Hub operates as a central point in a HAN of up to 16 Smart Energy devices.  The Hub compiles metering data from multiple devices and reports the data back to the Head-End Software as configured, typically during non-peak periods.  Communications via the WAN are minimized so that power consumption is very low even while maintaining connections with all associated HAN devices. 

WAN connectivity is supported by a quad-band GPRS radio.  The Hub employs standard IP protocols for communications to and from the Head-End Software and, additionally, SMS messaging is used to allow on-demand requests from the Head-End Software to the Hub.  The primary service provider and roaming network information are configurable, enabling communications wherever GPRS service is available.  The WAN antenna is internal, but an SMA connector supports an optional external antenna for installations in areas of poor cellular coverage.

Trilliant UnitySuite™ – Management Software for Smart Energy networks

Trilliant’s UnitySuite Head-End system enables utilities to operate and control their Smart Meter and Smart Grid network infrastructure.  The platform is capable of supporting millions of endpoints, which can include multiple device types, models, firmware versions and communication protocols from various device manufacturers. UnitySuite Head-end provides a secure management platform for controlling all device interactions.

The UnitySuite Head-end system supports a multi-tier architecture comprising of a web server, a multi-component application tier and a database. Redundancy is built into the system at all points to ensure high availability. Each deployment of UnitySuite delivers rock solid performance and security at a relatively low cost. Trilliant understands that every deployment of UnitySuite is part of a larger ecosystem consisting of Meter Data Management, Outage Management, Demand Side Management, Billing and other back office/front office enterprise systems. Thus, UnitySuite has been built from the ground up to support integration with other applications in the ecosystem via a robust set of interfaces for virtually all data maintained by the UnitySuite Head-end system.

Trilliant’s Communication hub is fully integrated with the UnitySuite Head-end system, meaning that when both are deployed together, a full end-to-end solution from meter through grid to energy supplier is realised.

More information about UnitySuite and our other international products can be found on our corporate website at http://www.trilliantinc.com/products