Support For AMI Metering Applications

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UnitySuite Metering is a data acquisition and data processing software application for Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) systems. Compared to other meter data acquisition systems, it is flexible in terms of operating system platform, database selection, data acquisition approaches, look and feel, reporting, and alarms. Also Trilliant offers solutions for MV-90 customers enhancing the value of an overall AMI system.

The UnitySuite Metering application benefits from a legacy of over twenty years of Smart Grid application development. This experience combined with the latest in enterprise architecture and technology platforms results in an application that excels in supporting the largest AMI metering applications.

High Performance

The UnitySuite AMI application is designed from the ground up for high performance

• Fully supports clustered application and database environments.
• All communications and processing operations are organized as separate tasks that can be dynamically  allocated to specified resources as they become available for processing
• Additional application server resources can be incrementally added as performance and scale requirements are added over time.

UnitySuite Metering has proven experience in supporting  real networks with over 1,000,000  devices online in a single instance of the software.  This figure is increasing daily as more and more SecureMesh devices are deployed worldwide.

To ensure that UnitySuite AMI application performance stays ahead of real customer requirements, Trilliant conducts  internal scale testing of  performance using simulation tools to make sure the scale capabilities of the solution are ahead of customer requirements.

Overall, Trilliant has more AMI meters communicating every day through its UnitySuite Metering application than any other single Head End system.  Our extensive real world experience gives us complete confidence that our system will scale to meet both the current and future needs of Smart Grid projects.

Reliable

Used in conjunction with the SecureMesh network, the UnitySuite Metering application regularly meets the stringent Service Level requirements of utilities and regulators. Reliability is a fundamental requirement for any AMI Head End system and Trilliant and has built in reliability features including:

• Data Caching at every level in the system to ensure
• Two modes of data acquisition, a regularly scheduled push mode from meters and an On- Demand  ‘Pull Mode’ for exceptional cases
• Total  Failover Support – no single point of failure will result in data loss

Efficient

Trilliant recognizes a significant portion of the total cost of ownership for an AMI network is the ongoing cost of resources required to support the day to day operations of the network. Based on years of experience working with customers operating production AMI networks, Trilliant has incorporated many features to efficiently manage day to day metering operations including

• Dashboard system monitoring capability for quick assessment of metering process status
• Drill down capability from Dashboard  and summary views to get to relevant detailed logs to facilitate troubleshooting efforts
• Flexible grouping algorithms to enable efficient management of system  functions such as device configuration changes, firmware upgrades, data acquisition and export tasks

UnitySuite Metering offers various levels of configuration that allow you to refine the applications so they meet your corporate needs:

• Choose your own database: Oracle, Sybase, Postgress, MySQL, and MS SQL
• Change look and feel: UnitySuite Metering embeds transparently into your current corporate web design
• Run on your preferred OS: Windows 2000, Windows XP and 2003
• Create reports: several formats available including PDF, HTML, and CSV

See a complete list of UnitySuite Head-End Software applications and components offered by Trilliant.