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From Business Case Planning to Benefit Reality – An Industry Perspective. Walter Levesque Vice President, Sales Hunt Technologies, Inc. Hunt Technologies, Inc. Founded in 1985 as a research company 1994 Patented Ultra Narrow Bandwidth (UNB) Technology Located in Pequot Lakes, MN
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From Business Case Planning toBenefit Reality – An Industry Perspective Walter Levesque Vice President, Sales Hunt Technologies, Inc.
Hunt Technologies, Inc. • Founded in 1985 as a research company • 1994 Patented Ultra Narrow Bandwidth (UNB) Technology • Located in Pequot Lakes, MN • 130+ employees • 430+ customers • 3,000,000+ endpoints
Two-Way Communication Always On™ Each endpoint broadcasts information independently Near Real Time Downstream UNB Upstream Substation
Primary Business Case Reasons for AMRBased on Information from Chartwell and Howard Scott Prepared: June 2002
Emerging Benefits of AMR Based on Information from Chartwell and Howard Scott Prepared: June 2002
Meter Reading Time-of-Use Demand – system wide Load Profiles Multi-Utility Monitoring Outage Detection Power Restoration Distribution Operations Preventive Maintenance Load/Transformer Balancing Power Quality Reduce Line Loss Control Load Control Remote Disconnect Remote Reconnect Important Deliverables
Consumption Profiles • 5 minute intervals aggregated into 15 minute intervals • 15 minute intervals directed into rate periods • Support of four rate periods • Time synchronized to National Standard
Consumption Profiles 12:00am 6:00 7:00 8:00 9:00 12:00pm 6:00 7:00 8:00 9:00 11:59pm 5 4 2 OFF PEAK SHOULDER PEAK $.04 $.07 $.13
Meter Reading Time-of-Use Demand – system wide Load Profiles Multi-Utility Monitoring Outage Detection Power Restoration Control Load Control Remote Disconnect Remote Reconnect Distribution Operations Preventive Maintenance Load/Transformer Balancing Power Quality Reduce Line Loss Important Deliverables
S/N 12380 S/N 6714 S/N 12452 S/N 6783 S/N 12370 S/N 12357 S/N 12430 S/N 12412 S/N 12323 S/N 12342 S/N 12306 End Point Information System • Power Quality • Line Loss • Transformer Balancing & Sizing • Phase Loading & Identification • Preventative Maintenance
Remote Administration • Command Messaging • Demand reset • Load Control with validation • Service disconnect/reconnect with validation • Final read • Reprogram the Endpoint • Reconfigure packet type and structure • Asynchronous command to interrupt or direct consumption profile to appropriate rate period
Benefits of Rapid Deployment • Improve project ROI • Reduce operational expenses • Additional data for effective/efficient engineering