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next Generation Smart Metering Systems and Planning for the Future

This book delves into the evolving landscape of smart metering systems, focusing on customer-centric approaches, demand response management, connectivity challenges, and future projections of the utility sector. It addresses the increasing demands for data granularity, shifting billing cycles, proactive customer engagement, and the integration of multiple services. The text also explores the obstacles faced, such as IP retention, power quality issues, and the need for advanced connectivity solutions, while envisioning a future with sophisticated energy accounting and enhanced demand-side management strategies.

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next Generation Smart Metering Systems and Planning for the Future

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  1. next Generation Smart Metering Systems and Planning for the Future Anupam Mahajan

  2. More Data…..Frequently Utility Centric • Time or System sensitive Data (TOD/ABT) – Charge based on System health • Falling Communication and Computing costs • More Data – More Information – Informed Customer – Satisfied Customer • Increasing demands of granularity of data Customer Centric

  3. Population….ever increasing Response Centric • Better demand response management by near-time feedback / inferences • Control Functions demand Status feedback • Direct load control, Automatic, sensor based, timed….., individually • Localised networking with ZigBee, LONWorks…..(“short hop” comms) • Triple Play, Multi-play Equipment Centric

  4. One Pizza, Sliced…..Users are many Application Centric • Data – port it once, process many – many applications share same data – at least SCADA & MIS (SAP like) • Meter Data porting requirements increase - to cope the highest demand of data / frequency • provide meter data to other applications inside the utility increasing as other uses for the data are realized • Requirements for provide meter data to parties outside the utility increase. • Particularly in jurisdictions with competitive retailing • Also for energy service companies and others providing services to utility customers, • By agencies wanting to analyze aggregate or anonymous data Consumer Centric

  5. Want right now, if not yesterday Process Centric • On-demand power status requests – Political and Statutory bodies • Connect – Disconnect; Power On - Off • Demand for Reducing Realization Period • Increasing Data demand is mainly for awareness, status information rather for billing

  6. Past is not past but it is present in Present • Traditional utility applications will continue to support and exist with an AMI deployment. • CIS and Meter Asset management systems to add manageability of connectivity components • Billing cycles to shift off from Geographical considerations – To Customers Choice, Usage pattern, Customer pattern • Utility wants SCADA & Metering to share information • Customers are required to be given not just data, but proactive suggestions for DSM using knowledge base – Self Service

  7. Values in vogue…. • Minimum 15 min interval data (ABT de facto standard) – daily read for all residential meters • TOD details over cumulative figures • Reports to Customers over web – Information anywhere. • Necessity for multiple & better connectivity

  8. Bumps on the road…. • Intellectual Property retention • Delay in formulating the metering standards • Volume Requirement of devices beyond utility metering point • Consumers wants direct Access to devices – why to depend on utility? • Issues of extant power quality. Consideration of “do something” to increase power quality; AMI as “Hi-Fi”

  9. Bumps on the road…. • Integrated remote control is looked upon with suspicion • Meter manufacturers are concentrating on “packaging” intelligence in devices • Integrators are slow to follow the SOA / Web services suit.

  10. Looking into the Future…. • Electricity is to be “taught” to the mass as a Commodity • To adapt for multiple tariffs, TOD, TOW, TOY • Integration / Extension of Multiple Services • VAS, Triple Play, Multi Play • System Information / Proactive Information regarding availability, maintenance, payment collection • Knowledge Base for Demand Side Management

  11. Looking into the Future…. • Remote / Scheduled / Event based switching of circuits at levels deeper than that of the utility meter • Metering at all elements to have Energy Accounting, Theft Management and Operational Optimisation. • Electricity being concurrent, postmortem only is possible. • Meter Inter-changeability

  12. Let’s Rejoin…. • Even when throwing in the river, • measure what you throw, • or • Even waste should be measured • and discarded, Frequently, sufficiently

  13. Thank You

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