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An American Success Story. Over 150 Years in the Utility Business. Fortune 1000 Company. 1.4B Annual Revenues. 5,300 Employees. The Leading Manufacturer of Water Infrastructure and Flow Control Products and Services. What is AMI?.
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An American Success Story • Over 150 Years in the Utility Business • Fortune 1000 Company • 1.4B Annual Revenues • 5,300 Employees • The Leading Manufacturer of Water Infrastructure and Flow Control Products and Services
What is AMI? Advanced Metering Infrastructure, is the complete automation of the process of determining how much electricity has been used by the customer for any time period and producing a bill to the customer for that usage.
How The Process Works It all begins with power useage… RF-Thermostat 900 MHz RF Electric Meter Electric Meter with Under the Glass (MIU-LF) Gateway to RF-Thermostat Load Management/ Energy Conservation 900 MHz RF Electric Meter
How The Process Works Usage data is communicated to the collector and Internet… NC (Collector) GSM/GPRS/Broadband/Private network
How The Process Works Usage data is then communicated to utility host server Utility Host Server
How The Process Works Utility host server communicates data to Third Party Billing software, Cell Phones/PDAs and the web user Interface. Utility Host Server Third party billing software Web user interface Cell phone/PDA
How The Process Works NC (Collector) GSM/GPRS/Broadband/Private network RF-Thermostat 900 MHz RF Electric Meter Electric Meter with Under the Glass (MIU-LF) Gateway to RF-Thermostat Utility Host Server Third party billing software Load Management/ Energy Conservation RF-Thermostat 900 MHz RF Electric Meter Cell phone/PDA Web user interface
Mi.Node-E Integrated Into Meters From Landis+Gyr Integration Into Focus, S4E, and Focus AX In Development Features Tamper Detection & Notification Power Outage Detection/Restoration with Automatic Notification Load Profiling, Demand, & TOU Calculations w/Integral Clock Power Quality Monitoring – Line Voltage, Blink Count, Outage Count Consumption Measurements - +kWh, -kWh, Net kWh, & Added kWh Non-Volatile Data Storage, 45D Mi.Net System Components Two Way Communication
Mi.Net System Components Mi.Node-W • Soft disconnect • Alarms, and alerts • Leak detection • Revenue protection and fraud detection • Web access for consumers, etc • Meter Right-Sizing One Way Communication Hot Rod Mi.Node Two Way Communication Mi.Node Mi.Node Lithium batteryhas 20 year life Mi.Node Mi.Gate
Mi.Net System Components Mi.Gate — Central and Communication Module Power • 120 volts AC • 10W idle • 15W active or • 12 volt DC solar power Communication • Cell, Ethernet, Wi-Fi or Radio Size and Weight • 7” x 10” x 3” • 2.5 Lbs.
Mesh Networking Engineered routes between nodes • Nodes can all connect to each other via multiple hops • Self-healing = very reliable
Star Networking In a star network environment, communication signals are transmitted from each meter to the receiver and then to the utility.
Mesh or Star Technology – Mi.Net is both • 900 MHz Radio Technology • Stable technology • Battery backup
Mi.Net System Components • Mi.Host — Host server where all the information is processed • 120 volts AC
Host Server and user Interface • Mi.Host • Windows SQL Server • On-demand Two-way Reading • Hosted or Utility Owned Options
Host Server and user Interface • Mi.Host • Windows SQL Server • On-demand Two-way Reading • Hosted or Utility Owned Options • Consumption Profiling • Leak Detection Reports • Meter Tampering Reports
Host Server and user Interface • Mi.Host • Windows SQL Server • On-demand Two-way Reading • Hosted or Utility Owned Options • Consumption Profiling • Leak Detection Reports • Meter Tampering Reports • GIS Routing tools and Outage Management • Time of Use (TOU) billing • Transfers Appropriate Billing Data
Host Server and user Interface • Mi.Host • Windows SQL Server • On-demand Two-way Reading • Hosted or Utility Owned Options • Consumption Profiling • Leak Detection Reports • Meter Tampering Reports • GIS Routing tools and Outage Management • Time of Use (TOU) billing • Transfers Appropriate Billing Data • Customer Account Access • Real-time e-mail and SMS Messages • Temperature and Precipitation Data
User Interface Easy Navigation ALL Meters
User Interface – By Account Intergrated CIS Data On-demand Reads “to the Meter”
User Interface – Reports Numerous Report Formats On-Line Graphs to Export to Excel
GIS Tool – Outage Management If you click the Outage tab in the upper left corner
GIS Tool – Outage Management Full Outage list is then shown for sorting and prioritizing work
GIS Tool – Outage Management Click on an icon and you can see address detail
Consumer Home page Easy Navigation Linked from Utility Message from Utility Consumer Alerts, also Emailed Weather Data
Consumer Settings Page Consumer Managed Email List Consumer Selected Units Consumer Managed Thresholds
Consumer Daily Consumption Year, Month or Hourly Consumer Threshold
Eliminates Capital investment costs for Host Server hardware Upfront software costs Tasks associated with the host server Town need to monitor & manager daily operation of the system Hosting Provides a carefree experience
Re-deploy Meter Reader resources Reduce Meter Reader vehicle expense Eliminate lost time accidents Reduce clerical billing expense Reduce meter reading/billing errors Benefits of Core Functionality
Additional Benefits Obtainable • On-demand meter readings • Detect meter tampering • Detect meter theft • Detect customer outage and duration • Remotely reconfigure meter
Benefits Beyond metering • Monitor customer and system loading • Real time loading of distribution equipment • Detect customer-owned generation backfeed into utility • Enable logging of power quality data • Correlate load demand with ambient weather conditions • Allow use of advanced tariffs (TOU)
Benefits for the Consumer • Provide real-time electricity pricing • Option to allow demand response with associated cost saving • Allow totalization of physically remote locations into one bill • Opens up various tariff options
Information Access Web access of meter data by: Utility Customer
Empowering Consumers and Utility Personnel PC Cell Phone PDA
Enterprise Resource management • Customer Access • Remote Thermostat • Home Display • Smart Meters • Electric, Water, Gas • Residential • C & I • Support for ISO DR • Certified Vendor for ISO-NE • Carried over to NY ISO • Maintenance, Operation • Power Outage Management • Tamper Detection • Remote Hard Disconnect • Remote Soft Disconnect • Transformer Loading • Energy Management • Remote control of Thermostat • Remote Control of any Load • Billing Services • Support for existing Billing System • Rate, TOU, Demand • Virtual Metering • Enterprise Resource Management • Customer Information System • Global Information System • Meter, Transformer
I called one of our Selectmen after his use was picked out by our variance report. Was able to give specific hours with high use Blamed us first Blamed kids second Blamed wife third After we had the first snow of the year, I called him the next morning and told him that his use remained low that night He realized that it was his engine block heaters from trucks that had previously been garaged at another location Improve Customer Relations
Last month high bill complaint Went into his history and asked — what did you begin doing at 10:00 on January 20th? You could see by the look on his face that he knew what the problem was. He left, then called back a few hours later to see if his use had returned to normal. Improve Customer Relations
What is it? 20 Electric meters & Mi.Nodes 20 Water meters & Mi.Nodes 1 Collector Hosted Data Collection Practice use of our Software Pilot Project • Why do it? Test drive before you buy. • Gain operational experience with a real AMI system • Get comfort with our software & user interface • Demonstrate Mi.Net/WiFi compatibility • Gain confidence on our communications scheme • Meter-Radio-Collector-Host-YOU
Water AMI (1-way instead of AMI (2-way) Electric AMI (2-way)Water data jumps from water meter… to electric meter… then to collector… then to server (host) Pro — cost savings on water radio module Con — reduced feature set for water customers Migration Path – Hybrid Solution
What do the following have in common? • Last • Fast • Week • Weak • Next • Text • Home • Rome One LETTER difference, but VERY different meanings Pop Quiz
What is the difference? Extra Credit
AMR Module (Hot Rod) able to communicate with Mi.Node Electric Radio Clear Migration Path to AMI Allows for “Hybrid” Installations Offers Lower Cost Full AMI One Way/ Two Way Deployment Lower Cost Hybrid AMI System