Telvent's Meter Data Management (MDM) System
Maximizes Smart Grid Investment Values
As an integral part of Telvent's Smart Grid complete electric solution, the new MDM system
integrates reading data throughout the company to optimize operations
February 25, 2010 – Telvent, the IT company for a sustainable and secure world, announced today the
launch of its new MDM System. As utilities seek to maximize their investment and advanced metering
infrastructure (AMI), Telvent Conductor MDM™ will allow the processing and assimilation of mass
amounts of data from multiple AMI networks, turning this data into business information that can be
made available to the entire company.
Telvent Conductor MDM meets both high level business requirements and operative needs. Electric
companies will now be able to have at their disposal a unique system that integrates the entire scope of
the AMI metering information and automates business processes in real time.
Developed on a flexible architecture, the solution is scalable so that utilities can interconnect multiple
AMI networks and jointly manage millions of data items to reduce complexity and operative costs. It
allows for the adequate and reliable coordination of the client's information systems and greater agility
and precision in the invoicing meter-to-cash process, cash flow, and customer service.
Using the business intelligence generated by Telvent Conductor MDM, business managers also will be
able to develop innovative designs, including customized fees, Time of Use (TOU), and other timedependent structures. This opens the door to new business models for the utility, facilitating prepayment, active demand response, and possible price bidding.
The system is based on the PI platform from OSIsoft®, an industry leader, which powers the acquisition,
storage and recovery of data in real time on a large scale. Through this centralized flow of information,
Telvent Conductor MDM reduces complexity and operative costs while offering unequaled data
management performance, scalability and reliability. Conductor MDM uses highly secure technologies,
including advanced federated security architecture, claims-based user roles, and multiple levels of
encryption and authentication to best secure the data and access it.
As the first MDM available at the commercial level with base ESRI integration, the Telvent Conductor
MDM system integrates with the power of the ArcFM Server GIS solution to display and understand the
installation information, providing operative support to requirements such as detecting power
interruptions and verifying recovery, as well as displaying the AMI systems. Conductor MDM also can be
integrated with Telvent Distribution Management System (DMS) to provide better load forecasting, by
providing better, more accurate load curves, by providing real-time information about outage situations,
and by providing a direct feedback loop for demand-response and load shaving operations.
“Telvent has successfully implemented AMI projects for some of the top world class electrical
distributors, which translates into broad practical experience," points out Manuel Sanchez, Telvent
president. "Now, utilities will be fully able to analyze and use the metering data to optimize network
performance and achieve a smart grid in a way that was not available before.”
About Telvent
Telvent (NASDAQ: TLVT) is a global IT solutions and business information services provider that improves
the efficiency and reliability of the world’s premier organizations. The company serves markets critical
to the sustainability of the planet, including the energy, transportation, agriculture, and environmental
sectors. (www.telvent.com)