Conductor Meter
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Data Management
Unique and comprehensive solution adds data analytics
for enhanced smart grid operations
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Conductor Meter Data Management™
Schneider Electric Conductor MDM™ boosts traditional meter
data management functionality with robust data analytics and
operational data storage/management capabilities – making it a
comprehensive solution unlike any other MDM system available.
With these functions, you put your smart meter data to work not only for
streamlined meter to cash but also for effective decision making, improved
grid operations, and enterprise-level processes such as planning and
customer service.
Here’s how this advanced solution helps you get the highest mileage from your
smart meter data and AMI investment –
Start with reliable data aggregation
Schneider Electric Conductor MDM establishes a seamless integration of
multiple, disparate data sources, including most AMI head-end systems,
RTUs and IEDs. It aggregates these data elements into a common storage
management platform, the industry-leading OSIsoft® PI System. This approach
allows Conductor MDM to function as an Operational Data Store as well as a
Meter Data Management system, giving your utility a single, secure platform
through which meter data is enriched and analytics can be applied. NIST
approved-standards design enables secure integration with your supervisory
control and data acquisition (SCADA) system, making current and historical data
readily available to correlate with meter data and events.
The powerful Conductor MDM Validation, Estimation and Editing (VEE) engine
validates and corrects raw data collected by smart meters, field devices and
SCADA. It can scale to support millions of service delivery and measurement
points, and deliver billing-quality data to your CIS, on time, every day, as your
network grows. And validation rules and estimation algorithms are configurable,
so your utility realizes the results that meet your specific requirements.
Advanced visualization tools
Schneider Electric builds in tools that provide an alternative to cumbersome data
tables and provide greatly enhanced visibility of your smart meters, AMI network,
and distribution network –
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MI system health dashboards – A highly utilitarian user interface enables
efficient visualization of real-time events, trending and situational awareness
across your utility.
Put your smart meter data to work, not only for streamlined meter to
cash but also for effective decision making, improved grid operations,
and enterprise-level processes.
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• Inherent GIS integration – By design, it links
your smart meters to your geographic information
system (GIS) geodatabase, providing easy-tointerpret, geospatial representation of meter
network location, event mapping and spatial
analysis.
of distribution areas enhance load forecasting and
distribution planning.
• Pricing analysis – Perform ‘what if’ rate and
load shift analysis. Compare current tariffs with
alternative pricing scenarios. Estimate energy costs
for a new rate at different load levels.
Analytics extend smart metering value to
the entire enterprise
A key component of your smart grid
infrastructure
Smart meters provide huge amounts of data!
In addition to streamlining billing and improving
revenue processes, the Conductor MDM solution
incorporates the integrations and data analytics that
support –
• Network energy inventory balancing – You can
accurately compare feeder energy to aggregated
meter data to detect costly energy theft.
• Outage management – Integration enables realtime, accurate and complete outage event analysis
that helps identify nested outages and optimize
field crew dispatch – all to support efficient
response and restoration. Planned outages and
momentaries are filtered from the OMS.
• Customer satisfaction and performance
measures – Readily available data improves
the accurate reporting of the Customer Average
Interruption Duration Index (CAIDI) and other
performance indexes and information shared
with regulators, customers, media and other
stakeholders.
• Load profiling – You have accurate and highly
granular transformer load profiles, especially
significant for effective distribution planning when
electric vehicle (EV) charging and distributed
generation are involved.
• Forecasting and predictive analysis – Long-term
data stored in Conductor MDM and load profiles
Through the Conductor MDM solution, your
utility can extract new business intelligence from
your smart meters and field devices. You realize
actionable information that can optimize operations
and business process efficiency — and help achieve
smart grid initiatives, today and tomorrow.
Proven expertise
Schneider Electric is a world leader in real-time
automation control and information management
systems and has successfully implemented some of
the world’s largest multi-vendor AMI deployments.
It creates highly successful utility solutions based
on open architecture, standards compliance and
an accurate model of the utility network — a single
version of the truth — that enables interoperability
among its systems, efficient enterprise performance
and scalability for long-term effectiveness.
With a complete suite of interoperable Smart Grid
applications, including enterprise-scale GIS, DMS,
OMS and SCADA, the company provides solutions
that support the world’s electric, gas and water
utilities as they embrace the next generation in
efficient network management and sustainable
services.
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August 2012