Conductor Meter ™ Data Management Unique and comprehensive solution adds data analytics for enhanced smart grid operations NEED SCREENSHOT Make the most of your energy SM 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 – •A 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. 02 | Conductor Meter Data Management • 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. Conductor Meter Data Management | 03 ©2012 Schneider Electric. All rights reserved. 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