The Slice of PI

Full Retail Contestability Telemetry (FRCT)
Project for
Origin Energy Asset Management
Yochai Glick- System Architect

TUSC is an independent software services company, specialising in service management solutions
• Founded in 1981
• Part of the Ericsson Group since 2005
• Offices in Melbourne,
Sydney, Adelaide & Brisbane
• ISO 9001 certified
• Focus on people, process & technology
ISO 9001 LIC 3393
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UTILITIES &
RESOURCES
TELECOMMUNICATIONS
GOVERNMENT
ENTERPRISE
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RMR – Retail Market Rules
– 26 July 2004 “Market Go-Live Day”
32. Error correction notice
56. Request for historical REMCo standing data
68. If new connection confirmation notice is not valid
175. Gate Point control systems
177. Calculation of heating degree day (SA only)
182. Users collectively to keep sub-network pressurised
260. Determine swing errors
343. Determinations which may be made
375. No liability for acting in reliance on data provided by others
401. Jurisdictional approval
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Functional Specification (H/W, S/W, Engineering):
Function:
• RTU, MTU
• GPRS Telemetry
• SCADA
• Historian
• Reporting & Billing
• Validation, Conversion,
Estimation, Substitution,
Reconciliation
Solution:
• Kingfisher
• DNP3 (time stamped)
• Citect
• OSI PI
• ACE, Oracle, Crystal
Enterprise
• ACE
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• What is FRC and what is FRCT?
– FRC
• De-regulation of the SA/WA gas industry
• Multiple retailers (like telecoms, ISPs etc)
• Set of Rules to operate the market
– FRCT
• Market requirements (settlement, swing gas, gate point metering data, interval data)
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RTUs used to collate and send data over telemetry
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Daily bill with hourly consumption based on a few telemetry readings
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RMR Prescribed Reports to Users (Retailers) and REMCo
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Fault causes gap in data
Estimate from corresponding day
Estimated data
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• Hardware
– Field devices (45 new RTUs, 2 new MTUs, integration of 143 existing sites through current system (Citect, MTU, comms))
– IT System (7 new servers, 3 new workstations, 3 standby laptops)
– FTP server (sending and receiving reports to REMCo)
• Infrastructure
– Communications (new GPRS Telstra communications for RTUs)
– Power supply (new 30 kVA Generator, 15 kVA UPS at Brompton)
– Accommodation (GC room upgrade, power, network, desks for 4 people)
• Software
– SCADA (CITECT)
– Protocol interface (IOServer OPC)
– Calculation, estimation, substitution, reconciliation engine (OSI PI)
– Reporting (Crystal Enterprise / Crystal Reports, Oracle)
• Diagrammatically, can be shown as..
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Digital Radio
GPRS/GSM
PSTN, etc.
MTU
Historian MTU DNP3 Interface
New CITECT
Pipeline Operator
Gate station data
Internal Users
BoM
Weather data
RTU
Load
DNP3 protocol
Historian Enquiries
RTU
RTU
RTU
KF-2 protocol
New
CP-21 CPUs
Old
MTUs
Alarms DB
Phoenix
Report
Server
Servers
Data values,
Sites, etc.
ODBC
Database
Switch
REMCo
Extract
Historian
FRC Interval Data
REMCo
ETL
Telemetry
Reporting
Administrator
Report DB Maint
KF-2, Modbus,
RDL protocols
RTU
Old CITECT
Pressure sites A. Radio
PSTN
GSM
Extrane t
Communications
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External Users
Firewall
Extended
Reporting
Database
Load
Crystal
Reports
Heating values and weather
PDQ and PHQ(?)
CorDaptix
Bill
Calculation
Internal Users
Out of Scope
Network Users
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ODBC
OPC
DNP3
ORACLE KF MTU
IOSERVER
OPC
PI UDS
Citect
SCADA
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Tender process
Award contract
Design
Build & Config
FAT
Installation
Test
Cut-over
Go-Live
PROJECT TIMELINE
Sep-03 Oct-03 Nov-03 Dec-03 Jan-04 Feb-04 Mar-04 Apr-04 May-04 Jun-04 Jul-04
26th July
Market "go-live"
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• Go Live Day is firm
• Constantly changing rules
– Moving target
• Business not fully comprehending significance of scope
• Market not knowing what they wanted
• …Result…
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• Results..
– Interim solution
• Change management
• Ongoing PM
• Manual workarounds
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• DataLink Excel sheet:
– Fast Prototyping tool
– Easily understood by Origin’s BA’s
– One master sheet moved around
• BSVCS (Buffy’s Stake Version
Control System)
– BA’s could understand PI DB
– ACE could gradually replace
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• Optimisation
• AGA out of RTU into
ACE
• Hi Availability
• More sites…
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