Implementation of an Advanced Metering System and Integration
The Client
The client is a leading utility company in North America that supplies electricity to 12 million consumers.
Business Needs
- Regulatory mandate to launch Demand Response programs for large customers
- Provide real-time energy data for load curtailment through Internet-based suite of tools, allowing online access to usage information and detailed cost analyses of the customers' business energy use
- Leverage real-time Metering Infrastructure to create fee-based programs
Our Solution
- Development of in-house system components interfacing with in-house real-time metering systems
- Integration with Internet-based analytical products supplied by a leading AMI vendor
- Mainframe components - COBOL, CICS and DB2
- Secure FTP data transmissions, C++ components
- Customer notification system using third party vendor