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Did You Hear?
Pertinent Market News Over the Last Month
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The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced the members of its newly-established Electricity Advisory Committee. The 30 inaugural members will serve one- or two-year terms and include some of the nation’s top public and private sector leaders in electricity policy, planning and operations. The Committee was established to provide counsel to the Department on long-range planning and priorities for the modernization of the Nation’s electricity delivery infrastructure. Ralph Masiello, Senior Vice President at KEMA, was among the inaugural members appointed to the Advisory Committee.
eMeter, a provider of meter data management (MDM) enterprise software to electric, gas, and water utilities, announced the launch of its IntegratedMDM Program with Cellnet+Hunt, CURRENT Technologies, Eka Systems, Elster Group, Sensus Metering, and Trilliant Inc. "The purpose of eMeter's IntegratedMDM Program is to enable tighter cooperation and future interoperability between a leading independent MDM and multiple AMI technologies," said Larsh Johnson, eMeter CTO. Under the program, each of the AMI companies independently agreed to cooperate in the integration of their AMI technology with the EnergyIP software.
Itron Inc. and Silver Spring Networks have agreed to integrate Itron’s OpenWay Advanced Metering platform with Silver Spring’s IP-based Smart Energy Networking solution. Under the terms of the agreement, the companies have addressed the technical, functional, and solution delivery issues required to deliver a complete, fully supported Advanced Metering and Meter Data Management Solution with end-to-end IP connectivity.
In a collaboration with seven utility companies, SAP AG announced a joint effort to integrate AMI with Enterprise technology. The formation of the SAP AMI Lighthouse Council demonstrates a commitment to a new AMI approach that aims to achieve integration of end-to-end processes between the meter and the backend systems and to reduce a company's total cost of ownership for AMI infrastructure. For the past nine months, the SAP AMI Lighthouse Council—comprising CenterPoint Energy, CLP Power Hong Kong Limited, Consumers Energy, Energy East, Florida Power & Light, Oklahoma Gas & Electric, and Public Service Electric & Gas - has been shaping the integration of SAP solutions with AMI solutions for business processes, including customer relationship and billing and enterprise asset management. The SAP AMI Lighthouse Council also includes several strategic vendors, eMeter, Itron and OSIsoft. These vendors offer meter data unification and synchronization solutions that act as a powerful hub for meter and event data between AMI systems and the downstream SAP solutions.
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Download the April 2008 Issue
Use the link below to download the PDF of the full issue of the April 2008 Automation Insight for the complete print versions of the articles.
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[download] Automation Insight - April 2008 (.pdf 157 kb)
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