The design of outage management system utilizing meter information based on AMI (Advanced Metering Infrastructure) system

This The project, "Development of MDMS (Meter Data Management System) and SUN (Smart energy Utility Network)", as one of the core technology development projects for electric power industry which is funded by Ministry of Knowledge Economy, stands for the establishment of AMI system. AMI system is a core infra system for the implementation of Smart Grid system, and is a main mechanism for the realization of Demand Response based on the bi-directional communication between demand and supply. AMI system is also an intelligent infra system having a high priority for operation of future Smart Grid such as information interaction among various distributed power systems and intelligent DMS. The establishment of AMI system suffers from problems due to a huge number of outage events and real time response for those events. These problems necessitate the efficient outage management system (OMS). OMS is one of the best methodologies to show the influence of AMI system efficiently and visually. This implies the reduction of the recovering time caused from outage by the reduction of outage recognition time and the improvement of outage data quality, and also means efficient provision of information created from the introduction of AMI system. For the future, OMS based on AMI system is necessary and this study makes a contribution to solution and technology of the system.