Technical and operation considerations in using Smart Metering for outage management

Author

Tram, Hahn

Author_Institution

Enspiria Solutions, Greenwood Village, CO

fYear

2008

fDate

21-24 April 2008

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

Smart metering via an advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) has been a hot trend in the utility industry the last five years in response to EPACT and promises of the AMI technologies to enable enhanced customer services and greater energy efficiencies. According to informal surveys at automated meter reading association (AMRA), utilities consider the use of AMI to improve outage management and service reliability the highest priority behind the meter to bill process. However, many utilities have experienced negative business impacts after they integrated AMI and outage management system (OMS) due to deficiencies of AMI, OMS, data, and/or integrated business processes. This paper discusses the technical and operational considerations necessary to make the AMI-OMS integration successful.

Keywords

customer services; metering; advanced metering infrastructure; automated meter reading association; customer services; integrated business processes; outage management system; service reliability; smart metering; Ambient intelligence; Availability; Communication networks; Communications technology; Contracts; Costs; Customer satisfaction; Delay; Productivity; Telecommunication network reliability; Advanced Metering Infrastructure; Outage Management; Reliability; Smart Metering;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Transmission and Distribution Conference and Exposition, 2008. T&D. IEEE/PES

Conference_Location

Chicago, IL

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1903-6

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-1904-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/TDC.2008.4517273

Filename

4517273