Maximize your advanced metering
infrastructure return-on-investment
Simplified, out-of-the-box meter data management integration
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Siemens EnergyIP AMI Adapter features:
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Outage
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Workforce
Management
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Customer
Information
System
Communication
Network
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Provision and synchronization processes
The EnergyIP Platform and AMI Adapter synchronize
enterprise-level system-of-record information with
head-end systems and meters, and automated updates
of this information ensure continuous data accuracy
while minimizing system maintenance requirements.
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Manage device control transactions
The AMI Adapter can request device control transactions,
with responses received remotely via EnergyIP’s activity
gateway or graphical user interface, enabling operations
management functions including connects / disconnects,
on-demand reads, power status verifications and meter
pings to be executed manually or automatically within
other enterprise applications.
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Advanced metering infrastructures:
the integration challenge
Smart meters are a tremendous source of data for utilities
worldwide. And, an advanced metering infrastructure (AMI)
is the critical link that makes it possible to deliver that data
to a utility’s enterprise and meter data management systems
(MDMS). But it’s critical that the data is accurate, and that can
be a complex, costly and time-consuming challenge to put in
place—from design to development and testing—especially
when a utility has multiple AMI head-end systems installed.
What’s needed is an out-of-the-box AMI integration approach
that simplifies the transmission of meter data from AMI
head-end systems to enterprise systems.
Why choose Siemens EnergyIP AMI Adapter?
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Gain insights with timely, accurate meter data
Siemens EnergyIP® AMI Adapter seamlessly integrates
head-end systems with Siemens EnergyIP Grid Application
Platform and MDMS. The AMI Adapter supports two-way
communication between the AMI head-end systems, and
ensures data is processed accurately—including data from
multiple head-end systems—and sent to the EnergyIP
platform where it is leveraged for asset management
systems, customer information systems (CIS), outage
management systems and workforce management
systems. With Siemens out-of-the-box AMI EnergyIP
Adapter applications the data can be leveraged into
timely, actionable insights for utility operators.
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Keep your system up-to-date
While AMI head-end systems perform software releases/
updates once or twice a year, the EnergyIP AMI Adapter’s
definitions are automatically updated as they’re released.
This feature reduces the operational burden on utility
professionals that comes with updating firmware
definitions for head-end systems and adapters that
connect to back-end systems.
Pre-testing reduces errors
Siemens AMI Adapters are pretested against generic
head-end system implementations. Siemens partners
with AMI providers to ensure efficient and timely testing
of the head-end system prior to release, significantly
reducing potential data mapping and operational errors.
Seamlessly manage multiple vendor systems
Maintenance agreements ensure any bugs found in the
AMI Adapter are repaired, and Siemens provides expert
help in addressing integration issues that may result from
working with multiple vendor products.
Schedule regular meter reads
The AMI Adapter receives scheduled meter reads as files
or via CIM or MultiSpeak web service interfaces, and then
processes them via independent ports and queues.
Scheduling meter reads ensures they have minimal
impact on overall platform performance.
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Flexible device event reporting
Siemens EnergyIP Platform and AMI Adapter support
real-time or batched device event reporting, delivered
via web services or as a file.
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Elster Energy Axis Management System (EAMS)
Proprietary, file-based meter reading and MultiSpeak 3
provisioning, event handling and device control interfaces
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GridNet PolicyNet
Proprietary web service integration solution to support
meter reading, provisioning, device control transactions
and event handling
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Itron
Two Itron systems/integration solutions are supported:
OpenWay interfaces use proprietary web services to
support meter reading, provisioning, device control
transactions and event handling, and Itron
semiautomatic or manual meter reading solutions
use the proprietary Itron Common Meter Reading
Format file exporter
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Landis+Gyr Command Center adapter
Supports CMEP file-based meter reading format, with
device control, provisioning and events handled either
with MultiSpeak 3 or IEC61968-9 edition1 interfaces
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Sensus Flexnet Regional Network Interface (RNI)
Supports MultiSpeak 4 interfaces for meter reading,
provisioning, device control transactions and
event handling
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Silver Spring Networks UtilityIQ adapter
Supports proprietary web service interfaces for meter
reading, provisioning, device control transactions
and event handling
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SmartSynch Transaction Management System
(TMS) adapter
Supports CMEP meter reading file processing and
MultiSpeak 3 device control transactions and
event handling
Siemens EnergyIP AMI Adapter: the cost-effective solution
A robust AMI adapter ecosystem helps utilities cut costs by
efficiently managing smart metering data. In fact, a utility
with two or more head-end systems can save as much as
60% of the costs associated with managing integration with
head-end systems and maintaining data quality, yielding
savings of at least one dollar per meter per year.
Supported systems:
Siemens EnergyIP AMI Adapter supports these head-end
systems, and we continue to add new systems as the
market evolves:
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Aclara TWACS Net Server (TNS) 2.8 adapter
File-based register reads processing adapter
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Industry standards-compliant
Included CIM IEC61968-9 and MultiSpeak libraries
accelerate development and improve final adapter quality
for head-end systems that support these standards.
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Cooper Industries Yukon System
MultiSpeak 3 integration implementation that supports
meter reading, provisioning, device control transactions
and event handling
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Software-driven flexible, scalable approach
The AMI Adapter software development kit (SDK) ensures
flexibility and scalability that easily supports the operational
transactions that may be produced by as many as tens of
millions of meters.
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Echelon Networked Energy System (NES)
Proprietary head-end system interface to support meter
reading, provisioning, device control transactions and
event handling
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This document contains a general description of available
technical options. Any specific solution(s) will be based on a
client’s particular requirements and will be addressed in the
contract for the project.
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