Itron Meter Data Management With Microsoft

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Itron Meter Data ManagementSolution Overview

The Itron Meter Data Management (MDM) application is a highly scalable

solution that provides utilities with the ability to manage metering and othe

utility-operated data in one place. When it is paired with Microsoft SQL Ser

2008 R2 data management software, utilities gain a high-availability soluti

that supports utilities’ most demanding mission-critical needs at a low totacost of ownership (TCO).

The New World of Metering

Regulators and consumers alike are pressuring utility-industry companies

to change the way they monitor and report electric, gas, and water

consumption so they can better address environmental and efciency

concerns. More importantly, utilities are beginning to realize the operatio

savings they

can achieve from smart meters and related processes.

To achieve maximum value, utilities need their new automated metering

and business systems to:

• Be integrated at the utility and the home or business.

• Provide enterprise-class, mission-critical data management to:

- Handle the torrent of information as data management goes fro

gigabytes to petabytes, with smart meters collecting data at

intervals as short as a minute.

- Validate and distribute smart-meter data for various needs,

including billing and pricing.

With the right software, utilities can streamline operations, provide better

pricing models, and improve purchasing decisions for customers, while th

make their own businesses more protable.

Value Proposition

he Itron Meter Data Management solution usesMicrosoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Enterprise as its

atabase foundation. This combined solution

elivers extraordinary value to utilities, which gain

n advanced metering infrastructure and management

olution that supports the most intensive mission-

ritical needs at a low TCO.

Solution Benefits

ogether, Itron MDM and SQL Server 2008 R2 provide

xceptional benefits to utilities:

Enterprise-class scalability, security, and performance

to handle massive amounts of AMI data

Low total cost of ownership

Improved operational efficiency through streamlined

processes

Ability to offer dynamic new pricing models

mpressive Benchmark Results

enchmark testing confirms the unparalleled

calability of Itron MDM on SQL Server 2008 R2

howing the ability to support a 10 million-meter

tility. For more information about the Itron

enchmark, please go to www.microsoft.com/utilities

About Itron

ron, a leading provider of smart metering, data

ollection, and utility software systems, delivers

olutions to help more than 8,000 utilities worldwide

ptimize the delivery and use of energy and water.

ron, which holds a Microsoft Gold ISV competency,

rovides utilities with electricity, gas, water and heat

meters; network communication technology; collection

ystems; and related software.

About The Microsoft WorldwidePower & Utilities Group

Microsoft’s Worldwide Power and Utilities Group offers

latform and partner solutions to empower utilities to

hrive in today’s dynamic environment by opt imizing

usiness operations in customer care, generation,

ransmission and distribution, regulatory compliance

nd enterprise services.

www.microsoft.com/utilities



The Itron MDM solution uses the Microsoft platform, including SQL Server 2008 R2, to help ensure that it interoperates with a variety of systems. With this

solution, people can work across traditional data boundaries and get streamlined access to information.

Itron Meter Data Management

Itron & Microsoft in Smart Metering

OMS Billing

Customer ServiceField Service/

Work Management

DistributionOperations

DataWarehouse

IT SystemsManagement

AssetManagement

Configuration

Management

Universal Calculation Engine Validation Estimation

& Editing EngineCollection System

Integration

Analytic &

Operational Reports

Reading, Event

& Tamper Interfaces Integration

APIs

Operational Systems |

Web Service Interfaces

Legacy Flat File Interfaces

High performance, user

configurable calculation

services

Flexible VEE rules engine

and data versioning for SarBoxHigh scale residential,

commercial and

industrial metering

repository. Proven

scalability to over 5million hourly AMI

meters.Web Service Interfaces

Legacy Flat File Interfaces

Current and future line-of-business systems

Collection Systems | Out-of-the-box support for all major EMR,AMT and AMI system Vendors

Walk-by MeterReading

ItronOpenWay

AMI

ItronMV-90xi

PLCAMI System

Future CollectionSystems




Support for the Most Intensive, Mission-Critical Needs

“Microsoft and Itron were able to verify that this data management architecture does, in fact,

meet and exceed all the required performance and scalability demands necessary to satisfy the

real-world operations of a large utility with upwards of 20 million residential AMI hourly interva

meters. Working together, Itron and Microsoft provide real business value through a exibly

scalable solution with a lower total cost of ownership.”

—Julie Steury, Senior Director of Global Software Development, Itron

Microsoft and Itron have partnered to deliver advanced solutions with the highest level of benets and performance for

the utility industry. This collaboration includes the alignment of Itron development to Microsoft’s Smart Energy Reference

Architecture (SERA). Microsoft SERA provides a prescriptive architecture for partners and utilities to deliver solutions based on

agile, secure, and familiar platform. This approach enables integration throughout the smart-energy ecosystem and creates the

ntegrated utility of the future. SERA also addresses the key capabilities across the full utility value chain, including AMI and me

data management. Based on common standards and interoperability, SERA provides a foundation to plug thousands of smart

devices into the smart grid, which further aligns to the value that Itron, together with Microsoft, delivers to the market.

By taking advantage of SERA best practices and SQL Server 2008 R2 as the database foundation, utilities can realize a lower to

cost of ownership and time-to-value while deploying and running Itron MDM. In addition, businesses benet from SQL Server

2008 R2 features such as failover clustering, table partitioning, advanced data compression, and database mirroring. SQL Serv2008 R2 also delivers 99.999 percent availability, ease of use, and interoperability with familiar Microsoft productivity software,

such as Microsoft SharePoint 2010 and Microsoft Ofce, including Excel spreadsheet software. Because Itron MDM runs on the

Microsoft platform, companies can use the same IT support staff they use for the rest of their Microsoft infrastructure to reduc

their training and maintenance costs while gaining the benets of Itron MDM.

For more information about SQL Server 2008 R2 and its lower price-to-performance ratio, see: www.microsoft.com/sqlserver/en/us/product-info/benchmarks.aspx.

For more information about SQL Server 2008 R2 and its advanced data management and BI tools, see: www.microsoft.com/sqlserver/en/us/editions/enterprise.aspx

Itron Meter Data Management and Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Enterprise

Microsoft and Itron have partnered to create the technology systems that utilities need to make the most of smart-meter data

ows. The Itron Meter Data Management solution is a highly scalable, open-architecture, enterprise application that manages

nterval, register, and event data in a central repository. The Itron application supports a comprehensive list of advanced meter

nfrastructure (AMI) and automated meter reading systems for commercial and industrial (C&I) and residential markets. As a

result, utilities improve operational efciency, customer service, and distribution automation.

The Itron MDM solution runs on the Microsoft platform and uses SQL Server 2008 R2 Enterprise as its database foundation. By

using SQL Server 2008 R2, customers benet from a database solution that has fewer vulnerabilities than others and delivers f

data processing at a lower price to-performance ratio than other platforms.1 It also offers advanced business intelligence (BI)

ools right out of the box2—with no need to buy more products.




Benets of the Itron and Microsoft Solution

• Reduces cost and time to gather, reconcile, and validate

meter data from multiple collection systems.

• Provides enterprise-class scalability and performance to

handle massive volumes of complex AMI data.

• Lowers the total cost of ownership of data management—

from reducing upfront costs to minimizing expenses for

deployment and ongoing support.

• Provides higher quality data through the operation of a

single, purpose-built data repository accessible across

enterprise systems.

• Improves the reliability, security, and consistency of meter

data for billing, operational systems, and analytics.

• Reduces errors associated with increased data collection a

intervals.

• Interfaces with a variety of analytical software.

• Improves operational efciency by securing data that is

audited and easily accessible to the enterprise.

• Insulates the utility’s business systems from the details of

metering/meter reading in a multi-technology environme

• Enables utilities to develop programs from a new dynamic

pricing model that encourages the efcient consumption

energy.

• Scalable, open architecture

Provides an enterprisewide solution that manages interval,

register, and event data in a central repository for residential

and C&I customers that want to control large amounts of

data for use in multiple systems.

• Highly secure, centralized data environment

Offers an environment that reduces the likelihood of errors

in business processes that use meter data. Itron MDMeasily interfaces with existing billing systems and analysis

tools for complex billing, customer care, demand response,

distribution optimization and design, and revenue assurance.

This means companies can deploy a cost-effective data

management system without affecting existing operating

and business processes.

• Advanced metering infrastructure

Itron MDM integrates seamlessly with Itron smart-grid

solutions to offer an open-standards approach to AMI

that gives utilities the ability to readily support multiple

applications throughout a highly secure network with

advanced management capabilities. The Itron smart-grid

solution provides full two-way communication to each

meter, multichannel interval data collection, integrated m

market demand response, a built-in communication pathto residential and C&I customers, and extensive smart-gr

features.

Key Features of the Itron Meter Data Management Solution

Key Features of the Itron Meter Data Management Solution:

Supporting Resources

For more information about Itron and Microsoft products and services, visit the company websites:

www.itron.com | www.microsoft.com

For more information on Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2, see:

www.microsoft.com/sqlserver/en/us/solutions-technologies.aspx | www.microsoft.com/sqlserver/en/us/editions/enterprise.as

www.microsoft.com/sqlserver/en/us/product-info/benchmarks.aspx


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