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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.
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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
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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.
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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
www.microsoft.com/utilities