As economies scale to meet the ever surging demand for electricity, there are several challenges and issues faced by the power generating and distribution companies at various levels:
Power generation
Ensure efficient functioning of power generating units by effectively monitoring and managing various power plant controllers and devices
Power Transmission and Distribution
Ensure efficient power transmission and distribution management by effectively monitoring, managing and controlling the power distribution network
Remote communicable measuring and monitoring devices integrated with standard software programmable interfaces provide several power management and automation solutions for efficient power distribution management. However there is a need for these solutions to be able to work with existing systems and new systems seamlessly with minimal interruption of existing setup.
Standards and Service Oriented Architecture based SOALayers platform from SOAMatrix can provide solutions to help the power generating, transmission and distribution companies in achieving the following:
- Building custom transports/connectors to communicate with several measuring and monitoring devices, controllers and appliances over standard communication protocols
- Controlling measuring and monitoring devices, controllers and appliances from a remote location (for example, switching ON & OFF devices/controllers/appliances, performing remote load shedding)
- Configure custom policies and actions while measuring, monitoring and collecting data from various devices (for example, voltage, current, energy and power factor)
- Real Time customizable alerts/notification on critical events (for example, high voltage/current flow conditions, excess energy consumption by the transformer owing to power theft) with an ability to dynamically switch over to either SMS, Email or IVRS at runtime.
- Configurable scheduler for automatic scheduling of data collection frequencies from devices, controllers and appliances
- Flexible rule engine to define business rules (for example, rate calculations, late payment calculations and so on)
- Seamlessly integrate with systems like billing, payment gateways, bill payment kiosks
- Integration of power distribution network with GIS system for effective power distribution management
- Flexible Reporting engine for performing energy accounting and energy audits
- Highly scalable platform with built in support for high availability, failover and load balancing
- Security enforcement and compliance to avoid data tampering
- Improvement in overall Quality of Service (QoS) by Improved availability of quality power to domestic, commercial, industrial and agricultural (IP) consumers
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