Business Technology Solutions AMI Advanced Metering Infrastructure Consumers

Business Technology Solutions AMI – Advanced Metering Infrastructure Consumers Energy Mark Ortiz March 9, 2011

Business Technology Solutions Interoperability – Why the Utility Cares AMI – Advanced Metering Infrastructure Rapid and evolving technology of the Smart Grid – Need solutions that could evolve over time without costly rip and replacement or costly upgrades Requires Integration – LOTS of integration – Onslaught of new applications and technologies § AMI, MDMS, HAN, DR, ADE, etc. Challenges in a complex IT environment – Many custom systems, legacy system and technologies – Typically departmentally controlled – within “silos” § Need ability to govern, manage, and share resources » Both Intra-Enterprise and Inter-Enterprise systems/applications © 2008 Consumers Energy Company Business Technology Solutions

Business Technology Solutions Main Goals AMI – Advanced Metering Infrastructure Common business processes Common architecture principles and patterns Common information model Common integration services (functional & informational) Tested interoperability between systems Business Technology Solutions 2

Business Technology Solutions Service Definition Process AMI – Advanced Metering Infrastructure Step 1 – Business Process Analysis Step 2 – Integration Requirements Detailed in Sequence Diagrams Step 3 – Service and Operation Pattern Applied Step 4 – Service and Information Object Identification and Harmonization Step 5 – Service Definition (Artifacts Generation & Testing) Business Technology Solutions 3

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Business Technology Solutions Key Architecture Considerations AMI – Advanced Metering Infrastructure Decoupling of end-point connections and business semantics Guaranteed delivery Managed integration End point compliance to common business semantics and syntax for information exchange to the public (enterprise) End point compliance to service patterns (interaction patterns, naming and structure patterns, and message exchange patterns) Minimal business logic and transformation within the integration layer Leverage IEC TC 57 WG 14 Interfaces Business Technology Solutions 5

Business Technology Solutions Step 1) Business Process Analysis AMI – Advanced Metering Infrastructure Created. Meter. Reading (Receive) Created. Meter. Reading (Send) Business Technology Solutions 6

Business Technology Solutions Step 2) Integration Requirements Detailed in Sequence Diagrams AMI – Advanced Metering Infrastructure 2) Integration with ESB WS WS Business Technology Solutions 7

Business Technology Solutions Step 3) Service & Operation Pattern Applied AMI – Advanced Metering Infrastructure Service name: – Follows <Service pattern name>+<Information Object> (such as “Send. Meter. Reading”/”Receive. Meter. Reading” ) Operation name: – <Operation pattern name>+<Information Object> (such as Created. Meter. Reading) Business Technology Solutions 8

Business Technology Solutions Model Driven Process - Based on an Enterprise Semantic Model AMI – Advanced Metering Infrastructure Existing Terminology and Metadata Controlled Vocabulary UML (i. e. wiki, data dictionary, etc. ) Business Technology Solutions 9 XML Schema

Business Technology Solutions Web Service Definition AMI – Advanced Metering Infrastructure Services defined in Web Service Description Language (WSDL). WSDL documents generated based on a standard template XSD decoupled from WSDL document (imported) for better maintenance and version control Business Technology Solutions 10

Business Technology Solutions Standards Development AMI – Advanced Metering Infrastructure Industry Working Groups – Open. SG § Chair Open. AMI-Ent, Ent-Conformance – SGIP Testing and Certification Committee Recent standards development and feedback – IEC TC 57 WG 14 § Meter Reading & Control Part 9 - 2. 0 Industry Working § IEC 61968 Part 1 and 1 -2 Groups – Zig. Bee Smart Energy Profile 2. 0 – NAESB SSLC Vision Smart Services Learning Center – Virtual Smart Grid for Standards Development Organizations End-to-End assessment and validation © 2008 Consumers Energy Company Business Technology Solutions 11 Proprietary and Confidential

Business Technology Solutions Interoperability - The IEC CIM is the Basis for a Common Systems Language for the Smart Grid AMI – Advanced Metering Infrastructure Work & • Customer Information MDM/MDUS Applications Enterprise ic at io • Billing Ap pl CIM Management ris e • Outage te rp Management En The same dictionary is used for multiple forms of system communication: – Open. AMI-Ent – Open. ADE – Open. ADR – SEP 2. 0 – Etc. ns Asset Automated Data Exchange One Dictionary Supports Many Forms of Communication Op De m en HA an d © 2008 Consumers Energy Company Business Technology Solutions N, SE P 2. 0, sp on se Re 12

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