The document discusses smart meters and advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) in the United States. It provides statistics on AMI installations through 2012, with 37 million completed and a projection of 65 million by 2015. The majority of installations have been by investor-owned utilities for residential customers. It then discusses how the value of smart meters may shift away from AMI towards other applications like outage management, demand management, and integrated distributed resources. The role of network "nodes" is discussed as a way to enable these distributed management applications by providing local processing, sensing, and routing capabilities at key points on the grid. Potential software applications that could be enabled by edge analytics and nodal networks are also outlined.
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The ICT industry is in the midst of a shift to a new technology platform for growth and innovation, a shift that occurs once every 20-25 years. IDC terms this the '3rd Platform' - built on mobile devices and apps, cloud services, mobile broadband networks, big data analytics, and social technologies.
By 2020, when the ICT industry reaches USD 5 trillion - USD 1.7 trillion larger than it is today - at least 80% of the industry's growth, and organisations' highest-value leverage of IT, will be driven by these 3rd Platform technologies. In addition, there'll be an explosion of new solutions built on the new platform and rapidly expanding consumption of 3rd Platform technologies in emerging markets.
Today, 3rd Platform technologies and the services around them generate only about 20% of all IT spending, but they are growing, collectively, at about 18% per year - six times the rate of the rest of the IT industry. As we look toward 2020, it's easy to see that these technologies will inevitably become the 80% of all IT spending.
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Evolving Enterprise Networks for Future Initiatives - The Importance of a Lif...DImension Data
Watch the video where IDC and Dimension Data explain these slides here: https://plus.google.com/u/0/events/cst8n88thku8for3odj6vihj8bs
The ICT industry is in the midst of a shift to a new technology platform for growth and innovation, a shift that occurs once every 20-25 years. IDC terms this the '3rd Platform' - built on mobile devices and apps, cloud services, mobile broadband networks, big data analytics, and social technologies.
By 2020, when the ICT industry reaches USD 5 trillion - USD 1.7 trillion larger than it is today - at least 80% of the industry's growth, and organisations' highest-value leverage of IT, will be driven by these 3rd Platform technologies. In addition, there'll be an explosion of new solutions built on the new platform and rapidly expanding consumption of 3rd Platform technologies in emerging markets.
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An increase in east-west traffic flows. Legacy data center networks are designed for traffic to flow from the edge of the network into the core and then back to the edge in a north-south direction. Today, however, factors such as workforce mobility, Hadoop, big data and other applications are driving east-west traffic flows from server to server.
Virtualization of other IT assets. Historically, compute resources such as processor, memory and storage were resident in the server itself. Over time, more and more of these resources are being put into “pools” that can be accessed on demand. In this case, the data center network becomes a “fabric” that acts as the backplane for the virtualized data center.
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Leidos Engineering, LLC
Jeffrey Norman
Vice President, Emerging Technologies
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Smart Meters in the United States thru 2012
*Source – US Energy Information Administration
37 million AMI installations thru 2012 – 65 million projected by 2015
77% by IOU’s - 90% residential
Type & Number of
Utilities with AMI
Number of AMI Installations by Customer Type
Residential Commercial Industrial Transportation Total
Investor
Owned
73 25,891,279 2,886,498 78,688 4 28,856,469
Cooperative 311 5,017,654 495,609 47,667 0 5,560,930
Municipal 84 1,116,675 149,323 4,870 0 1,270,868
Public & State 24 1,427,940 150,729 23,434 3 1,602,106
Totals 493 33,453,548 3,682,159 154,660 7 37,290,374
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Where do we focus as value shifts away from smart meters?
GROWING
Outage
Management
Customer
Initiated
Demand
Management
Advanced
System
Planning
Integrated
Distributed
Resources
Newly Envisioned Future
Full Range
Integrated System
Status Quo
Renewable
Integration
Asset
Management
AMI
Real Time
Demand
Forecasting
Distribution
Management
Low$BenefitHigh
1 Yr Immediate 5 Yrs Long Range 10 Yrs
Benefits Benefits
Next Steps… What drives Architecture ? Applications or …?
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What is a Node?
What Role could a Node play in enabling Distributed Management ?
Physical nexus for an integrated network
› WAN communications
› LAN communications modularity
(Wi-Fi, PLC, ERT)
› Distributed grid management enabled
by local processing and memory
› Energy sensing applications current,
voltage, power quality, power factor
*Source: Duke Energy, “Developing the Communications
Platform to Enable a More Intelligent Grid”
WAN = Wide Area Network; LAN = Local Area Network; Wi-Fi = wireless
fidelity; PLC = power line communication; ERT = encoder, receiver,
transmitter; RF = radio frequency; PEV = plug-in electric vehicle
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Benefits of Nodal Approach – Supports Multiple Functionalities
› Serves as a data aggregator for
end points - legacy and Smart
› Performs remote analytics and
appropriate control
› Provides short-term storage for
end-point and local analytics data
› Provides integrated input/output
options
› Provides embedded intelligence into
the grid itself at key locations
› Serves as a router that forwards data
between end devices, nodes, and
servers
› Serves as a gateway and performs
protocol conversion, as needed
Source: Duke Energy
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Edge Analytics to support Potential Software Applications
Application Description
Voltage Monitoring
Utilizes voltage sensing at the transformer and meter to generate exception
reports which indicate voltage regulation problems
Transformer Overload Monitoring
Monitors loading on transformers and provides real-time alerts when
transformer is overloaded
Remote Fault Detection
Three-phase line devices that measure current (amps) and identify the fault
current and location of a fault
Outage and Restoration Notification Remote and automated notification of power outages
Integrated Volt/Var Management
Ability to remotely configure and control capacitor banks and regulators to
achieve specific power factor and voltage objectives on the grid
Demand Response Event Management
Remote control of customer equipment to manage peak capacity and grid
operation issues
Street Light Monitoring Monitoring of streetlights to ensure they are operating appropriately
PEV Monitoring Remotely identify in real time where PEV vehicles may be located and charging
PEV = plug-in electric vehicle
