Highlights of the new value proposition for metering personnel at their respective utility companies in a post-AMI world. Examples of issues which have arisen or been identified over the course of various deployments and in the immediate aftermath of an AMI deployment.
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Highlights of the new value proposition for metering personnel at their respective utility companies in a post-AMI world. Examples of issues which have arisen or been identified over the course of various deployments and in the immediate aftermath of an AMI deployment.
Presented at EEI 2013.
As many utilities have elected to deploy advanced metering systems and millions of new solid-state, microprocessor based end-points with communications under glass, a dramatic shift has begun regarding where metering resources are being deployed and what they are doing.
This presentation will highlight the new value proposition for metering personnel at their respective utility companies in a post-AMI World.
Examples of issues which have arisen or been identified over the course of various deployments and in the immediate aftermath of an AMI deployment.
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This presentation will highlight the new value proposition for metering personnel at their respective utility companies in a post-AMI World.
Examples of issues which have arisen or been identified over the course of various deployments and in the immediate aftermath of an AMI deployment.
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Examples of issues which have arisen or been identified over the course of various deployments and in the immediate aftermath of an AMI deployment.
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Examples of issues which have arisen or been identified over the course of various deployment
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Examples of issues which have arisen or been identified over the course of various deployments and in the immediate aftermath of an AMI deployment.
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Examples of issues which have arisen or been identified over the course of various deployments and in the immediate aftermath of an AMI deployment.
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Examples of issues which have arisen or been identified over the course of various deployment
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Highlights of the new value proposition for metering personnel at their respective utility companies in a post-AMI world. Examples of issues which have arisen or been identified over the course of various deployments and in the immediate aftermath of an AMI deployment.
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Meter Operations in a Post AMI World
1. 4/29/2013 Slide 110/02/2012 Slide 1
Meter Operations in a Post
AMI World
Notes from the Field
Prepared by Rob Reese,TESCO
for the SWEMA Spring Conference 2013
2. 4/29/2013 Slide 2
Abstract
• As many utilities have elected to deploy advanced metering systems
and millions of new solid-state, microprocessor based end-points
with communications under glass, a dramatic shift has begun
regarding where metering resources are being deployed and what
they are doing.
• This presentation will highlight the new value proposition for
metering personnel at their respective utility companies in a post-
AMI World.
• Examples of issues which have arisen or been identified over the
course of various deployments and in the immediate aftermath of an
AMI deployment.
3. 4/29/2013 Slide 3
Pre-AMI Meter Operations
• Fewer meter techs in the field and in the shop than
there were 25 years ago
• Fewer Field checks and site verifications due to lack
of personnel, lack of experience and lack of
expertise
• More features under glass in the meters even before
AMI deployed
• Significantly more features under glass in every
AMR and AMI system being considered or being
deployed
• Metering losses starting to be identified “by accident”
as opposed to being “by design”.
Common Features and Common Sources of Concern
4. 4/29/2013 Slide 4
The Pendulum Starts to Move
• Meter Operations. Prior to deployment many larger utilities take an
attitude of “this is only metering – how hard can that be?”. Over the
course of deployment Meter Operations gains a stature and a respect
from the rest of the organization that was not previously accorded them –
even if this is only begrudging respect.
• New tests for AMI meters (e.g. communication,
disconnect) are identified
• The complexity and issues around high revenue
metering are at least acknowledged by the rest
of the organization
• Tests which have not been performed in years
are suddenly back in vogue
5. 4/29/2013 Slide 5
The New Realities
• Electro-Mechanical Meters typically lasted 30 years and more. Electronic
AMI meters are typically envisioned to have a life span of fifteen years and
given the pace of technology advances in metering are not expected to last
much longer than this.
• This means entire systems are envisioned to be exchanged every fifteen
years or so. In the interim the meter population and communication network
inherent in the infrastructure for each utility must be maintained.
• Meter communication and meter data
management are becoming as important to
metering operations as meter accuracy.
• Firmware upgrades, firmware stability and
cyber security are becoming increasingly
important to metering departments
6. 4/29/2013 Slide 6
Expected & Unexpected Trends at the
End of Deployment
Expected:
• The AMI deployment team will declare victory at some point and move on.
Clean-up will be left for the meter service department
• Change Management continues to be a tremendous challenge for every
vendor through every deployment
• Meter Acceptance testing including far more than accuracy testing for every
deployment
• Firmware upgrades must be checked and tested before mass deployment
Unexpected:
• Not all forms are available by the end of
deployment and must be installed as
part of normal operations by the meter
service department
• Meter Certification Testing never slowed
down over the course of any of the
deployments
7. 4/29/2013 Slide 7
Why do AMI meters fail?
Looking back at various deployments – what are the chief
causes to reject meter shipments?
Meter functional test failures including but not limited to;
• Incorrect firmware
• Bad settings
• Alarms and errors that do not clear
• Communication test failures
• Bad tables
• Failed disconnect switches
8. 4/29/2013 Slide 8
Lessons for the future?
• Are these infant mortality issues or are these issues to be concerned about
going forward?
• What was NEVER the reason for rejecting a shipment – meter accuracy.
• Which are the most difficult meters for every deployment – the transformer
rated meters. Often these forms are not available until very late in the
deployment and sometimes not until the deployment has officially ended.
9. 4/29/2013 Slide 9
• Most AMI deployments utilize third party contractors to handle the
residential and some self contained non-2S services. The balance are
typically handled by the meter service department of the utility.
• No AMI deployment has used the AMI communication network to handle the
communication with the largest customer meters. The risk from even a
short term interruption of communication or loss of data far outweighs to
benefit of meters which are already being communicated with daily or even
several times a day.
• As these services are evaluated for new metering technology issues are
being found at some accounts. These issues represent revenue losses due
to inappropriate metering schemes or partially failed metering components
(e.g. transformers, electronic components).
Commercial and Industrial Metering Challenges
10. 4/29/2013 Slide 10
• Metering is becoming more about IT. Some metering departments have
been reorganized after AMI as part of the IT department.
• Metering emphasis will shift strongly toward C&I customers and further and
further away from residential meters
• Metering resources are being refocused on C&I accounts.
• There are fewer levels of meter tech. Every meter tech needs to be at the
higher level as there is not enough lower level work to warrant full time
employees
• Utility commissions are being less forgiving of allowing rate relief for project
over runs and metering inaccuracies
How are these new realities starting to affect
metering operations?
11. 4/29/2013 Slide 11
• Responsible for either reviewing ANSI Tests or even performing some of
these ANSI Tests
• Perform Meter Functionality testing on new and returned AMI meters
• Register and communication module energy measurement comparison
• Disconnect/Reconnect Functionality
• Outage Performance
• Meter Communications Performance
• Consumer safety and combating real and perceived issues
• Near continuous research into the “next” technology and the next
deployment
New or expanded roles for metering
departments of all sizes
12. 4/29/2013 Slide 12
• Accuracy testing
• Meter Communications
Performance
• Software and firmware
verification
• Setting verification
• Functional testing
• Disconnect/reconnect
Functionality
and as left setting
Shop Testing
13. 4/29/2013 Slide 13
Field Testing
• Accuracy testing
• Meter Communications Performance
• Software and firmware verification
• Setting verification
• Functional testing
• Disconnect/reconnect Functionality
and as left setting
• Tamper Verification
• Site Audits appropriate to the type
of meter
14. 4/29/2013 Slide 14
RMA’s, Root Cause Analysis and
In Service Testing
No one knows the actual life of their AMI meter. To do this we must learn as much as we
can from the failures and the performance of the meters we have deployed.
Opportunities to learn:
• Meters returned from the field as bad or flagged on incoming inspection. These
RMA’s need to be tracked not only for warranty purposes but more importantly to
understand the root cause of the issues.
• In Service Test programs need to be utilized to
understand the overall performance of AMI meters and as
failures are identified these meters need to be dissected
and the failure mode understood. If necessary, once the
failure mode is understood the meter population may
need to also be dissected to identify sub-groups of meter
that may be similarly affected. This could be a group of
meters
• from the same shipment,
• that were deployed in the same geographic area,
• that saw the same type of usage or environment.
15. 4/29/2013 Slide 15
Post-deployment Needs
• Once deployment is complete the certification and acceptance testing does
not stop.
• Everyone understands the importance of acceptance testing, but future
generations of a smart meter also require certification testing.
• New software and firmware needs to be tested and compared against the
performance of older generations.
• New hardware must be tested and compared to older generations.
• Firmware upgrades need to be checked
• New head end systems or IT protocols need to be tested against a large
group of meters before going live.
16. 4/29/2013 Slide 16
Real Life Examples of Change
Management in Action
• Issues in the system not the components – what is the definition of a meter and when
did the meter change?
– Meter and communication device interface
• Feature Creep – every manufacturer wants to differentiate themselves – sometimes
this works in unanticipated ways
– Recovery from power outages
– Short and long demand periods
• But we only changed….lessons we
should have learned from Microsoft
– Over the air upgrades
• Thank Goodness for test plans – right?
– Half closed disconnect devices
– Disconnect devices of unknown state
– Meters with incorrect firmware
17. 4/29/2013 Slide 17
Summary
• The focus is on far more than accuracy
• The meter man of the future knows not only metering but they are
communication experts and are involved with handling, reporting and
analyzing far more customer and system data
• There are fewer “routine jobs” in the field and many of the standard tasks are
no longer required. This will lead to fewer classifications of meter techs
going forward and the need for a more highly trained tech.
• Each Utility must take a far more active role as part of checking, certifying,
and rechecking the functionality of their meters.
• Metering will be in a near constant cycle of looking for the next technology,
evaluating those technologies, planning for deploying these technologies,
and cleaning up the aftermath of the deployment of these technologies.
18. 4/29/2013 Slide 18
Questions and Discussion
Rob Reese
TESCO – The Eastern Specialty Company
Bristol, PA
1-800-762-8211
This presentation can also be found under Meter
Conferences and Schools on the TESCO web
site: www.tesco-advent.com