Listen to Your Meters! Pradeep Murthy SunTec Business Solutions

All rights reserved © 2008, SunTec SunTec Confidential Are You Listening To Your Meters? Current system Bill Bill payment Persistent challenges in the current system Ability to avoid load shedding by encouraging demand side management Ability to detect meter tampering Ability to manage outages effectively Ability to plan ahead for future energy requirements Billing

All rights reserved © 2008, SunTec SunTec Confidential Deliver the right data to the right system in the right format at the right time? Need of the hour Collect meter data records automatically in both real-time and batch modes from different sources Keep in a single data repository with proper edit log Conduct proper validation, estimation and editing Provide more accurate, timely data to all third party systems Prepare the billing determinants for complex billing Do Load Profiling of industrial & high value customers Generate MIS reports based on meters, revenue protection alerts etc.

All rights reserved © 2008, SunTec SunTec Confidential AMR Network Prevent Powercuts through Load Management Interval meter data Time of use pricing Prompt for usage in off-peak timings Consumption reports Daily load profile data Aggregated metered data Meter data processing Pricing & Billing system

All rights reserved © 2008, SunTec SunTec Confidential Managing Outages Effectively Real time event data Outage alert Corrective action Rectification confirmation Outage analysis AMR Network Meter data processing Outage management system

All rights reserved © 2008, SunTec SunTec Confidential Preventing Power Theft AMR Network Meter data processing Outage management system Interval Meter data Tamper event alerts Usage pattern/event analysis Tampering alert Manual corrective action Tampering

All rights reserved © 2008, SunTec SunTec Confidential Better Planning to Meet Future Energy Requirements AMR Network Meter data processing Usage analysis & reporting Load forecasting Energy auditing and accounting Load management Pricing plan (Season based/time based)

All rights reserved © 2008, SunTec SunTec Confidential Processing the Meter Data Fraud management Energy Auditing Load Forecasting Rate Analysis Outage management Pricing& Billing MDM Data Repository Data Import Data Validation Data Estimation & Editing Data Aggregation & Collation Processing MDM Data Transformation Manually read meters Handheld Smart metering Manually Read Meter Networks AMI/AMR Meter Networks Scalability, Flexibility, Data Integrity and Timeliness taken for granted

All rights reserved © 2008, SunTec SunTec Confidential Features of MDM Smart Meter Data Collection Collect Meter Data from various meter types and technologies Manage Meter History Automatic Schedule for Meter data collection Validation, Estimation & Editing Industry Standard Validation, estimation & editing logic GUI for changing the validation & estimation rule Provide manual editing of meter data Security of meter data Option to view audit trails of the validation-estimation-editing Change tracking Version control Interface Standard File Format for other Back office systems Data Aggregation & Collation Prepare the billing determinants as per pricing mechanism Prepares different formats of data for other applications Consumer Load Profiling Daily Load Profiling of Consumer in both tabular & graphical visualization Reports Standard Reports such as high/low usage, meter tempered reports for revenue protection, Outage alerts reports etc

All rights reserved © 2008, SunTec SunTec Confidential Key Benefits Provide appropriate data to multiple applications/ business functions in suitable formats, quickly, efficiently and in a repeatable fashion Streamline meter data flows within the back-end system landscape Introduce AMR/AMI without necessitating changes to legacy backend systems such as billing Make significant cost savings Error-free billing Timely outage management Consumption analysis and accurate forecasting Conduct real-time load profiling by utilizing the high throughput transaction processing core

All rights reserved © 2008, SunTec SunTec Confidential Thank You for Listening to Me(ter)!