(Source: Business Wire)
eMeter Corporation, the global leader in Smart Grid Management software,
announced today successful benchmark testing for 20 million smart meters
with EnergyIP, eMeter's flagship Meter Data Management product. At over
four times the scale of any other industry benchmark, the tests prove
the ability of EnergyIP to handle all points of data transfer and
processing in real-time for the largest grid management deployments;
including the capability to generate all billing determinants by 9am to
enable same day bill printing and mailing.
Performed at IBM's Innovation Center for Business Partners in San Mateo,
California, testing was done with a full multi-tenancy configuration,
the most complex large-scale extended enterprise scenario. In
multi-tenancy configurations, a single system serves the requirements of
multiple utilities or individual regions of a very large utility. These
utility organizations are becoming increasingly common as the Smart Grid
takes shape. For example, American Electric Power (AEP,) is serving
Kansas, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Ohio, Oklahoma,
Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and West Virginia, through multiple
operating companies, or Canada's IESO which provides centralized
metering services for more than 80 distribution companies within Ontario
Province. eMeter is at the forefront of enabling this industry trend
supporting customers in North America, Europe and the Asia Pacific
region. This testing validates eMeter's ability to support billing based
on interval meter data as these large-scale Smart Grid deployments
continue to grow.
The benchmark, leveraging the power of IBM's mid-range 64 processor,
p6-based application and data base servers, with DS4100 storage,
completed runs for 20 million service delivery points. Testing included
scenarios for 15 minute and hourly intervals as well as simultaneous
validation and bill determinate processing to effectively handle the
terabytes of data required of large-scale deployments. These tests are a
testament to EnergyIP's real-time message-based architecture, which
allows incremental additions of computing power with near-linear
increases in capacity. EnergyIP's unique approach eliminates software
bottlenecks at both the application and database server levels to enable
consistent scaling.
"Our customers can be confident that their investments will be
successful over the lifetime of their smart energy initiatives. These
results with IBM are a testament to the scalability of a true Service
Oriented Architecture," said Larsh Johnson, CTO, eMeter. "Even beyond 20
million meters, it's exciting to know that as requirements grow you can
incrementally add computing power and EnergyIP throughput will grow in
step. It's no longer a question of whether the software can scale, but,
how soon will systems reach this scale?"
About eMeter
eMeter provides essential software that enables electric, gas and water
utilities to realize the full benefits of Smart Grid. Leading utilities
worldwide depend oneMeter Smart Grid Management software to reduce
operational costs, improve customer service, and drive energy
efficiency. With the most large-scale deployments in the industry and
strategic partnerships with Accenture, IBM, Logica, and Siemens, eMeter
has built a reputation for unparalleled expertise that ensures customer
success. For more information visit: www.emeter.com.
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