Be Smart About Meter Data Management

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1 SAP Brief SAP Extensions SAP Meter Data Management by Siemens Be Smart About Meter Data Management

2 SAP Brief Maximize the return on your smart grid investment To add real value for customers, your utility company must focus on strengthening operational efficiency related to meter operations and data management. The SAP Meter Data Management application by Siemens allows you to use energy data from smart metering to optimize your and realize return on your investment in smart metering. Maximize the return on your smart grid investment With the right tools to manage growing meter installations and data over time, you can handle processes such as data-discrepancy resolution, meter-change coordination, parts of the meter-to-cash procedure, and multisystem data synchronization in a costeffective and productive manner. It s vital to achieve tight integration and aligned data models for the meter-to-cash process, as well as increase data quality. You must also address multiple digital end-to-end business scenarios and unify multiple metering technologies. Ultimately, you need to focus on business objectives rather than metered services. In managing a smart meter infrastructure with one or more head-end systems, you need to be able to connect to these systems, store and manage this data, and integrate it with other software solutions for optimized meter-to-cash functionality. 2 / 7

3 SAP Brief Connect your meter data to optimize Flexible and scalable, SAP Meter Data Management lets you collect and process meter data. With the application s predefined interfaces and workflows, you can integrate legacy systems and consistently view your information across all meter types and collection systems. Connect multiple head-end systems into a single data management system, through different head-end system adapters connected to a universal advanced-metering-infrastructure adapter in SAP Meter Data Management. Use this functionality to transform the data and format from the smartmetering head-end systems so that SAP Meter Data Management can interpret and process it. Because it was developed in accordance with industry standards, you can use this application as an underlying data infrastructure and to support large-scale, mass-market processes for meter data management. Benefit from a connected, scalable, Web service based data architecture, and manage high volumes of meter data transactions. Connect your meter data to optimize Gain quality assurance for your meter data Stay service oriented with an integrationready solution 3 / 7

4 SAP Brief Gain quality assurance for your meter data Use the smart-metering adapters to process your meter and profiled data from the head-end systems and to validate it using various algorithms. Moreover, the estimation algorithms let you replace any gaps found in the data and produce highquality data for use by other applications. You can instantly verify the accuracy of register and interval data, make corrections, and graphically edit meter data with this validation, estimating, and editing (VEE) functionality. Integrate the data with that in your customer information system for further processing such as billing, market communication, and analytics. You can also use the smart-metering adapters to collect different events and meter flags generated by the meters, such as power outages and reverse rotations. Because this information is stored in the application, you can then identify such issues as faulty meters, missing reads, and device tampers, which are often tied to specific. Take advantage of robust functionality to optimize your current linked to smart metering. Connect your meter data to optimize Gain quality assurance for your meter data Stay service oriented with an integrationready solution 4 / 7

5 SAP Brief Stay service oriented with an integrationready solution With SAP Meter Data Management, you can sync multiple master data types from various source systems through a unique integration interface. Share information throughout your business with this data synchronization engine. Take an incremental approach to syncing data between your smart-metering infrastructure, such as head-end systems, and your business process execution through SAP for Utilities solutions. You can transfer VEE-metered data or billing-quality meter data to various external systems. Deliver billing determinants to an SAP for Utilities solution on a scheduled or one-off basis. Smart-metering automation means you can redeploy your staff from responding to unnecessary and expensive field-service requests or managing requests across different systems, and focus them on other business requirements. For example, perform remote verification of power status to confirm power restoration and avoid the need for service technicians to disconnect service for an overdue customer-billing account or to reconnect service. All these functionalities can help you with improved decision making and efficiencies in meter data processes. Connect your meter data to optimize Gain quality assurance for your meter data Stay service oriented with an integration-ready solution 5 / 7

6 SAP Brief Enhance operational efficiency and customer satisfaction SAP Meter Data Management lets you synchronize data across disparate systems, and manage and maintain complex high-volume metering point deployments and data, through the automated workflow from your SAP customer information software to the smart-metering system. Reconcile billing from your smart metering and your communication provider with data-delivery accuracy. You can increase data quality through the application s standardized smart-metering integration interfaces and accelerate decision making by Create an environment to share data with multiple business systems and cost-effectively adopt regulatory and process changes. automating data collection, validation, and billingdeterminant processing. Improve your operational efficiency by simplifying the end-to-end meter-tocash processes between meters, head-end systems, and SAP for Utilities solutions. This application allows you to future-proof your business by facilitating scaling of meters and exchanges. Also, create a benchmark smartmetering ecosystem by integrating multiple headend systems into one data management system using various adapters. Enhance operational efficiency and customer satisfaction 6 / 7

7 SAP Brief Summary The SAP Meter Data Management application by Siemens allows you to create a Web service based architecture that automates for managing smart meter data. Integrating the processing of Big Data generated by high volumes of connected meters and sensors, the application supports validation, estimation, and editing of meter data and integrates with SAP for Utilities solutions. Increase operational efficiency through tight integration and aligned data models for meterto-cash Improve data quality Unify multiple metering technologies Focus on business objectives rather than metered services Connectivity to multiple head-end systems using adapters Automation of meter-provisioning processes Metered-data storage, management, validation, estimation, and editing Smart-metering interface to integrate meter data with SAP for Utilities solutions Improved efficiencies by simplifying end-to-end meter-to-cash processes Better data quality through standardized interfaces Automated data collection, validation, and billing-determinant processing Scalability and flexibility in creating a benchmark smart-metering ecosystem Learn more To find out more, call your SAP representative today or visit us online. 7 / 7

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