Measurement and Service Data Model

The measurement and service data model contains database tables and related functionality used to define and store meters, devices, unmetered items, service points, and measurement data.

Validation and Editing Functionality

The engine that provides the core functionality used to perform validation and editing on usage data.

Estimation and Forecasting Functionality

Processes to estimate missing usage and forecast future energy use.

Measurement Services and Aggregation

Measurement services are used to process meter reading data and manipulate measurements to support billing or other downstream processes.

Consumer Level Usage and Bill Determinant Calculations

The usage engine and usage rules provide the core functionality used to perform consumer usage and bill determinat calculations based on measurement data.

Whole Usage Bill Determinant Calculations

The usage engine and usage rules provide the core functionality used to perform settlement and wholesale billing calculations based on measurement data. The term wholesale relates to purchasing and selling large quantities of energy between energy companies.

Usage Calculations for Settlement Processes

The usage engine and usage rules provide the core functionality used to perform settlement.

Information Lifecycle Management for Meter Data

Oracle Utilities Information Lifecycle Management for Meter Data contains a set of processes to support Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) for a number of high volume transactional data objects. The processes identify eligible historical records to facilitate the migration of data to lower cost storage or archived database.

 

Note: Oracle Database Enterprise Edition and the Partitioning option are prerequisites for this option.

 

Components provided with ILM including batch jobs, algorithms, and database columns are restricted and CANNOT be used to develop custom archiving processes.

Analytics

Base package batch processes used to extract and load data for use in analytics applications such as Oracle Utilities Analytics.

Customer Self Service

Web services used to access data via the Oracle Utilities Customer Self Service application.

Usage and Event Upload Statistics Processing

Processing and compiling upload statistics related to upload of usage and device events.

Smart Meter Command Processing

Executing smart meter commands and communicating with a head-end system for purposes of issuing commands such as remote connect, commission meter, etc.

 

Note: Customers who license Oracle Utilities Meter Data Management can build custom interfaces to AMI vendor head-end systems to support smart meter command processes. However, use of the command business objects (and related objects) included with the Oracle Utilities Service and Measurement Data Foundation without licensing Oracle Utilities Smart Grid Gateway is prohibited.

Outage Integration

Communicating with Oracle Utilities Network Management System, including sending/receiving bulk ping commands, receiving device events from Oracle Utilities Smart Grid Gateway, and suppression of device event notifications (allowing a suppression activity to be configured for a meter or service point so that specified device event notifications will not be sent to Oracle Utilities Network Management System).

Service Order Management

Orchestration of service orders that involve field work and/or smart meter commands through integration with customer information systems, mobile field work systems, and head-end systems.

DataConnect

Components used to extract interval measurements data and master data for integration with external energy management systems.

Settlement Processes

Components used for settlement processes: schedules, unaccounted for energy (UFE) calculations, capacity calculations, procurement, and true up processes.

Wholesale Gas Operations

Components used for wholesale gas operations: nominations, bids, scheduling and transportation.

Forecasting Rules

Rules used to forecast future energy use.