Architectural Overview

Oracle Utilities meter solution products are used to maintain information about meters and the service points at which they are installed. The applications provide means of recording measurements and events associated with meters in the field as well as the ability to compute usage for the recorded measurements.

Oracle Utilities meter solution products comprise the following functional areas:

  • Device Management: the maintenance of physical meters in the field
  • Device Installation: the maintenance of service points and the installation of meters in the field. This includes the means of registering outside systems to Oracle Utilities Meter Data Management for provider/consumer-specific processing of meter events and activities
  • Device Communication: the maintenance of communications between Oracle Utilities Meter Data Management and head-end systems, including import of usage and events.
  • Validation, Editing, and Estimation: the maintenance of measurement data and the engine used to validate and modify that data as it comes in
  • Usage Management: the engine that calculates billable usage recorded on devices, applying factors and dividing the usage into configurable time of use periods
  • Aggregation: summarization of measurement data for reporting and analysis purposes
  • Data Synchronization: synchronizing data between Oracle Utilities Meter Data Management and other Oracle Utilities applications (including Oracle Utilities Operational Device Management and Oracle Utilities Customer Care and Billing).
  • Oracle Utilities DataConnect: extraction of consumption and master data for use in external systems.
  • Settlement: calculation and reconciliation of energy charges within a market

Oracle Utilities Meter solution products are built upon the Oracle Utilities Service and Measurement Data Foundation, a framework that provides shared functionality used by Oracle Utilities Meter Data Management, the Oracle Utilities Smart Grid Gateway adapters, and other Oracle Utilities products. Oracle Utilities Meter Data Management and the Oracle Utilities Service and Measurement Data Foundation are built atop the Oracle Utilities Application Framework.