Enhancements in Oracle Utilities Smart Grid Gateway

This section describes new and enhanced features in this release of Oracle Utilities Smart Grid Gateway.

The release includes:

• AMI Adapters

• Commands

AMI Adapters

This section describes the new and enhanced AMI adapter features in this release, including:

• Landis+Gyr Adapter Updates

• Itron OpenWay Adapter Updates

• Sensus Adapter Updates

• Silver Springs Network Adapter Updates

Landis+Gyr Adapter Updates

Landis+Gyr v8.1 is now supported.

Steps To Enable

To enable this feature, refer to the Smart Grid Gateway Adapters section of the Oracle Utilities Meter Solution Administrative Guide for more information.

Itron OpenWay Adapter Updates

Itron OpenWay Operation Center v5.3 and v5.4 are now supported.

Steps To Enable

To enable this feature, refer to the Smart Grid Gateway Adapters section of the Oracle Utilities Meter Solution Administrative Guide for more information.

Sensus Adapter Updates

Sensus RNI version 4.10 is now supported. This reduces maintenance costs.

Steps To Enable

To enable this feature, refer to the Smart Grid Gateway Adapter Native Implementations section of the Oracle Utilities Meter Solution Administrative User Guide for more information.

Silver Springs Network Adapter Updates

Itron SSN (AMM) version 4.14 is now supported, allowing the use of the latest SSN head-end system version. The updated SSN adapter reduces maintenance costs and enables the use of the latest SSN head-end system.

Steps To Enable

To enable this feature, refer to the Smart Grid Gateway Adapter Native Implementations section of the Oracle Utilities Meter Solution Administrative User Guide for more information.

Commands

This section describes the new and enhanced command features in this release, including:

• Throttle Disconnect Commands for Nonpayment

• Sensus Adapter - Unit of Measurement Filtering for On-Demand Reads

Throttle Disconnect Commands for Nonpayment

The Throttle Disconnect Commands for Nonpayment feature provides the capability to limit the number of disconnect commands sent per hour. By limiting the of disconnect commands that occur at once, customer call centers will not be overwhelmed with service calls (for example, outage or payment) when processing large numbers of device disconnect activities.

Steps To Enable

To enable this feature, complete these steps:

1. Verify that Cut for Non Payment Orchestration Service is set to "Restricted to Business Hours."

2. Configure the Remote Disconnect Activity Type by setting the Throttle Option to "Allowed," the schedule, and the number of requests to process.

3. Schedule the D1-CRWTO (Command Request Wait Monitor with Throttle Option) batch job to be inline with the Remote Disconnect Type schedule. Note that you can use this batch job for all commands but should not be used in conjunction with older batch jobs that call commands.

Tips And Considerations

As of this release, throttling is only available with Remote Disconnect smart meter command activities.

Sensus Adapter - Unit of Measurement Filtering for On-Demand Reads

The Sensus adapter provides Unit of Measurement (UOM) filtering to exclude irrelevant meter readings from an on-demand read (ODR) request. UOM filtering disregards any units of measure that do not have the corresponding Meter Solution measuring component. Previously, the Sensus ODR process provided all possible units of measure for a device and if the unit of measure is not setup as a measuring component for the device IMD Seeder errors occurred.

Steps To Enable

No steps are required to enable this feature.