Integration Overview
The integration between Oracle Utilities Edge Distributed Energy Resources Management System and Oracle Utilities Customer Program Management Cloud Service facilitates the exchange of information related to controllable devices at a customer's premise.
This integration can be utilized to support customer enrollment and unenrollment in programs, replacement of controllable devices, evaluation of control cost, forecasting program events, and event participation outcomes. It also facilitates the master data synchronization for network location hierarchy, program rules, and aggregator information.
Oracle Utilities Customer Program Management Cloud Service is responsible for managing demand response programs and initiating program enrollments and orchestration of the customer enrollment journey. Oracle Utilities Edge Distributed Energy Resources Management System supports the creation, scheduling, and dispatching of demand response events.
The following diagram shows an overview of the integration:
The following systems participate in the overall process:
Oracle Utilities Customer Program Management Cloud Service (CPMCS)
Oracle Utilities Customer Program Management Cloud Service provides the core functionality for utilities to create, run, and maintain demand response and distributed energy resource programs as part of a larger Distributed Energy Resource Management System.
Oracle Utilities Customer Program Management Cloud Service comprises the following functional areas:
• Asset and Device Management: Maintenance of controllable assets, such as “smart” thermostats, electric vehicle chargers, storage batteries, and other types of devices.
• Program Enrollment/Unenrollment: Identification of specific customers that are eligible for particular programs, and establishing relationships between the customers, the programs, and if appropriate, device locations where one more controllable device are (or have been) installed.
• Program Management: Creation and maintenance of Demand Response Programs to which customers can subscribe and which allow utilities to temporarily alter the settings of specific devices in their homes as a response to periods of high demand.
• Program Subscriptions: Maintenance of a customer's program subscriptions, which represent the customer's enrollment in a program and device registration. Program subscriptions link the customer to a program and device location where controllable devices are installed.
• Demand Response Event Management: Identification and reservation of a customer's controllable devices in response to usage demand.
• Measurement Processing: Receipt of measurement data from a customer information system used in program even settlement calculations.
• Program and Customer Settlement: Calculation of credits to be applied to customer bills based on participation in events. Calculations are performed for each event, and then all events in which a customer has participated are summarized.
• Oracle Utilities Cloud Service Foundation: Tools used to orchestrate and automate infrastructure related processes and migrate data from legacy applications into the cloud service.
• Oracle Utilities Analytics Visualization: A suite of analytics applications that provides access to real-time data for self-service exploration, discovery, visualization, and analysis. It includes rich pre-built analytical data models, metrics, and key performance indicators that allow you to derive strategic insights from your data.
Oracle Utilities Edge Distributed Energy Resources Management System (Edge DERMS)
Oracle Utilities Edge Distributed Energy Resources Management System is built on Oracle Utilities Network Management System. It adds incremental support to the Oracle Utilities Network Management System platform for the management of behind the meter demand response resources. Oracle Utilities Edge Distributed Energy Resources Management System can initiate control signals to devices inside customer homes, such as smart thermostats. Oracle Utilities Network Management System facilitates the modeling of individual Demand Response devices down to the customer service point and/or aggregated to load transformers to support Oracle Utilities Network Management System driven optimization. In conjunction with Oracle Utilities Network Management System the Oracle Utilities Edge Distributed Energy Resources Management System component can help optimize electrical networks both operationally and commercially.
Oracle Utilities Edge Distributed Energy Resources Management System offers strategy templates to be used for forecasting for various scenarios during event management. It provides event functions that help grid operators manage and review the forecasted impact of an event. This includes the ability to nominate, approve or reject an event; monitor or cancel an ongoing event and audit historical events. Oracle Utilities Edge Distributed Energy Resources Management System supports automatic generation of event stages (blocks of field device activity) for configured objectives. Stages are built based on cost scores and reduction forecasts received from external applications used to help monitor and manage the Demand Response programs.
Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC)
Oracle Integration Cloud is a cloud-based integration application designed to integrate cloud and on-premises applications, automate business processes, gain insight into your business processes, develop visual applications, process files, and exchange business documents with a B2B partner.
With the Process Builder, business processes can be rapidly designed, automated, and managed in the cloud. Continuous business flows are quickly created by connecting and integrating applications that live in the cloud and/or on-premises.
Domain Value Map or lookups are available to match application specific codes between the applications.
Integration Insights and Stream Analytics help to simplify and extract business metrics and create custom dashboards.