Head-End System (HES)

  • Communication with meters/concentrators/collectors using specialized gateways
    • DLSMS/COSEM standard and IDIS specification
    • WEB services for PLC concentrators
    • Various protocols for legacy metering (IEC1107) data collectors
    • Support for IoT enabled metering ( SigFox, LoRaWan, NB-IoT)
  • Scheduling and distribution of the massive parallel communication
    • Ad hoc data read out
    • Periodic / user configurable data read out
    • Prioritization support
  • Data collection (metering data, states, events, configuration data, alarms, logs, …) and persistent storage
  • Configuration (set-up / parametrization) of meters

Meter Data Management (MDM)

  • Data validation / transformation / normalization
  • Missing data detection
  • Anomaly detections
  • Estimation of Substitution values (prediction algorithms)
  • Estimation of quality
  • Data aggregation (e.g. for delivery points)
  • Calculation of losses
  • Integration with
    • eMDMS Balance management module
    • DSO information systems
    • External systems

Accompanying features

  • AM (asset management)
  • Device management
  • Group management with geolocation support
  • Monitoring
  • Integration with monitoring systems
  • Systems level integration
  • Application events integration using Event manager (EM)
  • Smart meter events/alarms
  • eMDMS events
  • User management
  • Rich web GUI interface, Multilanguage
  • Integration platform
  • eMDMS extensions