Management system
EnergyAxis Management System:
Data management and access made easy.
Whether you are a CIO of a large utility or the director of operations
at a small municipality, you need total visibility and control of your
service network for business operations, as well as customer operations
and customer satisfaction.
The EnergyAxis Management System (EA_MS) is the most advanced and widely
deployed system manager for smart grid solutions, enabling you to retrieve
accurate real-time information about the health, security, and performance
of the end devices as well as the smart grid communications network
itself.
Benefits of the EnergyAxis Management System:
- Minimizes future obsolescence: Even though second generation EnergyAxis smart devices have been shipping for over a year, EA_MS is backwards compatible with and continues to support all first generation smart devices. Elster is working with industry user and standards groups to assure support for a wide range of future devices.
- Exceptional interoperability for ease of deployment: The EA_MS utilizes open system industry standards such as XML, SOAP, Web Services, MultiSpeak and CIM. EnergyAxis Management System has been tested and/or deployed with most major enterprise applications and demand response devices.
- Superior system availability: Be assured that your system management solution will always be available with automatic memory management, statistics, and data recovery advisor, automatic backups (physical and logical), full backup, incremental, and cumulative, graceful exception handling (auto repair), snapback capable, hot failover with automatic direction to the standby site within seconds.
- WAN agnostic: EnergyAxis supports a wide range of WAN options as well as the ability to concurrently use more than one backhaul technology.
More about the EA_MS components:
- Element management: Provides continuous discovery for Level 2–Level 3, faults, device configuration and management, auditing health and performance, remote firmware upgrades, security, and device interoperability.
- Network management: Monitors network health, performance and security; performs preventative measures to the WAN and LAN.
- Multi-utility service management: Offers management applications for Smart Metering (electric, gas, water), Grid Modernization, Demand Response (ZigBee, 900 MHz), as well as future smart grid applications.
- AxisVault: Offers the convenience of an integrated meter data repository and reporting tool.
- AxisDetect: Enables you to really see what is happening system-wide through real time geospatial outage detection system utilizing online mapping tools. Displays mesh network build-out; hop levels; communications paths, rate and distances. Provides a real-time view of current status, outages and other similar alarms or events; Views device information such as power status check, on-request read, and real-time voltage read.
