Systems integration
Collaboration and smart design for efficient systems integration.
Deploying a Smart Grid solution can lead to concerns that your new system may not work well with your legacy enterprise operations. With Elster and EnergyAxis, you can leave those concerns behind.
Elster has deployed dozens of EnergyAxis Systems, so we have experience with most of the widely used enterprise systems as well as many one-of-a-kind legacy systems. In addition, EnergyAxis is designed to integrate smoothly with most systems. The Elster Professional Services team will work with you to define a customized interface to integrate any non-standard legacy systems.
The key to smooth integration is widely used industry standards. EnergyAxis Management System (EA_MS) incorporates web services, services oriented architecture (SOA), common interface modules (CIM) and XML, offering straightforward integration with back-office business and IT systems such as MDM, outage management, customer care and billing, WMS, pre-pay, and demand response.
We continue to expand our knowledge base, strengthen our strategic partnerships, and develop leading edge technologies to deliver the most effective Smart Grid solutions in the industry.
Elster actively participates in industry working groups such as:
- ANSI– Participant or chair of 11 different ANSI committees, subcommittees or working groups www.ansi.org
- Demand Response and Advanced Metering Coalition (DRAM)
- Electric Power Research Institute– member EPRI IntelliGrid program since January 2008 www.epri.com
- GridWise Alliance
- MultiSpeak– EnergyAxis certified MultiSpeak interoperable with Milsoft Utility Solutions Outage Management solution in 2008 www.multispeak.org
- Open Smart Grid Users Group– www.osgug.ucaiug.org
- Open HAN Users Group
- Open AMI Users Group
- ZigBee Alliance– Member since 2007 www.zigbee.org
