Smart Grid Savings Through Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI)
Cost-efficient and sustainable energy solutions are a must.
Advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) can optimize energy consumption, creating sustainable cost savings for both the utility and its customers. Burns & McDonnell can design a comprehensive Smart Grid approach to AMI to deliver the results you require. Let us help you envision it — and build it.
Energy Conservation, Intelligent Use of Resources
AMI is one component of the Smart Grid. It allows two-way communication between the utility and its customers via smart meters. These meters employ advanced technology to measure, collect and analyze energy use upon request or on a pre-defined schedule. This presentation of real-time, or near real-time, data allows the consumer and the energy provider to make decisions in real time.
An AMI infrastructure — consisting of smart meters, two-way communication technologies, meter data management systems and customer-associated systems — allows utilities to reduce operational costs, improve outage response and manage demand conditions effectively. An AMI infrastructure ultimately enhances customer service through the implementation of an optimized, responsive, intelligent network.
In order to take advantage of AMI technologies, the communication network through which each of the intelligent devices communicates must be secure and robust. Burns & McDonnell's multidisciplined expertise can guide your Smart Grid AMI infrastructure deployment from concept through completion, large scale or small.
- Reduced meter reading cost
- Dynamic pricing
- Identification of tampering and theft
- Near real-time identification of issues
- Superior load profiling
- Incentive-based demand response program
- Improved outage detection, management and restoration
- Proactive maintenance
- Enhanced customer service
- Business case development
- Request for proposal development
- Use case development
- End-to-end solution design
- Technology assessment
- Field implementation
- Procurement
- Project management
- Fiber optics network
- Microwave networks
- Mobile radio networks
- Personal communication systems
- Wi-Fi
- Broadband over power lines
- Wi-Max
- Distribution line carriers
- Supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA)