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	Modernizing a Legacy Energy Grid

Modernizing a Legacy Energy Grid

Technology Category	Platform as a Service (PaaS) - Data Management Platforms
Applicable Industries	Utilities
Challenge	For AusNet, this represented a tremendous challenge to replace 700,000 legacy meters across a diverse geographical environment creating additional network communications coverage complexity. The Victorian state government also required that the new meters would need to maintain high-performance levels for 15 years. To demonstrate compliance and smart grid uptime, AusNet would need to consistently produce accurate meter performance data on a daily basis for 20 market retailers. This required integrating and analyzing massive volumes of smart grid data in real-time. Read More
About Customer	AusNet Network Services, Victoria, Australia's largest diversified energy infrastructure company. Read More
Customer Name	AusNet Network Services Read More
Solution	Following DB Results’ advice, AusNet trusted Bit Stew’s technology to centralize data integration on a single, holistic platform that significantly enhanced data visualization and empowered more efficient demand response. By leveraging the machine learning, artificial intelligence and semantic data modeling of Bit Stew’s MIx product portfolio, AusNet was able to provide a reliable, accurate single source of truth to retailers and regulators. Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Platform as a Service (PaaS) - Data Management Platforms

Applicable Industries

Utilities

Challenge

For AusNet, this represented a tremendous challenge to replace 700,000 legacy meters across a diverse geographical environment creating additional network communications coverage complexity. The Victorian state government also required that the new meters would need to maintain high-performance levels for 15 years. To demonstrate compliance and smart grid uptime, AusNet would need to consistently produce accurate meter performance data on a daily basis for 20 market retailers. This required integrating and analyzing massive volumes of smart grid data in real-time.

About Customer

AusNet Network Services, Victoria, Australia's largest diversified energy infrastructure company.

Customer Name

AusNet Network Services

Solution

Following DB Results’ advice, AusNet trusted Bit Stew’s technology to centralize data integration on a single, holistic platform that significantly enhanced data visualization and empowered more efficient demand response. By leveraging the machine learning, artificial intelligence and semantic data modeling of Bit Stew’s MIx product portfolio, AusNet was able to provide a reliable, accurate single source of truth to retailers and regulators.

Impact #1	[Data Management - Real Time Data] Bit Stew’s MIx technology helps ensure network and meter uptime by providing a single pane of glass for ICT teams and operators to be able to see asset status in real-time.
Impact #2	[Efficiency Improvement - Energy] The Power of Choice program takes information from the mesh network and the meter heads and presents it to consumers in a dashboard to make better decisions regarding personal energy performance and consumption.

Impact #1

[Data Management - Real Time Data]
Bit Stew’s MIx technology helps ensure network and meter uptime by providing a single pane of glass for ICT teams and operators to be able to see asset status in real-time.

Impact #2

[Efficiency Improvement - Energy]
The Power of Choice program takes information from the mesh network and the meter heads and presents it to consumers in a dashboard to make better decisions regarding personal energy performance and consumption.

Benefit #1	MIx Director Suite saved internal resources for operators to drive hundreds of miles to look into this.

Benefit #1

MIx Director Suite saved internal resources for operators to drive hundreds of miles to look into this.

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Modernizing a Legacy Energy Grid

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