Introduction

Wireless Applications and Consulting Services, LLC (WACS) provides consultancy to major utility companies in USA. Objective of this project was to create a re-usable solution to provide specialized applications to leverage Automated Meter Reading (AMR) data in electric, gas and water utilities.

We have been engaged for providing technology solution comprising of system design, development and deployment.

Application Brief

This is a data warehousing cum transaction processing application. The application receives XML/Flat files of meter readings and master data from designated gateways. The process daemon locates files and runs specified processes to classify meter readings into Good, Stale, Incomplete, Partial, etc. Several other processes are run in sequence to create estimated readings for Stale, Incomplete and Partial reads and generate bills and related reports. The application needs to process about 50 million records for 2 million customers everyday.

WACS DataStore project is expected to maintain records pertaining to energy consumption of electric, gas, steam and water for upto 2 million consumers for a period of 5 years. It would also allow the utility service providers and the consumers to analyze this data from various dimensions, thus allowing the user to manage energy requirements and consumption. The project comprise the development of the following key software components / modules: