The rise of smart meters has increased the complexity of metering systems and their integration with external Meter Data Management (MDM) and accounting systems. With regular meter updates, utilities often face the challenge of integrating a new Head-End System (HES) for each meter type, leading to high costs and increased IT complexity. oHES Enterprise addresses this issue by enabling simple driver development, eliminating the need to implement a new HES with every new meter type. Our multi-vendor HES platform simplifies integration and ensures efficient management of diverse networks, making it the ideal solution for the evolving world of smart metering.
Main Technical Challenges
Multi-vendor communication: A smart metering (AMI) platform supporting DLMS/COSEM, OMP, ModBus, and other legacy driver solutions. It optimizes readout performance for each meter type, handling varying response times efficiently.
Multi-vendor environment: The oHES Enterprise platform integrates meters from different vendors, providing remote software management and standardized communication for data processing. It retrieves raw metering, operational, network, and event data without altering it. Once harmonized, the data structure becomes uniform, ensuring readability and consistency. The system also fills data gaps caused by communication disruptions or slowdowns, without involving software estimation.
Multiple utility provider: an environment for managing data from multiple utility providers (electricity, gas, water, heat).
Scalability of Readout Performance: A key feature of oHES Enterprise is its ability to quickly read meters. It ensures that accounting and technical data, along with events, are entered into the system as fast as possible. oHES Enterprise can handle large volumes of meters, adjusting its software, database, and meter-specific drivers to match the current meter load.
Enterprise Architecture: oHES Enterprise seamlessly integrates into existing IT environments, adapting to the specific needs of enterprise IT. It also enables remote software management of assets.
Investment Durability: oHES Enterprise is built with the latest JAVA Enterprise software and supports PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL, and Oracle databases. It can be migrated to any SQL database and is performance-proportional, available in a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) model.
Minimizing Operational Risk: Our team offers full support during system implementation and operation. We provide a 24/7 support contract to ensure smooth operation of the production system.
oHES Enterprise Installer Mobile Application
The oHES Installer Application module is part of the oHES Enterpirse. It can be used to get a complete reading of the installed meter on site and to download the measurement and configuration.
oHES Enterprise Riporting
The oHES Riporting is part of the oHES Enterprise system. The module is able to generate meter-specific data queries from the oHES system.
oHES Enterprise Southbond interface
It provides full remote accessibility and management functionality for smart meters, regardless of the type. With scalability suited for large enterprises, it handles all functions of SouthBond interfaces. The system supports remote data transfers to SAP/ERP/Trader/Aggregator, provisioning, commissioning, firmware upgrades, activity calendar management, meter configuration changes, and both individual and bulk meter operations.
oHES Enterprise Performance Monitoring
It supports nightly readings of large numbers of meters and efficient data uploads via the Monitoring interface. The system can be expanded and fine-tuned as the number of meters grows.