Five Common Integration Pitfalls and the Lessons Learned

摘要

Energy generation, transmission and distribution has been operated and managed by non-IT systems for years. IT as an afterthought - especially around application integration - continues to be the norm for most smart grid pilots across North America. For example, most utilities are focused exclusively on deploying smart meters, communication infrastructure and meter data management (MDM) products in their pilot phases and few have developed a strategic integration architecture that ties MDM data with other enterprise applications such as outage management system (OMS), customer information system (CIS), geographical information system (GIS), distribution management system (DMS) and supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA).