The Grid Information Factory is a suite consisting of a Data Manager, Data Monitor, and Data Analyzer. The suite is designed to address the ever-increasing data processing needs of the utility industry as a result of smart grid technology. The modules are robust and easily configured, and together function as a high performance, scalable and secure back end system.

Grid Data Manager

• High-performance gateway to accelerate decryption, validation and harmonization
• CIM and Open Smart Grid based data model and service definition
• No restriction on number of measures
• Can handle energy and communication connectivity model
• Powerful rules engine capable of supporting user-defined rules
• Real-time data load into a powerful Operational Data Store
• Scalable architecture to support multi-petabytes of data
• Event correlation capabilities to associate multiple cascading events to a root cause
• Flexible event routing to various destinations such as SCADA, OMS, IT monitoring tools, mobile device alerts, Demand Response system
• Complex workflow capabilities
• Flexible system integration capabilities including web services, message queuing, file, email
• Designed for 24x7 availability for reception of grid data

Grid Data Monitor

• Capable of handling multiple measures such as kWh, kVA, kVAR, kV
• Geo-mapping of all data
• Grid performance monitoring with drill-down capabilities
• Real-time event notification
• Event reporting and analysis
• Historical event playback

Grid Data Analyzer

• Executive/KPI dashboard analytics
• Ad hoc reporting capabilities
• Reports related to fault current pattern analysis, asset health scoring, grid reliability calculations, actual energy theft/loss calculation, load flow calculation, Smart Grid aggregator geo-optimization