System Software
NES System Software deploys, provisions, configures, audits, diagnoses, and retrieves data from devices operating within the NES Smart Metering System.
Data services include receipt and distribution of events that are reported by devices on the system, and collection of information such as meter register data, load profiles, and power quality data.
- Proven to scale to a 5-million meter network; Uses any standard IP network to communicate with NES Data Concentrators, Edge Control Nodes, and other utility and non-utility assets
- SOA with SOAP/XML enables easy integration with utility middleware, meter data-management systems, and Web services-aware applications and infrastructure from leading providers
- Two-way grid intelligence for a more stable, reliable, and smarter grid; Visibility for lowering grid infrastructure lifecycle costs
- Backward-compatible and extensible architecture protects investment
- Supports meter assignment and commissioning; large-scale demand response and load control; automated collection of events, alarms, load profiles, and meter-billing, demand, and power-quality data; instant diagnostics, power-outage detection verification and restoration, secure remote disconnect/reconnect services
For a more complete description, refer to the NES System Software datasheet (PDF).
Automated commands: Allows grouping of meters through attributes and hierarchies to efficiently perform commands over subsets of meters
Timing control: Maintains accurate system time in meters and data concentrators
Communications: Support for standard IP-based WAN systems, wired, wireless, 2G, 3G, 4G
Software integration: Compatible with utility middleware and applications using standards-based design such as XML, .NET, IP
Scalability: Runs on a single laptop or scales for mass deployments exceeding 5 million devices with security-hardened, balanced, redundant data-center hosting
NES System Software datasheet (PDF)
Making the Grid Smarter (PDF)
Tolly Group Scalability Test Report (registration required)
White Paper: NES Load Profile Performance Test (registration required)
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