Eviden ASGS helps forward-thinking utility companies implement effective smart grid and smart metering strategies, improving existing systems whenever possible and without the need for major capital investment or mega IT projects. ASGS is the new smart grid nerve center. The suite collects and processes meter data to provide relevant and near real-time information to your commercial and operational systems. The success of your smart metering strategy is only as good as the information and communication infrastructure which supports it. ASGS is a multi-fluid and multi-tenant end-to-end solution with the following essential functions:

Universal Head-End:

• On demand, scheduled or periodic meter data collection
• Communication management with concentrators and meters
• Connection of data concentrators during installation and their registration after authentication
• Meters, DC and Gateway discovery, replacement, parameters settings, orders management, firmware update, and time synchronization

Data Concentrator:

• Communication management with UHE and meters
• Implementation of retry mechanisms
• The discovery of Meters (either on polling or “new” alarm), and the transmission to UHE
• Local Logs & Events management

Meter Data Management:

• Data collection: Data acquisition from HES, B2B interface for data import
• Real time Data processing: VEE, Settlement, Data aggregation
• Data Publishing: B2B interface Mdus connector for SAP-ISU
• Data Storage: Highly scalable data store, archiving, purge
• Data segregation for multi company access (for multitenancy)

Enterprise Asset Mngt

• Device configuration and status management
• Device provisioning and deployment information control
• Device firmware/software upgrade and configuration management
• Communication (WAN & LAN) status management
• Workforce interface

Supervision

• Event and alarm management
• Event correlation using complex event structure
• GIS assisted supervision
• Interface with ticketing tool to request field intervention
• Report and statistics about system activities.

Reporting ASGS integrates Business Intelligence tool which has several benefits for customers such as:

• Automatic generation and publishing of reports
• Graphical visualization of system performance

Key Management System / Public Key Infrastructure ASGS Security features are made up of:

• Both AES and RSA certificates management (with their private keys renewal)
• Controlled Authentication, Data integrity control , Confidentiality, and Non repudiation

Add-ons are included in ASGS Adds ons features Clean-up tools:

• Graphical visualization of communication operating state with the meter
• Graphical representation of meter communication status and roads MRA (Meter Roll out Accelerator): workforce management tool to support device installation.