General Features

General Features of Actwin Smart Energy Management are listed below:

• Multi language support
• Ability to use commonly used and secure Microsoft SQL, Oracle databases…
• Distributed structures like “server”, “client”, and “internet” interface.
• The server is the main engine as working at the background and collects data from devices.
• Client, the application part which management is done with interaction to server. Server and client interfaces are desktop applications.
• Internet interface provides, users (like factories) to enter the system and monitor consumption, energy quality and create reports of their own devices.

Communication

Communication Protocols

• IEC 62056-21 Mod C and constant baud rate
• DLMS/Cosem
• Modbus-RTU
• Modbus-TCP/IP
• M-Bus
• Wireless M-Bus

Communication Interfaces

• Serial communication (RS485, RS232)
• GPRS
• M-Bus
• Ethernet
• PLC (DLC)
• RF

Reporting

• Reporting as a table of all selected device’s measurements. Also, measurements to be reported can be selected.
• Graphic display of desired device’s measurements. Multiple device measurements can be drawn on the same chart.
• Measurement points can be compared with algorithms like consumption, average values, etc…
• Active and reactive energy ratio reports for electric meters.
• Consumption reporting for electric meters according to energy tariffs.
• Distribution network load reports (Transformer, gas stations)
• Measurement point daily, monthly, and yearly consumption reports.
• Map display, showing the measurement points and with filters (Reactive energy, low consumption, loss/fraud situations, no communicated points, etc …).
• Transformer loss report
• Total consumption of distribution network as monthly and yearly, import/export with the comparison between time periods.
• Defined gas component reports.
• Natural gas minimum/maximum hourly, daily consumption report.
• Measurement point inventory report
• Measurement point communication performance report
• Water meters low/extreme consumption report

Single-line Diagram

• The electrical distribution network can be showed on single-line diagrams like SCADA systems and the information of instruments like electrical meters, seconder protection relays on this network can be monitored.
• The information like electrical meter’s power-current/voltage values, seconder protection relay’s on/trip situations and quality recorder’s power-current/voltage values can be monitored
• For gas meters, measurement values, filter impurity situations, door/valve situations belong to type B and C stations can be displayed.
• Drag and drop support.
• Infinite number of screens can be created.

Loss/Leakage Detection

• Loss/Leakage reports can be prepared manually and automatically. Automatically prepared reports can be sent to defined personal by e-mail.
• Electric meter parameters (events, current/voltage/power/power factor/phase angle, etc …) can be monitored continuously and alerted to the operators if an unexpected measurement or ratio is measured.
• Unexpected consumption differences are detected between main distribution points and points connected to that distribution point.
• The interventions to meter and panel covers can be detected and operators can be alerted.

Data Validation

• Measurements should not be used on invoices and reports before a data validation system. For that reason, these data validation methods are used.
• Is measurement in or not in specific limits
• The ratio of measurement according to previous periods consumptions
• The situation according to the last measurements
• Is measurement in or not in standard deviation according to the average value of last billing periods
• If there is, the conformity between measurement unit and measurement

Integration

Subscriber Management

• New user and/or measurement points can be defined without professional skills with the copy and paste method.
• There is no limit in subscriber-defined information on measurement points and customer cards. Some predefined information is:
• Customer Number
• User Name
• Address/Parcel İnformation
• User Type
• Start in operation date
• Authorized Person
• The contact information like phone, fax, e-mail, etc.
• GPS coordinates
• Reports can be taken from this defined information, after that grouping, listing, and filtering can be made from these reports.

Web Interface

• Users can view historical measurement values of their own measurement points
• Users can view common or personal messages from management.
• Natural gas consumers can send to the AMR system their forecasts and check their forecasts reports.
• Users may have alerts like a reactive penalty, maximum demand exceeding, minimum and maximum gas consumption.

Alarm Management

• Event records on measurement instruments can be saved and reported on the database.
• The system watches reactive energy consumptions and if there is a measurement to get near or over the limits, the system informs the users with e-mail and SMS.
• E-mail and SMS notifications can be saved on the database and reported later.

Authentication

• The roles can be defined with pre-defined permissions on the system. Users can be defined and roles can be assigned to users.
• Operators can make authorization based on measurement points. They can define which users can reach which measurement points.

Software Modules

• Communication and data validation
• Reporting
• Billing
• Loss/Leakage Detection
• Single-Line Diagram and Map presentation
• Integration with web services
• Alarm Management, SMS, and e-mail notification
• Internet interface
• User Management and Inventory
• Authentication