eMeter demonstrates ability to scale to 50 million meters

eMeter has completed a 50 million meter benchmark test, which means its EnergyIP Smart Grid Application Platform can provide utilities of any size with the energy consumption analytics required for risk-free growth.

As part of the benchmarking process, eMeter achieved Oracle Exadata Optimized status through Oracle Partner Network, demonstrating that EnergyIP has been tested and tuned with Oracle Exadata Database Machine to deliver speed, scalability and reliability to energy and water utility customers.

“In our testing, we achieved a sustained meter read processing of over 400 million intervals per hour, completing processing in under six hours, exceeding the daily handling criteria to scale to 50 million meters while utilising under 60% of Oracle Exadata resources,” said Lisa Caswell, eMeter President.

“These results demonstrate that EnergyIP, working with Oracle Exadata Database Machine, can provide industry-leading scalability and deliver billing-quality energy consumption data ready for use by multiple applications, including analytics. Factors like mergers and the growth of shared services mean many utilities have to manage a rapidly growing amount of data. The ability to scale to 50 million meters ensures our customers predictable and stable performance with a risk-free growth and scaling path.”

Testing EnergyIP 7.6 with Oracle Exadata was based on multiple real-world scenarios requiring estimation of missing data, computing and delivering time-of-use billing values, and updating database records related to high-volume smart meter installations and normal daily customer changes. Combined with the meter read processing, these ‘day in the life’ scenarios required less than nine hours of processing time and averaged less than 50% of Oracle Exadata capacity.

eMeter was acquired by Siemens in January 2012. EnergyIP is used by electric, gas and water utilities in more than 16 countries.