Advanced Distribution Management System (ADMS)

توضیحات

Yesterday’s grid managers used a discrete set of distribution software and hardware— operations technologies (OT) — to ensure the safe, secure and reliable flow of power. Elsewhere within the utility, other business units used separate information technology (IT) applications to address financial and customer needs. Rarely did the two collaborate.
Today, emerging community and customer needs require close coordination between grid operations and customer-facing departments. Communities want the cleaner environments and lower costs obtainable only when customers use electricity more efficiently. Customers, in turn, want to generate power from an on-site renewable and sell excess production to the utility. They also want more options to conserve electricity and check daily consumption against budget goals, and recharge electric vehicles.
No single part of the utility can address these needs alone. As a result, IT and OT are coming together, united by common corporate objectives. New business processes and programs are lowering the silo walls that once isolated grid engineers from the rest of the utility.
In another view, grid operators are eager to step up to these new challenges. They recognize grid modernization as the next logical engineering advance in powering the globe. However, they cannot assume a smart grid leadership role without software that helps them span operational, business, and customer concerns—twentieth century technology is not enough.
The strong solution is Advanced Distribution Management System (ADMS) that interfaces different systems of one utility. An ADMS facilitates to share the valid real-time data of network with consumers and in response, if any unplanned outage occurred in network particularly where there is no automation, the grid operator can directly recognize through consumers’ systems. In addition, an ADMS can provide an appropariate infrastructure for transactive energy market while all market players can actively participate with having the real-time data of network. An ADMS was depicted in Figure 1.