2. An American Success Story
Over 150 Years in the Utility Business
Fortune 1000 Company
1.4B Annual Revenues
5,300 Employees
The Leading Manufacturer of Water Infrastructure and Flow Control Products and Services

3. What is AMI?
Advanced Metering Infrastructure, is the complete automation of the process of determining how much electricity has been used by the customer for any time period and producing a bill to the customer for that usage.

4. How The Process Works It all begins with power useage… RF-Thermostat
900 MHz RF
Electric Meter
Electric Meter with Under the Glass (MIU-LF) Gateway to RF-Thermostat
Load Management/
Energy Conservation
900 MHz RF
Electric Meter

5. GSM/GPRS/Broadband/ Private network
How The Process Works
Usage data is communicated to the collector and Internet…
NC (Collector)
GSM/GPRS/Broadband/ Private network

6. How The Process Works
Usage data is then communicated to utility host server
Utility Host Server

7. How The Process Works Utility host server communicates data to
Third Party Billing software, Cell Phones/PDAs and the web user Interface.
Utility Host Server
Third party billing software
Web user interface
Cell phone/PDA

8. GSM/GPRS/Broadband/ Private network
How The Process Works
NC (Collector)
GSM/GPRS/Broadband/ Private network
RF-Thermostat
900 MHz RF
Electric Meter
Electric Meter with Under the Glass (MIU-LF) Gateway to RF-Thermostat
Utility Host Server
Third party billing software
Load Management/
Energy Conservation
RF-Thermostat
900 MHz RF
Electric Meter
Cell phone/PDA
Web user interface

9. Five Major Components of Mi.Net

10. Five Major Components of Mi.Net

11. Five Major Components of Mi.Net

12. Five Major Components of Mi.Net

13. Five Major Components of Mi.Net

14. Mi.Net System Components
Mi.Node-E
Integrated Into Meters From Landis+Gyr
Integration Into Focus, S4E, and Focus AX In Development
Features
Tamper Detection & Notification
Power Outage Detection/Restoration with Automatic Notification
Load Profiling, Demand, & TOU Calculations w/Integral Clock
Power Quality Monitoring – Line Voltage, Blink Count, Outage Count
Consumption Measurements - +kWh, -kWh, Net kWh, & Added kWh
Non-Volatile Data Storage, 45D
Two Way Communication

15. Mi.Net System Components
Mi.Node-W
Soft disconnect
Alarms, and alerts
Leak detection
Revenue protection and fraud detection
Web access for consumers, etc
Meter Right-Sizing
One Way Communication
Hot Rod
Mi.Node
Two Way Communication
Lithium battery has 20 year life
Mi.Node
Mi.Node
Mi.Node
Mi.Gate

16. Mi.Net System Components
Mi.Gate — Central and Communication Module
Power
120 volts AC
10W idle
15W active or
12 volt DC solar power
Communication
Cell, Ethernet, Wi-Fi or Radio
Size and Weight
7” x 10” x 3”
2.5 Lbs.

17. Mesh Networking Engineered routes between nodes
Nodes can all connect to each other via multiple hops
Self-healing = very reliable

18. Star Networking
In a star network environment, communication signals are transmitted from each meter to the receiver and then to the utility.

19. Mesh or Star Technology – Mi.Net is both
900 MHz Radio Technology
Stable technology
Battery backup

20. Mi.Net System Components
Mi.Host — Host server where all the information is processed
120 volts AC

21. Host Server and user Interface
Mi.Host
Windows SQL Server
On-demand Two-way Reading
Hosted or Utility Owned Options

22. Host Server and user Interface
Mi.Host
Windows SQL Server
On-demand Two-way Reading
Hosted or Utility Owned Options
Consumption Profiling
Leak Detection Reports
Meter Tampering Reports

23. Host Server and user Interface
Mi.Host
Windows SQL Server
On-demand Two-way Reading
Hosted or Utility Owned Options
Consumption Profiling
Leak Detection Reports
Meter Tampering Reports
GIS Routing tools and Outage Management
Time of Use (TOU) billing
Transfers Appropriate Billing Data

24. Host Server and user Interface
Mi.Host
Windows SQL Server
On-demand Two-way Reading
Hosted or Utility Owned Options
Consumption Profiling
Leak Detection Reports
Meter Tampering Reports
GIS Routing tools and Outage Management
Time of Use (TOU) billing
Transfers Appropriate Billing Data
Customer Account Access
Real-time and SMS Messages
Temperature and Precipitation Data

25. User Interface
Easy Navigation
ALL Meters

26. User Interface – By Account
Intergrated CIS Data
On-demand Reads “to the Meter”

27. User Interface – Reports
Numerous Report Formats
On-Line Graphs to Export to Excel

28. GIS Tool – Outage Management
If you click the Outage tab in the upper left corner

29. GIS Tool – Outage Management
Full Outage list is then shown for sorting and prioritizing work

30. GIS Tool – Outage Management
Click on an icon and you can see address detail

31. Consumer Alerts, also Emailed
Consumer Home page
Easy Navigation
Linked from Utility
Message from Utility
Consumer Alerts, also ed
Weather Data

32. Consumer Settings Page
Consumer Managed List
Consumer Selected Units
Consumer Managed Thresholds

33. Consumer Daily Consumption
Year, Month or Hourly
Consumer Threshold

34. Consumer Hourly Consumption

35. Hosting Provides a carefree experience Eliminates
Capital investment costs for Host Server hardware
Upfront software costs
Tasks associated with the host server
Town need to monitor & manager daily operation of the system
Provides a carefree experience

36. Benefits of Core Functionality
Re-deploy Meter Reader resources
Reduce Meter Reader vehicle expense
Eliminate lost time accidents
Reduce clerical billing expense
Reduce meter reading/billing errors

37. Additional Benefits Obtainable
On-demand meter readings
Detect meter tampering
Detect meter theft
Detect customer outage and duration
Remotely reconfigure meter

38. Benefits Beyond metering
Monitor customer and system loading
Real time loading of distribution equipment
Detect customer-owned generation backfeed into utility
Enable logging of power quality data
Correlate load demand with ambient weather conditions
Allow use of advanced tariffs (TOU)

39. Benefits for the Consumer
Provide real-time electricity pricing
Option to allow demand response with associated cost saving
Allow totalization of physically remote locations into one bill
Opens up various tariff options

40. Information Access
Web access of meter data by:
Utility
Customer

41. Empowering Consumers and Utility PersonnelPC
Cell Phone
PDA

42. Enterprise Resource management
Customer Access
Remote Thermostat
Home Display
Smart Meters
Electric, Water, Gas
Residential
C & I
Support for ISO DR
Certified Vendor for ISO-NE
Carried over to NY ISO
Maintenance, Operation
Power Outage Management
Tamper Detection
Remote Hard Disconnect
Remote Soft Disconnect
Transformer Loading
Energy Management
Remote control of Thermostat
Remote Control of any Load
Billing Services
Support for existing Billing System
Rate, TOU, Demand
Virtual Metering
Enterprise Resource Management
Customer Information System
Global Information System
Meter, Transformer

43. High Bill Complaints

44. Improve Customer Relations
I called one of our Selectmen after his use was picked out by our variance report.
Was able to give specific hours with high use
Blamed us first
Blamed kids second
Blamed wife third
After we had the first snow of the year,
I called him the next morning and told him
that his use remained low that night
He realized that it was his engine block heaters
from trucks that had previously been garaged
at another location

45. Improve Customer Relations
Last month high bill complaint
Went into his history and asked — what did you begin doing at 10:00 on January 20th?
You could see by the look on his face that he knew what the problem was. He left, then called back a few hours later to see if his use had returned to normal.

46. Pilot Project What is it? Why do it? Test drive before you buy.
20 Electric meters & Mi.Nodes
20 Water meters & Mi.Nodes
1 Collector
Hosted Data Collection
Practice use of our Software
Why do it? Test drive before you buy.
Gain operational experience with a real AMI system
Get comfort with our software & user interface
Demonstrate Mi.Net/WiFi compatibility
Gain confidence on our communications scheme
Meter-Radio-Collector-Host-YOU

47. Migration Path – Hybrid Solution
Water AMI (1-way instead of AMI (2-way)
Electric AMI (2-way)Water data jumps from water meter…
to electric meter…
then to collector…
then to server (host)
Pro — cost savings on water radio module
Con — reduced feature set for water customers

48. Pop Quiz What do the following have in common?
• Last • Fast
• Week • Weak
• Next • Text
• Home • Rome
One LETTER difference, but VERY different meanings

49. Extra Credit
What is the difference?

50. Lower Cost Hybrid AMI System
AMR Module (Hot Rod) able to communicate with Mi.Node Electric Radio
Clear Migration Path to AMI
Allows for “Hybrid” Installations
Offers Lower Cost Full AMI One Way/ Two Way Deployment

51. Our Experience
Water Metering
AMR Systems
Electric Metering
AMI Systems
Our products are deployed in thousands of water and electric utilities
We have shipped hundreds of thousands of AMR radios
Our Service Division has installed numerous AMR/AMI systems across the U.S.