DR Software: Essential Foundational Elements and Platform Components UCLA Smart Grid Energy Research Center (SMERC) Industry Partners Program (IPP) Meeting May 27, 2011 Yogen Patel, Vice President, Zyrion Inc

Overview & Company Background  Review how Zyrion can contribute to the development of automated Demand Response (DR) software systems Provide a quick introduction of the company Summarize some of the challenges in developing effective DR software Explain how Zyrion’s technology and software platform can be utilized by the SMERC project and solution partners Zyrion provides an integrated software platform for performance data capture, event generation, analysis, visualization and reporting  Network and IT Infrastructure Monitoring  Business Service Management  Operations Management 2 © 2011 Zyrion, Confidential

Automated Demand Response (DR) Process © 2011 Zyrion, Confidential 3

Key Challenges in Creating Effective DR Software Systems © 2011 Zyrion, Confidential Supporting highly-distributed, massive, device-agnostic, data collection Linking to dashboards, portals & information systems, and enabling future trending & predictive modeling Processing huge amounts of raw data, and abstracting this as high-level events Performing intelligent filtering, suppression, and translation of events Integrating with the transmission and distribution control infrastructure 4 Executing sophisticated, contextual rules to determine appropriate load changes

How to Get There © 2011 Zyrion, Confidential 5 Researchers focus on the models, algorithms and protocols behind the “smarts” in the automation of DR Rely on partners for: Massively scalable “plumbing” DR system solution enablers Underlying platform and frameworks

How Zyrion Helps SMERC & Partners: Ready-to-Use Platform for DR Work © 2011 Zyrion, Confidential Distributed collectors, supporting SNMP, plug-in monitors, EDF interface, and log capture (data-agnostic) Powerful integration APIs for all objects, events and data Highly configurable, fully-open, extensible, XML-based rules framework for event processing and alerting Highly configurable, extensible, two- way, plug-in action framework (Java, C, Perl, etc.) Customizable reports, visualization and status views, with full user mgmt. 6 ‘Container’ object model for higher-level abstraction, dependencies & relationships

In Conclusion  Zyrion has one of the most scalable and flexible performance/event processing, analysis, reporting and visualization platforms in the world –Innovative distributed database architecture –Proven deployments worldwide ‘comparable use cases’ to DR  Our software provides a solid foundation for experimenting with DR solution approaches / prototypes –Augment with domain expertise and add-ons to develop full DR solutions  Zyrion looks forward to collaborating with SMERC and Partners in the DR areas of the research project © 2011 Zyrion, Confidential 7 Yogen Patel, Vice President, Zyrion Inc