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ElectraLink provides network communications and code governance services for the UK gas and electricity markets. Their Data Transfer Service (DTS) is a national data hub for all energy market participants in the UK. Through the DTS, ElectraLink has access to vast quantities of data. They realized this was an untapped and under-utilised resource. Properly harnessed, this data could become a driving force for innovation, delivering insights to British energy companies, allowing utilities to reduce their operational costs and enabling them to create new services for their customers.

Smarthub is a Norwegian service provider driving the energy revolution by delivering smart metering and smart grid as a service for DSOs. They are currently delivering services to 10 DSOs. Smarthub is operating the head end system, validation of consumption values, meter data management system, and integration towards the Norwegian datahub known as Elhub. The DSOs are operating their own customer information systems, work order management systems, DMS and SCADA. To automate the smart metering value chain, Smarthub needed a multitenant integration solution with short time-to-market.

Rolling out smart meters and advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) is typically very costly, particularly for smaller utilities or grid operators. To benefit from economies of scale, utilities often engage with a service provider to deliver the smart metering service on their behalf. Such a service provider then needs to integrate to the utilities’ core systems and build up the metering specific IT infrastructure themselves. This enables them to handle data collection, validation, estimation and storage of meter data, synchronization of asset information across all utilities’ systems and transfer of billing relevant data according to the specific metering regulations.