Smart Grid Network Device Management Available In XML-Based Platforms

Network management systems represent an emerging and critical market for the utility industry. Smart Grids are evolving rapidly, requiring more advanced communications and management.

For many companies, homegrown or proprietary solutions to manage smart gridsare expensive to build and maintain.  NOCVue^TM is a powerful platform that provides a NMS/EMS solution for energy and utility companies because it integrates seamlessly into both existing and new grid networks and communicates easily with hardware and software from different vendors.

The key features important to smart grid network device management are:

Security Management:  Framework includes built-in capabilities for role-based access control for user management. Custom user levels and function based access are supported.

Resource Management: The platform supports CLI, SNMP, TL1 and other industry standard protocols as south bound communication interfaces with substation elements and other network devices. The architecture supports building specific adaptors for supporting proprietary modules.

Reporting Framework: Includes a built-in reporting engine that can generate a wide variety of easily customizable reports. Report generation supports graphs and also allows importing data from other sources.

High Availability and Distributed Architecture: Supports platform level High Availability ensuring near zero down time. It supports a standalone and distributed deployments to support a wide range of business needs.

GIS Support: Google maps are integrated to provide real-time location of the managed devices. It also supports region based grouping of managed devices and custom definitions of regions.  Drill-down capable maps which are automatically refreshed based on the state changes. The maps can be easily customized and will display the real-time states of network elements and the links between them.

Customizable Dashboards: Various attributes can be picked and chosen to form various graphs to be depicted as dashboards. Faults, device usage stats, device statuses, performance counters and various other

Simplifying the complexity

Velankani Communications Technologies offers smart grid management solutions using NOCVue NMS/EMS, a unified communication network management system.  NOCVue NMS/EMS supports interfaces that easily integrate with applications in smart grid ecosystems, providing an IP-based communications to manage grid endpoint devices.