FAME™ Enterprise Smart Grid Platform

FAME Enterprise Smart Grid platform is industry's first enterprise-class platform with ready to deploy plug and play modules that can serve as a foundation for all your Smart Grid initiatives. As an alternative to manually starting from "scratch" the FAME platform and modules provide a ready foundation that can be capitalized by Utilities to realize their smart Grid initiatives effectively and efficiently through quicker time to market and faster return on investments.

The FAME™ platform is based upon open standards such as IEC 61968, IEC 61970, Common Information Model (CIM), XML, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Web Services. It conforms to NERC CIP 002-2 to 009-2 security standards and compliance requirements. The platform is tool agnostic and will work with your current investment in SOA technology, databases, and infrastructure.

Application integration is a key to Smart Grid success. Up until now Integration was an afterthought and primarily driven by whatever technology an application vendor offered. Companies relegated their project-focused integration objectives through a one-off approach where an application was integrated with another application through a point to point and perhaps a proprietary approach. This point to point and organic growth over the years resulted in what we refer to as an "Accidental Architecture" that provides little interoperability and scalability. Application and data is locked in silos and cannot be shared or integrated easily.

Smart Grid strategy calls for enterprise-level integration of applications and islands of data to improve information flow throughout the enterprise. The Smart Grid strategy must effectively leverage existing functionalities from numerous distribution, transmission, asset management and other enterprise systems including advanced metering infrastructures, meter data management systems, customer information systems, billing systems, outage management systems, geographic information systems, work management systems, energy and distribution automation management systems, SCADA, mobile workforce systems, supply chain management systems and other enterprise applications.

Real-time integration with single and consistent view of information and data throughout the organization provides for the development of new processes and capabilities such as Load Curtailment, Self Healing, Fault location detection and restoration, remote connect and disconnect, advance billing, time of usage and variable rate billing and other such demand management programs.

FAME™ Enterprise Smart Grid Platform provides you with a foundation for IT and a Reference Enterprise Architecture as a To-Be state.

FAME™ Reference Architecture

FAME Integration Architecture: Integration architecture and Integration modules to integrate new off-the-shelf systems (COTS)and applications -- both existing and new -- like AMI/AMR, OMS, DMS, GIS, CIS, WMS, SCADA and others based upon Loosely Coupled Architecture (LCA) and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA).
FAME Application Architecture: Application architecture that provides a unified environment to develop enterprise services and functionality like Self Healing, Load Curtailment and others. BRIDGE offers a unique capability that allows your non-SOA developers within your organization, who have SME expertise, to develop business functionality that may be specific to your organization.
FAME Security Architecture: NERC CIP and ISO compliant Security architecture and modules that enable you to unify your security across all domains of your organization -- including applications, databases and infrastructure.
FAME Data Architecture: BRIDGE offer a foundation data model that enables you to unify your enterprise data. Our Enterprise Data Model is based upon CIM and includes a Canonical Data Model for enterprise integration. Organizations not using CIM can leverage their own data models as opposed to CIM.
FAME Data Warehouse Architecture: A data warehouse architecture to deliver Smart Grid analytics. The data warehouse can be leveraged by both organizations and customers. Utilities can leverage the warehouse to improve grid reliability and to improve customer service. Utilities can generate trend reports, perform historic analysis, conduct time-sensitive planning, create pricing models and perform predictive analysis for improved grid reliability. Customers can run historic reports, understand their usage patterns and improve overall quality of service.