EDIST 2010

Understanding Operational Data Store (ODS) Benefits and Challenges

Part 1 - A Users Perspective
January 21, 2010

Herbert Haller P.Eng. VP Engineering & Stations Waterloo North Hydro

About Waterloo North Hydro Inc.

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Service the City of Waterloo, Township of Woolwich and Township of Wellesley ~ 15th Largest LDC in Province Service Area 673 sq km Peak demand - 267 MW 51,000 customers 112 employees $133 million in Fixed Assets

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Evolution of Information Systems @ WNH

CIS Manual Meter MVRS Reading (books) Electronic Meter Reading Billing & Customer CIS Information Billing & Customer Information LAN Corp GIS Eng / Ops

ERP Corp

Smart Metering Billing / Ops / Eng

Work Force Management Ops SCADA Ops / Eng

LOAD FLOW Eng

Why ODS ? SMI Pushed us

Tower Gateway Base Station (TGB) Service Centre

SENSUS SMI
Interval Data & Operational Data (JMS)

Information Technology
0M 90 Hz

Its NOT just about CIS and Billing any more

(TGB) MS23

(TGB) ERTS

Regional Network Interface (RNI) 60 day Data Storage Toronto

WNH CIS

(TGB) CrossHill

Central MDMR (IESO)

What are we struggling with ?

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Tons of data / little information at hand Multiple copies of data Poor formatting/ trending capabilities for general user Manual information gathering and reporting processes Multiple independent system accesses to perform business analysis reporting. Poorly formatted and incomplete reports on native systems.

WHY an ODS ?
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A means to handle the large volumes of operational and billing data coming from the SMI and turn it into usable information. The ability archive consumption and operational data from the SMI for Engineering & Operational analysis. The ability to develop intelligent tools to analyze the data to verify operational effectiveness of the SMI. The ability to house data/information not resident in any of our native systems. The ability to provide tools sets not resident in any of the native systems.

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Objectives of Information Systems

From a Users perspective;
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Barrier Free Access to all data across all native systems. Create Intelligence needed to optimize the gathering and analysis of data from all systems. The ability to turn data into information through Business Intelligence tool sets. Provide Presentment of information in the format needed to work effectively. Minimize / eliminate the need for Duplication of data

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Future of Data Systems @ WNH

CIS Billing & Customer Information

MVRS Electronic Meter Reading

SCADA Operational

LAN Eng Ops

GIS Eng Ops

DYNAMIC GATEWAY
USER ACCESS Operational and Transaction Information Business Intelligence OMS Operational LOAD FLOW Engineering Operation

ODS Operational

ERP Finance / Eng / Ops

Smart Metering Billing / Operational

Work Force Management Operational

EDIST 2010

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