How To Manage 150,000 Meters With A Staff Of Zero

SAIC, the $11 billion, McLean, VA-based contractor provides a wide range of information technology services. It does about 90% of its business with the government and the balance with private industry. SAIC has decades of experience serving the defense industry. That gives it deep expertise in security, large databases and complex event processing. Although not as well-known as some of its competing systems integrators, SAIC also has a lot of energy and utility experience.

SAIC is going to market with a new offering under the brand “Smart Grid as a Service.” Despite the name, the offering is really “metering as a service.” Although SAIC doesn’t claim that you can reduce your metering staff to zero, it does claim to manage all aspects. Targeted at municipals with 150,000 endpoints or less, it takes care of everything from planning the project to installing the meters to standing up the applications to running the operation 24x7x365. Key aspects include:· The meters
· The communications system
· Network management
· Meter data management
· Security
· Utility and customer portals
· Hooks into existing customer information systems

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DCL: We have written articles about this critical infrastructure application of CEP for a decade. But who should be entrusted with  the responsibility to “do it right”?