System & Field Acceptance Testing

Successful smart metering projects conduct a field test prior to full scale deployment. Enspiria Solutions conducts system and field acceptance testing using the ESIntial™ Metrics Tool.

Enspiria's system and field acceptance test clients include Alliant Energy, PHI, Portland General Electric, and SDG&E.

The primary goal of field testing in a smart metering project is to verify the system's ability to achieve the benefits identified in the smart metering business case, as well as to meet the functional and performance requirements agreed to in the SLAs from the vendor statement of work (SOW).

A secondary goal of field testing is to provide hands-on experience with a smart metering system. Successful execution of field testing is often a contract gate for proceeding with mass deployment.

Enspiria Solutions offers system and field testing services for utilities that are piloting and deploying smart metering and MDMS technology.

The ESIntialT Metrics Tool

Tools that analyze and display system performance data are valuable during the testing of a smart metering solution and later while deploying the solution. This is particularly true when reporting results and keeping stakeholders in the loop.

Enspiria Solutions has developed the ESIntial Metrics Tool to provide the data analytics and to communicate the performance validation analytic results for smart metering technology. The analytics are executed utilizing the vendor's smart metering data collection head-end(s) and the selected meter data management system (MDMS) for source data.