Manage Risk in AMI Deployments

摘要

Proper focus on technical, operational and logistical risks leads to meter-deployment project success. AUTOMATED METERING INFRASTRUCTURE IS ONE OF THE MOST COSTLY INVESTMENTS a transmission and distribution company will make. As witnessed in several recent large utility deployments, the costs of a fixed network system, coupled with a meter-data-management solution, represent an investment of hundreds of million dollars. Inherently complex, a major automated metering infrastructure (AMI) implementation faces risks at many levels - technical, operational and logistical. Once a commitment is made, risk management deserves as much attention and as much focus as any other aspect of the project. A risk-management plan should be part of the overall assessment of a decision to invest in AMI infrastructure.