The presentation will go through some of the new applications that have been developed for the second generation of Smart Meters in the North American utility market. These AMI 2.0 applications go well beyond the original meter-to-cash functions of AMI 1.0 leading to that the Smart Meters in AMI 2.0 act as Grid Edge Intelligence control nodes in the two-way distribution grid that is capable of hosting an ever-increasing fleet of solar inverters, EV chargers and demand response use cases at the consumer household. We’ll show the new network requirements coming from some of these applications (e.g. transformer load management and closed loop EV charging) and how these are optimally mapped to the network capabilities available to utilities. An updated blueprint for AMI 2.0 deployments leveraging both private cellular network infrastructure and multiple last mile technologies is shown providing low latency for headend to device control communications as well as sufficient capacity for frequent data exchange at the edge to monitor the instantaneous load on each transformer.
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