The development of an Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) or any other G3-PLC based Cyber-Physical System requires to go through several phases:
- Early phase: draw the objectives, understand the concepts and identify the relevant
technologies. - Design phase: define the system use-cases and features (requirements, performance,
constraints, privacy, security), design the system architecture and select the associated
communication technologies. - Development phase: define the devices and/or choose devices off-the-shelf, validate the
devices (conformance, performance), integrate and validate the system (interoperability,
performance). - Operation phase: define and execute the strategy of deployment, follow-up and improve the
level of service/performance (incl. troubleshooting), ensure the resilience of the cyber-
physical system.
Through all these phases, Trialog brings its more-than-10-years’ experience of Smart Metering and G3-PLC systems via dedicated services addressing the critical topics highlighted in the figure above:
- Training, PLC and telecom studies, G3-PLC best practices
- Proof of concept, prototyping
- Architecture, methodologies for interoperability, cybersecurity and data protection
- Integration of G3-PLC and DLMS/COSEM technologies
- Analysis and selection of best technical offers from suppliers
- Test and validation: conformance, interoperability, performance, test benches, test tools
- Network supervision, field troubleshooting, maintenance methodology
Useful references :
- Trialog is a Founding and Executive member of the G3 Alliance
- Trialog is a Partner of Think Smartgrids association
- Enedis Linky, 35 million G3-PLC smart meters: Trialog has been supporting Enedis on this
program since 2007 - Webinar explaining the new G3-PLC Hybrid technology