Greenbird Integration Technology

Utilihive is a cloud-native big data integration platform, purpose-built for the digital data-driven utility, offered as a managed service (SaaS).

Utilihive is the leading Enterprise-iPaaS (iPaaS) that is purpose-built for energy and utility usage scenarios.

Utilihive provides both the technical infrastructure platform (connectivity, integration, data ingestion, data lake, API management) and pre-configured integration content or accelerators (connectors, data flows, orchestrations, utility data model, energy data services, monitoring and reporting dashboards) to speed up the delivery of innovative data driven services and simplify operations.

• Connectivity with support for commonly used standards such as REST, SOAP, https, (s)ftp, JMS, JDBC, Apache Kafka, mqtt and many others
• Cloud connectivity with support for widely used cloud services such as Azure IoTHub, Google Pub/Sub, Amazon SQS, Amazon S3, Redshift and many others
• System connectivity with support for utility applications such as Meter Data Collection or Head End System (HES, MDC), Meter Data Management (MDM), Customer Care & Billing (CC&B) and CRM, Geospatial Information System (GIS), SCADA, Distribution Management System (DMS), Asset Management (AM), Workorder Management (WOMS) or Field Service System and many others.
• Data validation, transformation, formatting and mappings
• Reliable message handling and routing
• Data flow and integration process orchestration
• Data and Message Storage for event sourcing or message replaying
• Integrated API Gateway 
• DataOps with end-2-end monitoring and management of all integration artefacts
• (F)Lowcode DSL to configure and model integration logic
• Software Development Kit (SDK) to deliver custom integration artefacts

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Utilihive SMOC is a centralized smart meter operations center that provides real-time, end-to-end monitoring, analysis and management of utility systems and the entire metering value chain.

Utilihive SMOC combines data from the Head End System(s) (HES); network device, communication performance information, fault information from the telco provider, network topology information from the GIS and other reference data from the System-of-Records (SOR) to provide a holistic view of the AMI and communication network status.

Utilihive SMOC provides authorized users and operators tooling support tools to identify and analyze communication problems or failures using configurable filters for both list and map-based views to display alarms, events, or metering data.

CORE CAPABILITIES

SMOC offers a holistic view to monitor and manage daily operations including:

• Progress and quality measures of rollout and smart meter installation and rollout plans
• Status and quality measures of the AMI and communication network
• Real-time insight and transparency of low/mid voltage grid infrastructure
• Quality insights across all stakeholders in the entire metering value chain
• Quality of the IT operations, message exchange, system, and data integrations across all interconnected systems and applications
• Alerts, alarms and incident management

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Utilihive Datalake is a big data storage and analytics solution that integrates seamlessly with the energy sector, enabling utilities to deliver data-driven solutions and innovate energy services.

Utilihive Datalake provides a centralized data repository that focus on handling these domain specific entities:

• Master data - complete history of assets and business entities
• Readings - time series data from end devices such as meters
• Events - representing alerts and notifications

In addition, Utilihive Datalake can store and index arbitrary files, and maintains structural metadata over all data objects.

Core capabilities

Main capabilities of Utilihive Datalake are summarized below:

• Store and index raw data at scale for a low cost
• Powerful ETL and batch processing
• Flexible schema for inbound data objects - records are linked and structured upon time of use (schema-on-read)
• Highly configurable storage tiers and backends
• Classical data warehouse capabilities for selected entities relevant to utilities
• Cloud native and cloud agnostic