Network management system for customer energy portal

Abstract

The Energy Market Authority, in partnership with Singapore Power, has launched the

Intelligent Energy System (IES) pilot project in 2009. As the testing bed of intelligent

energy system project phase one, smart meters were installed in the NTU staff quarters.

To bring out the smart features in the smart meters, a web-based consumer energy portal

is developed. However, the developed consumer energy portal is unable to communicate

with the smart meters at present. Hence, the network management system is introduced

to provide a communication pathway between the smart meters and the consumer energy

portal. A database was designed for the consumer energy portal to store relevant

information from the smart meters through the network management system. The

consumer energy portal is currently capable of displaying energy consumption and

billing information for each registered energy consumers. Enhancement is made in such a

way that the administrator of the site is able to view the consolidated bill for all the

registered energy consumers.