Enable the authority to handle 4.9 million integrated records so far
DEWA launches smart grid enterprise service carrier project
Saeed Mohammed Al Tayer: "Managing facilities and services through smart systems, which contributes to making Dubai the happiest and smartest city in the world."
Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) launched the Smart Grid Corporate Services Transmission Project, with the aim of increasing the added value of business and enhancing the authority's readiness and flexibility to recover and deal with various circumstances.
Project Benefits
The project works to identify and enable electric vehicle charging, upload consumption data, transmit meter readings, notifications and events to the SAP platform, and transfer a large number of advanced meter infrastructure and information technology data and assets to the big data analysis platform (alerts and events). The project also allows processing 600 transactions per second, which enabled the authority to deal with 4.9 million integrated records so far, complete 61 interconnection services, and develop 44 services.
better future
Saeed Mohammed Al Tayer, Managing Director and CEO of Dubai Electricity and Water Authority, indicated that the authority is working to support Dubai's plans to employ digital transformation, smart grids, tools of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, and disruptive technologies, with their impacts on the energy and water sectors, and improving people's lives. and building a better future.
He added that the authority is constantly seeking to develop its advanced smart infrastructure in accordance with the highest international standards, with the aim of managing facilities and services through smart and interconnected systems based on the technologies of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, thus contributing to making Dubai the happiest and smartest city in the world.
He continued: "The smart grid constitutes an essential component of the authority's strategy to develop advanced infrastructure, as it includes programs with investments amounting to seven billion dirhams, which will be completed in short, medium and long-term stages until 2035. The strategy also includes several programs, the most important of which is an advanced infrastructure to measure data Electricity and water consumption, asset management, big data, and more.
systems integration
The Smart Grid Enterprise Services Carrier project includes the integration of seven specialized information technology systems: electric vehicle charging points management systems, advanced metering infrastructure, smart meter management system and advanced meter infrastructure, central control unit system, SAP system, and mobility. Dirasat application (initial launch), big data analysis - Asset Health Center.
The project also includes three operational technology systems: network management system, energy management system, and distribution management system.
Two million smart counters
Dubai Electricity and Water Authority, through its "Smart Applications through Smart Meters and Networks" initiative, has completed the installation of more than two million smart electricity and water meters in Dubai, which contributes to raising efficiency and rationalizing consumption, in addition to enabling customers to monitor their consumption at any time and from anywhere. .
To encourage the use of sustainable means of transportation, such as electric and hybrid vehicles, the authority provides, within its "Green Charger" initiative, more than 300 charging stations for electric vehicles throughout Dubai.
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