1 Billion Smart-Meter Reads Per Hour? No Problem, Oracle Says - Greenbang - 0 views
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Oracle Utilities on 30 Sep 11Highlighting the performance of Oracle Utilities Meter Data Management 2.0.1, running with Oracle Exadata Database Machine X2-2 and Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud X2-2. The article notes that running Oracle's utilities meter data management software through its Database machine and cloud platform processed the equivalent of four consumption measurements per hour coming from 250 million advanced energy meters. The article also includes comments from Linda Jackman, group vice president of industry strategy, Oracle Utilities noting that new utilities technologies are bringing with them huge increases in data volumes and residential smart meters alone will increase the consumption data processed for billing purposes from 12 meter reads per year to 35,000 or more.