AMI SYSTEM FOR DISTRIBUTION GRID

This was an industry academia collaboration project to introduce smart meters at LUMS for internal monitoring and control and carrying out studies on feasibility and potential benefits of smart meters and different smart metering infrastructures with specific focus on problems being faced in the local utilities distribution sector. Funding for this project was provided by Techlogix Pakistan Pvt. Ltd. (software services company), Microtech Industries Pvt. Ltd. and Mitsubishi Endowment fund at LUMS in renewable energy with support from Syed Bhais (meter manufacturers). A multi-vendor compliant MDM based prototype system was developed and deployed at LUMS. One key study targeted in this project was the use of smart meters to design load-shedding methodology without electricity outage in a multi meter vendor environment.