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ami and its inteGration with dms
However, a well-defined solution that provides sufficient scalability
to manage such a meter dataset is in the development phase in both
theory and practice.
4.3 e Standardization of the AMI
In the current market, smart meters from different vendors are gener-
ally noninteroperable. For most utilities, deploying millions of smart
meters is a long-term investment, which means that once a utility
adopts smart meters from an AMI vendor, it must follow up with
related products from the same vendor for the sake of compatibility.
However, utilities are reluctant to be bound to a certain meter vendor,
especially in the early stages of smart grid development.
Enabling interoperability between AMI products from differen ...