LiveData Utilities Introduces RTI InfluxDB, an Integrated Historian Platform for Data Collection and Analysis on the Smart Grid

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–#SCADA–LiveData Utilities, a leader in smart grid integration technology, today
introduced RTI InfluxDB, a time-series database for Operational
Technology (OT). RTI InfluxDB enables utilities to fulfill their
customers’ demands for cost effective, high-performance time series data
collection, analysis, publishing, logging and archiving.

A full-featured Open Source time-series database (historian), RTI
InfluxDB employs RTI Server as the communications hub for Operational
Technology (OT) and Industrial Internet of Things (IIOT) data from any
source. With RTI InfluxDB, utilities can collect data from virtually any
utility device or system using a wide arrange of protocols including
ICCP, Modbus, DNP3, OPC, 61850 and many more. RTI InfluxDB provides a
fully scalable, cost-effective, field proven solution that can be
deployed on premise or in a public or private cloud.

“Because the electric grid has evolved over the decades, and equipment
life spans can be decades, it comprises a wide variety automated
devices, standards and protocols. It can’t be unplugged and replaced
with one solution that can communicate across all screens or locations,”
said Brad Harkavy, General Manager of LiveData Utilities. “Now, RTI
InfluxDB enables smart grid applications and IIoT analytics, accurately
recreates dynamic datasets, and leverages data across platforms,
resulting in a more reliable grid with faster time to resolving any
problems.”

RTI InfluxDB provides the data needed for analytics and business
intelligence, simplifying the process of gathering operational data for
determining various system averages, efficiencies and losses, as well as
strategizing for improvements, procurement and rate case filings. It
enables utilities to employ analytics tools such as Tableau or open
source Grafana Labs with InfluxDB to deliver real-time, customized
visual analytics.

In addition, utilities can combine InfluxDB with LiveData RTI GAM™ to
enable operations management and control room operators to visualize the
current state of generation assets as well as time-series data in a
single solution.

RTI InfluxDB is part of LiveData Utilities suite of high-availability
solutions and services for the utilities industry. With deployments both
in the United States and abroad, the company’s clients enjoy the reduced
costs and reduced complexity of its solutions along with the virtually
limitless ability of customization.

The product is being shown for the first time at the DistribuTECH 2018
Conference & Exhibition, Jan. 23-25 in San Antonio, Texas, DistribuTECH
is the largest annual transmission and distribution event in the world.
In its booth, #2668, LiveData Utilities is also demonstrating its latest
smart grid integration technologies, including:

• RTI Generation Asset Manager, an HTML5 real-time visualization and
  historian tool that is being widely adopted across the utilities
  industry;
• RTI Asset ID Manager, which provides automated asset ID management
• RTI Platform – control room grade dataflow engine
• RTI Configuration Manager – a streamlined dataflow configuration tool

About LiveData Utilities
The explosion of Distributed Energy
Resources (DERs) and the disparate energy management systems required to
manage a fleet of DERs is forcing a revolution in how enlightened
organizations are architecting the complex system of systems which make
up the Smart Grid today. LiveData Utilities (LDU) RTI Server Platform is
the industry leading, real-time OT solution to manage this forever
increasing complexity.

LDU’s OT real-time middleware solutions are reducing systems integration
time, resources and the long-term cost of integration maintenance. LDU
products and services future proof utilities’ architecture by creating a
standard middleware interface that eases the integration of tomorrow’s
systems and devices.

RTI Server is frequently used for ISO, SCADA, OMS, GMS, EMS, ADMS, DCS,
DEMS, automated device, data analytics cloud applications and
multi-protocol integrations including ICCP, DNP3, Modbus, MultiSpeak,
OPC, and Web Services.

Founded in 1991, LiveData is headquartered in Cambridge, MA. For more
information, visit livedatautilities.com.

NOTE: RTI InfluxDB, RTI Server, and RTI GAM are trademarks of LiveData,
Inc. All other marks are the property of their respective owners, and
are used for identification purposes only.

Contacts

For LiveData Utilities
Edward Bride, 413-442-7718
[email protected]