Aug 16, 2010
Open Systems International, Inc. (OSI) and Milsoft successfully passed interoperability tests for interfaces between OSI's monarch™ (Multi-platform Open Network ARCHitecture) SCADA and Distribution Management platform and Milsoft's DisSPatch and Windmil products in compliance with MultiSpeak 3.0 standards. The monarch platform is a modern control system architecture for supporting the monitoring, controlling, scheduling and optimization of complex network operations for the electric, oil and gas, transportation, and water industries.
Milsoft's Outage Management System (OMS), DisSPatch, uses the interface to retrieve breaker operations as well as substation voltages and currents from monarch in order to detect outage events or restorations. Through the interface, the monarch system can also actively detect outages and restorations as they occur and relay those notifications to the DisSPatch OMS in real-time, allowing the location of service interruptions to be more quickly identified and repaired.
Similarly, Milsoft's Windmil product can also retrieve breaker operations, as well as substation voltages and currents, from monarch through the interface to run the fault locator utility or (in the case of feeder current data) to run a load allocation study.
About OSI
OSI provides open, state-of-the-art and high-performance automation solutions to utilities worldwide. These solutions include Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems, Network Management Systems (NMS), Energy Management Systems (EMS), Distribution Management Systems (DMS) and Generation Management Systems (GMS); as well as individual software and hardware products and smart grid solutions for utility operations. OSI is headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.
www.osii.com
About Milsoft
Milsoft has provided powerful software solutions for power system professionals in over 1,000 rural electric cooperatives, municipalities, educational institutions, and consultant offices in the United States and abroad. Milsoft offers a suite of software solutions including Engineering Analysis, Outage Management, Integrated Voice Response, Geospatial Information Systems and Field Engineering to optimize utility performance and efficiency. Milsoft has developed an outstanding reputation for delivering quality products, services and support to the electric utility industry for over two decades and continues to thrive on product innovation and superior customer support.
www.milsoft.com
About MultiSpeak
The MultiSpeak Specification is an industry-wide software standard that facilitates interoperability of diverse business and automation applications used in electric utilities. It has been developed and maintained by a collaboration of NRECA and the 50 software vendors and consultants that are members of the MultiSpeak Initiative.
www.multispeak.org
