Implementation of

restructured APDRP
during 11 Five year
th

plan – Base Line Data

Collection System
APDRP Group
 APDRP proposed in 11th Plan
The schemes shall be executed in two parts –
Part-A :
 Part-A of the scheme shall consist of projects for
establishment of baseline Energy & Revenue data
including IT applications for Energy
Accounting/Auditing, Customer care solutions and
SCADA (Large cities).
Part-B :
 Part-B of the scheme shall consist of projects for
distribution system strengthening and up-gradation
works.
 Challenges Faced during 10th Plan
 Utilities are lacking the domain knowledge in IT.
 IT industry is not having the domain expertise of
the Distribution business – Resultant : trying to
push off the shelf, ill conceived solutions
available with them.
 The utilities adopted piecemeal standalone
solutions, difficult to integrate on common
platform.
 Utilities did not carry out business process re-
engineering / made process IT worthy, essentially
required for sustaining IT enablement.
 Resistance to change
 Implementation Methodology
 Utility has to identify no. of towns to be proposed for inclusion in
APDRP of 11th plan for subsequent preparation of detailed
project reports.
 For implementation of Baseline data collection system of the
Scheme, utility shall be provided a Comprehensive Bid document
covering Technical specification and contract conditions, which is
to be customized to meet utility specific requirements based on
existing business processes and assets in position. The Bid
document is under preparation and likely to be available
immediately after sanction of the scheme by Govt.
 As per requirement of the utility they may appoint one of the
consultants from empanelled accredited consultants for utility
specific customization of the document and handholding from
concept to commissioning of baseline data collection system.
 Utility shall also be provided a list of IT firms, who are capable of
taking up such complex IT projects and they may choose one of
these IT firms for implementation of the project through a process
of competitive bidding.
 Stepped Approach to create IT infrastructure
• Under 11th plan APDRP collection of baseline data without
human intervention and creation of GIS based indexing of
assets and customer is proposed to be mandatory for utility,
which will enable energy audit and accounting and setting up
of single window customer care center.
• Considering above SRS template proposes to create
centralized data center where database and application
server will reside and necessary IT infrastructure will be
established at the areas covered under APDRP scheme for
collecting base line data and also creates IT backbone in the
area of distribution business process to capture the benefits
of the investments on sustainable basis.
• The proposed facilities at data centre are scalable and utility
will have a option to cover the entire area at a later date with
least incremental cost .
 Scope of work-SRS
Establishment of
Centralized Data Center

1. Data Center
2. Circle Office
Creation of IT Infrastructures 3. Division Office
at : 4. Sub Division Office
5. Call Center
6. Substation

Creation of Infrastructure for

setting up of Customer care
center at identified towns

Setting up of LAN / WAN to Creation of GIS Platform with

establish connectivity at all Consumer Indexing and Asset
identified places Mapping

AMR Based data logging of

Integration of entire IT
System and Select Consumer
infrastructure
Meters
 Hardware Architecture
 Modular design
 Scaleable
 Expandable
 Adherence to industry standards
 Vendor neutral & technology
independent
 Data storage at central server
 Data backup & archiving facility
 Inter
net
VPN/
MPLS
Sub Station Cloud
DT

Call
Center
Data acquisition server
ID
Sub Division office S

Fire Wall
Radius Server Reverse Proxy
Fire Wall HQ/ other
acess
Interal
Offices Switch
Lan Interal
Lan
Core
IDS Core Mail Server DNS
Switch IDS LDAP
Switch
Web Server
GigabyteDual Lan

Distribution Switch

Db & CI Cluster
Db & CI Cluster for GIS & Map
for Applications

Interal
Lan San
San
switch
switch

NMS Server
` Application & GIS Server
Media
Library

`
Back Up Server
SAN Storage
Back Up Server
 Data center architecture
 Fault tolerant tier IV data center infrastructure
with simultaneous active distribution paths. All
hardware with duplicate power supply and
separate UPS with N+1 redundancy
 Data base and main application servers shall be
enterprise level SMP RISC / Itanium processor
based UNIX systems
 Data base servers shall be deployed in cluster fail
over mode and application servers in scale out
mode
 Data center shall be connected to other utility
offices through VPN WAN
 Data center architecture- Cont
 The Data base servers shall have access to the
common single database on an external central
storage through a switched Fiber Channel Storage
Area Network (SAN).
 The central storage shall support hardware based
(host independent) data replication to a remote DR
site and bi-directional data copy
 To achieve zero performance impact backup,
backup server will back up from the mirror copy of
the database
 Additionally the robotic controlled tape library shall
be central library of tapes for all the servers
offered in the system.
 WAN
 Creation of WAN Backbone, capable of carrying data
and voice and through secure VPN tunnel via internet.
 The Router shall have ISDN BRI Card for ISDN
connectivity in case of link failure.
 There will not be any connectivity in office hierarchy. All
utility offices shall be connected directly to the Data
centre.
 Minimum 2 Mbps VPN link for connection between Data
center and Utility HQ ( If data center is not located inside
HQ premises ) and subdivision offices. Other offices
shall be connected through 512 Kbps VPN link.
 Provision for upgrading band width
 Datacenter to have 2 Mbps internet leased line for web
server
IT infrastructure at other offices
 All Subdivisions shall have data
acquisition server fitted with front end
processor for data acquisition from
Feeder/ DT/ HT consumer meters at pre
defined interval.
 All offices shall have a LAN connected to
switches and Router for upward
connectivity to data center.
 IT infrastructure at S/s and DTs
 All Substations shall have a data logger PC which will collect
all S/s Meter data through RS 485 port of the meters through
a RS 485/ RS 232 data converter unit.
 The data logger data to be transmitted to data acquisition
server at sub division over GSM/CDMA/ PSTN lines.
 Data logger at substation will have on screen display of the
S/s SLD and energy balance and losses at Bus bar and
Transformers ( Both instantaneous and aggregated Value)
Moreover data logger will display voltage, current and
demand ( both maximum and minimum) .
 DTs and selected HT consumers (HT consumers of mixed
feeder) shall have meters with RS-232 ports and data
acquisition server at Subdivision shall poll meter data at
regular interval through GSM/ CDMA modems retrofitted on
meter RS 232 or optical port itself.
 All the Sub division servers shall push the entire incremental
meter data to data center during off-peak hours for
aggregation and MIS generation as per various hierarchical
requirement of the utility.
 Application packages
 The application packages designed for defining the various
business processes of the utility have been categorized in
three parts in SRS Template-
 Part-A (Modules essentially required by most of the
Utilities, since they do not possess these IT enabled
systems, like GIS based Consumer indexing, Asset
mapping and Network Analysis, Meter Data Acquisition,
Energy Audit, Customer care center, New connection,
Dismantling & disconnection, MIS )
 Part-B (M,B,C) - If M,B,C and other standalone software
solutions are in place, the bidder has to integrate the same
with the offered solution including design and supply of
necessary middleware. However, he shall supply
necessary software solution for M,B,C also, if the same is
not available with the utility or the existing system is not
integratable with offered solution.
 Part-C (Optional packages of Asset Mgmt. & Maintenance
Mgmt.)
 (Facilities to be created by owner)

Basic infrastructure and facilities for Data Center :

 All civil works of the Building, (data center/ Call center
etc) approx. area 500 Sq.Mt for data center or as per
requirement of bidder
 Precision Air Conditioning & ventilation system, Fire
fighting, access control system, Internal and External
electrification of data center building as per bidder’s
requirement
 Disaster recovery and Business continuity plan
 Supply of meters and development of web portal
 Interfaces between separate systems (internal &
external) shall be message based.
 Integration technologies must be industry proven
standards, scalable and shall provide for
extensive functionality.
 Web based Message oriented middleware and
Object Request Broker middleware technologies
shall be the preferred for integration of desperate
applications and databases within n-tier
architectures.
 It shall be possible to set various options and
logics of the system from a central location to
ease the system administration work.
 GIS based Customer and Asset
indexing and mapping
 Implementation of enterprise GIS based
application integrated with other business process
application such as energy audit, billing, Network
analysis, Customer care center, SCADA/ DMS
etc.
 Creation of indexed customer and asset data
base and mapping on GIS platform.
 Satellite imagery shall be used as base map and
physical survey map using DGPS/ Total Station
shall be geo referenced and digitized to create
accurate representation of utilities assets and
customers.
 Application Packages for Business
processes of utility
The application packages designed for defining the various
business processes of the utility have been categorized
in three parts in SRS, Section: G-2 -
 A: Modules essentially required by most of the Utilities,
since they do not possess these IT enabled systems, like
GIS based Consumer indexing, Asset mapping and Network
Analysis, Meter Data Acquisition, Energy Audit, Customer
care center, New connection, Dismantling & disconnection,
MIS
 B: (M,B,C) - If M,B,C and other standalone software
solutions are in place, the bidder has to integrate the same
with the offered solution including design and supply of
necessary middleware. However, he shall supply necessary
software solution for M,B,C also, if the utility so desires.
 C: Optional packages of Asset and Maintenance Mgmt.