Network Planning Leveraging and Optimization insight for effective Network Operations Highlights > Integration with work order systems empowers planners to understand the current state of the network, how it is being deployed in real time, and the effect of the communications infrastructure. > Flexible and customizable interactive workbenches and operational monitoring screens provide clear and contextualized information. > The ability to overlay network technology options on planning charts and service territory maps provides a critical decision making tool. Benefits > Linking demand forecasting with network planning helps ensure the most efficient use of resources. > Seamless integration with the Grid Director Network Control for Demand Response and Distributed Generation application empowers the utility to build network plans that take advanced capacity programs into account. > One consolidated view of the network with prediction analysis mitigates network connectivity risk, helping ensure a stable meter-to-cash system. Building out the most efficient network The Network Planning and Optimization application offers telecommunication and network teams the benefit of planning, tracking and optimizing the network through the presentation of a sophisticated analysis layer including a contextualized view of the communication infrastructure and all other relevant data - consoloidated from numerous systems. Features such as RF propagation analysis, what-if analysis, plan versus actual comparison, and optimization reporting are included in the application, aiding in initial planning, and ongoing buildout of the grid. All major features are fully interactive on the Grid Director workbenches, and the geospatial map provides an ideal model for end-to-end planning and optimization exercises and tracking to plans. The utility never loses sight of the status of the network, and the options available to increase its performance at the most sustainable cost of operations. With contextual overlays, what-if analysis, integration of expert rules and instant calculations providing feedback on different scenarios, planning the telecommunication network becomes an exercise in optimization. The utility has constant clear and complete visibility into its communication options, can track its plans effectively, and adjust them as needed. GD-APPL-NETPLAN-0410 The Grid Director Network Planning and Optimization application provides a toolset that integrates all network elements together providing a unified planning platform. With the ability to model different network coverage options on a geospatial map, designers can more quickly get from planning to network design with information that is accurate and up to date. > Map based visualizations make identification of potential network coverage enhancements easy, and timely - from the beginning of network planning, well into deployment. > A sophisticated analysis layer with customizable dashboards and KPIs integrates data relating to all communication infrastructure for flexible consolidated or disaggregated filtered views. > Plan vs actual network design comparisons enable network designers to make sure the network is being deployed as expected, and how any relevant conditions may have changed - in terms of timing, conenctivity, cost or other relevant factors. Layering in potential plans for build-out helps the utility weigh the advantages and disadvantages of various models, to select the best path forward. > Full support of industry standards with the integration tools to support legacy networks means that the application can grow as utility needs evolve. > Virtual network design simulations make the entire planning exercise clearer, more controlled, and more easily tracked. Key Features Network Scenario Modeling Layering potential network technology plans into ‘living models’ helps the utility weigh the advantages and costs of various network strategies, both in capital outlay as well as ongoing network expenses. Network Planning Support Correlating network plans with events from deployed assets mitigates network connectivity risk and lends insight to how the network is actually being formed on the ground. Integration with work order systems provides even closer insight. Integrated Insight Integration with all network technology equipment assures that the application has access to complete information including speed, range, and cost of operation. Advanced Permissions About Bit Stew Systems Inc. Bit Stew Systems is the creator of the market leading platform for Software Defined Operations for the Industrial Internet. Bit Stew’s revolutionary information processing engine, MIx Core™ enables complex event processing, advanced analytics and sophisticated machine-intelligence. The MIx Core technology has proven scalability to provide end-to-end operational visibility for billions of connected devices and trillions of data points—making it the ideal platform for the Industrial Internet. This same MIx Core technology can also be embedded in devices, gateways and routers for intelligence and automation directly at the edge of the network. Discrete views for planners, operators, and business owners is driven by powerful user types with inherited permissions, empowering all stakeholders with the right information at the right time. Bit Stew’s flagship product solution, Grid Director™ is built on MIx Core and designed specifically to meet the exacting demands of the utility industry. Grid Director offers customers complete visibility and control of their networks enabling more agile and informed decision-making that improves reliability, efficiency and performance. Grid Director provides real-time analytics, pattern recognition, dynamic event management, and rapid integration across enterprise systems and applications. Incorporated in 2009, Bit Stew Systems is a venture-backed private company that is headquartered in Canada with offices in the USA, Australia and Europe. Bit Stew was named on the Gartner Cool Vendors in Energy & Utilities list for 2014 and the Frost & Sullivan Entrepreneurial Company of the Year – North American Service Solutions for Utilities. CANADA - International Headquarters Suite 205 - 7436 Fraser Park Drive, Burnaby, BC, V5J 5B9 (604) 568-5999 [email protected] USA 800 West El Camino Real, Suite 180 Mountain View, CA 94040 (650) 619-9000 [email protected] Follow us on LinkedIn & Twitter: @grid_director AUSTRALIA Rialto South Tower, Level 27, 525 Collins Street Melbourne, Australia 3000 [email protected] Learn more at bitstew.com EUROPE Paseo de la Castellana 141 – 8º 28046 Madrid, Spain [email protected]