Gateware

Aidon Gateware, as the reading system of the Aidon AMR solution, is the heart of Aidon's open system architecture.

Aidon Gatware acts as a front end solution between the meter devices and the business systems. Gateware reads metering information as well as logs and status information, from the AMR meters and makes this information available to the business system. Gateware is also responsible for possible configuration changes for the AMR meters during operation time.

The main processes of Aidon Gateware are the following:

• Data Collecting and Export Engines, which collect metering data from the AMR meters and export the data to the business system
• Database, which manages all the data in the system
• System Monitoring, which checks the health and performance of all system components
• System Control, which has overall control over Gateware

Gateware is designed to be transparent in terms of communication. This means that only the minimum number of services for the chosen system communication are built into the core system. All the communication and protocol-specific items are introduced to the system as drivers.

Aidon AMR solutions have been developed with the life cycle of both the whole AMR system and its individual components in mind. Open system architecture enables lower life cycle costs by emphasizing the business system's role as the system master and opening the AMR functionalities for competition between best partners. Aidon Gateware organises the various independent system modules into a system which is exceptionally functional and effective, yet also open, replaceable and scaleable.

Gateware concentrates on one specific task in the metering system, collecting data. This makes it easy to integrate with business systems. Operational control can be done from business system of using Gateware's own user interface.

The size of the Aidon AMR system can vary from hundreds to hundreds of thousands of metering points. The Gateware processes can be distributed within the system to increase the performance of the system, thus enlarging the size of the whole system as necessary.