Dive Summary:

• At least 30 major North American utilities have a long way to go before seeing a return on their smart meter investment, GTM Research indicates.
• According to its survey, more than 50% of those utilities said they have not integrated secondary smart meter functions such as outage management, voltage management or load planning.  Rather, most utilities are using AMI data for basic applications. Furthermore, “none of the employees spoken to were content with the extent to which their utility was leveraging AMI data,” GMT reports.
• Technical challenges include system integration, uncertain regulatory and macroeconomic conditions, and a lack of a common utility data model.

From the article:

“However, it is important to note that several progressive utilities have begun to adopt true enterprise solutions which incorporate AMI data in conjunction with myriad other data sources.”