systems. Science and Technology Policy initiated the Green Button Initiative, SMT incorporated the Green Button icon on Customer pages in the SMT web portal. If the ZigBee SEP 2.0 HAN communication protocol is adopted by the TDSPs in the future, the APIs may be modified to reflect this change. Additional innovation will be enabled when Third Parties are granted access to SMT functionality by the end of 2014. Scalability Architectures should include SMT was initially developed as a architectural elements that are common data repository for appropriate for the applications that CenterPoint Energy and Oncor and was reside within them. The architectures later expanded to include AEP Texas must support development of massively and TNMP. It is segregated so that scaled, well-managed, and secure each TDSP has access to only the systems with life spans appropriate for meter data of their Customers. Access the type of system, which range from 5 to usage information initially was only to 30 years. given to Customers and their ROR. By the end of 2014, SMT will be expanded to include Third Parties giving them the opportunity to offer innovative energy management products to Customers. Legacy Architectures should support legacy SMT supports the use of the LodeStar system integration and migration. Enhanced (LSE) file format for transmitting energy usage information since this format was currently in use by ERCOT and the TDSPs. Security Architectures should support the SMT has the capability to resist capability to resist unwanted intrusion, unwanted cyber intrusion through the both physical and cyber. This support use of common information security must satisfy all security requirements of technologies and practices and it the system components. satisfies the NIST IR security requirements for this type of system. (See Section 9)
systems. Science and Technology Policy initiated the Green Button Initiative, SMT incorporated the Green Button icon on Customer pages in the SMT web portal. If the ZigBee SEP 2.0 HAN communication protocol is adopted by the TDSPs in the future, the APIs may be modified to reflect this change. Additional innovation will be enabled when Third Parties are granted access to SMT functionality by the end of 2014. Scalability Architectures should include architectural elements that are appropriate for the applications that reside within them. The architectures must support development of massively scaled, well-managed, and secure systems with life spans appropriate for the type of system, which range from 5 to 30 years. SMT was initially developed as a common data repository for CenterPoint Energy and Oncor and was later expanded to include AEP Texas and TNMP. It is segregated so that each TDSP has access to only the meter data of their Customers. Access to usage information initially was only given to Customers and their ROR. By the end of 2014, SMT will be expanded to include Third Parties giving them the opportunity to offer innovative energy management products to Customers. Legacy Architectures should support legacy system integration and migration. SMT supports the use of the LodeStar Enhanced (LSE) file format for transmitting energy usage information since this format was currently in use by ERCOT and the TDSPs. Security Architectures should support the capability to resist unwanted intrusion, both physical and cyber. This support must satisfy all security requirements of the system components. SMT has the capability to resist unwanted cyber intrusion through the use of common information security technologies and practices and it satisfies the NIST IR security requirements for this type of system. (See Section 9)
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