METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ANALYSIS OF INFRASTRUCTURE

• US 20130179202A1
• Filed: 01/05/2012
• Published: 07/11/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 01/05/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: General Electric Company
• Original Assignee: General Electric Company
• Inventors: Zaher, Neal Lewis, Joyce, Richard Patrick Jr., Snow, Richard Scott
• Granted Patent: US 8,751,291 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/7.11
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06315 Needs-based resource requirements planning or analysis
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/0637 Strategic management or analysis, e.g. setting a goal or target of an organisation; Planning actions based on goals; Analysis or evaluation of effectiveness of goals
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06375 Prediction of business process outcome or impact based on a proposed change
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/0639 Performance analysis of employees; Performance analysis of enterprise or organisation operations
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/0875 Itemisation or classification of parts, supplies or services, e.g. bill of materials
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/10 Tax strategies
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/06 Energy or water supply

Abstract

A method and a system for analyzing infrastructure are provided. In one embodiment, a system for analyzing infrastructure is provided. The system includes a grid intelligence quotient as a service (GIQAAS) system. The GIQAAS system includes an infrastructure data gathering system having a first input form configured to collect an economic data related to an infrastructure. The GIQAAS system further includes an economic modeling system configured to import the economic data and to derive an economic analysis based on the economic data. The GIQAAS system is configured to provide the infrastructure data gathering system to a first user for collection of the economic data, and to provide the economic modeling system to a second user for derivation of the economic analysis.

Claims

1. A system for analyzing infrastructure, comprising:

a processor configured to execute;

a grid intelligence quotient as a service (GIQAAS) system comprising;

an infrastructure data gathering system having a first input form configured to collect an economic data related to an infrastructure; and

an economic modeling system configured to import the economic data and derive an economic analysis based on the economic data, wherein the GIQAAS system is configured to provide the infrastructure data gathering system via an electronic communication that includes the infrastructure data gathering system to a first user for collection of the economic data, and to provide the economic modeling system to a second user for derivation of the economic analysis.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the infrastructure comprises a smart grid system infrastructure, and the first user comprises a purchaser of smart grid system infrastructure, a lessee of smart grid infrastructure, or a combination thereof, and the second user comprises a seller of smart grid system infrastructure, a lessor of smart grid infrastructure, or a combination thereof.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein the smart grid system infrastructure comprises at least one of an advanced metering infrastructure (AMI), an outage management system (OMS), a distribution management system (DMS), a geographic information system (GIS), a customer information system (CIS), an interactive voice response (IVR) system, a power plant component, a gas processing plant component, a water processing plant component, an electrical distribution grid component, a water distribution grid component, a gas distribution grid component, or a utililty control center component, or a combination thereof.

4. The system of claim 3, wherein the infrastructure data gathering system comprises a second input form configured to collect second inputs related to a first suite of offerings, and a third input form configured to collect third inputs related to a second suite of offerings, and wherein the first input form is configured to collect first inputs related to at least one of residential customers, or commercial customers, or a combination thereof.

5. The system of claim 4, wherein the first inputs comprise at least one of a cost per truck roll, a reconnect charge, a carry cost of post-pay, a bad debt, an inflation, a discount rate, an electric endpoint input, or a gas endpoint input, a water endpoint input, or a combination thereof.

6. The system of claim 4, wherein the second and the third inputs comprise cost and benefit inputs related to at least one of the advanced metering infrastructure (AMI), the outage management system (OMS), the distribution management system (DMS), the geographic information system (GIS), the customer information system (CIS), the interactive voice response (IVR) system, the power plant component, the gas plant component, the water plant component, the electrical distribution grid component, or the water distribution grid component, the gas distribution grid compnent, or a combination thereof.

7. The system of claim 4, wherein the second suite of offerings is provided by a single manufacturer.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein the economic modeling system comprises an economic model configured to process the economic data to derive the economic analysis, and wherein the economic model comprises at least one of an inflation forecast model, an operating cost model, a monthly revenue model, or a customer defaults model, a finance charges model, or a combination thereof.

9. The system of claim 8, wherein the economic analysis comprises a comparison between a first cost and a first benefit related to a first suite of infrastructure offerings, and a second cost and a second benefit related to a second suite of infrastructure offerings.

10. The system of claim 1, comprising a first spreadsheet having the infrastructure data gathering system and a second spreadsheet having the economic modeling system, or a first software system having the infrastructure data gathering system and a second software system having the economic modeling system, or a combination thereof.

11. A non-transitory machine readable media storing instructions, comprising:

instructions configured to transmit, via an electronic communication, an executable program configured collect an economic data from a first user related to a smart grid infrastructure;

instructions configured to import the economic data;

instructions configured to derive an economic analysis based on the economic data; and

instructions configured to present the economic analysis to a second user, wherein the economic analysis comprises an economic comparison between a first suite of smart grid infrastructure offerings and a second suite of smart grid infrastructure offerings.

12. The non-transitory machine readable media of claim 11, wherein the instructions configured to collect the economic data from the first user comprise instructions configured to collect first inputs related to at least one of residential customers, or commercial customers, or a combination thereof, second inputs related to the first suite of smart grid infrastructure offerings, and third inputs related to the second suite of smart grid infrastructure offerings, and the first user comprises a smart grid infrastructure purchaser, a smart grid infrastructure lessee, or a combination thereof.

13. The non-transitory machine readable media of claim 12, wherein the instructions configured to collect the first inputs related to at least one of residential customers, or commercial customers, or a combination thereof, comprise instructions configured to collect at least one of a cost per truck roll, a reconnect charge, a carry cost of post-pay, a bad debt, an inflation, a discount rate, an electric endpoint input, a gas endpoint input, or a water endpoint input, or a combination thereof.

14. The non-transitory machine readable media of claim 12, wherein the instructions configured to collect the second inputs and the third inputs comprise instructions configured to collect at least one of an advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) input, an outage management system (OMS), a distribution management system (DMS), a geographic information system (GIS), a customer information system (CIS), an interactive voice response (IVR) system, a power plant component, a gas plant component, a water plant component, an electrical distribution grid component, a water distribution grid component, or a gas distribution grid component, or a combination thereof.

15. The non-transitory machine readable media of claim 11, wherein the instructions configured to derive the economic analysis based on the economic data comprise instructions configured to use an economic model to process the economic data to derive the economic analysis, wherein the economic model comprises at least one of an inflation forecast model, an operating cost model, a monthly revenue model, a customer defaults model, or a finance charges model, or a combination thereof.

16. The non-transitory machine readable media of claim 11, wherein the instructions configured to present the economic analysis to the second user comprise instructions configured to display a first column of economic data related to the first suite of smart grid infrastructure offerings and a second column of economic data related to the second suite of smart grid infrastructure offerings, and a graph configured to visually graph the first column and the second column of economic data, and the second user comprises a smart grid infrastructure seller, a smart grid infrastructure lessor, or a combination thereof.

17. A method comprising:

calculating a monthly cost by using an inflation forecast model configured to derive an inflation and an infrastructure operating cost model configured to derive a smart grid infrastructure operating cost;

calculating an as-is net monthly revenue by using the monthly cost, a monthly revenue model configured to derive an operating monthly revenue, a customer defaults model configured to derive a customer default cost, and a finance charges model configured to derive a financing cost;

calculating a first net monthly revenue by using first inputs related to a first suite of smart grid infrastructure offerings;

calculating a second net monthly revenue by using second inputs related to a second suite of smart grid infrastructure offerings; and

presenting the as-is, first, and second monthly revenues for comparison.

18. The method of claim 17, wherein the first inputs are used by the inflation forecast model, the operating costs model, the monthly revenues model, the customer defaults model, the finance charges model, or a combination thereof, to calculate the first net monthly revenue.

19. The method of claim 17, wherein the second inputs are used by the inflation forecast model, the operating costs model, the monthly revenues model, the customer defaults model, the finance charges model, or a combination thereof, to calculate the second net monthly revenue.

20. The method of claim 17, wherein the first and the second inputs comprise cost and benefit inputs related to at least one of an advanced metering infrastructure (AMI), an outage management system (OMS), a distribution management system (DMS), a geographic information system (GIS), a customer information system (CIS), an interactive voice response (IVR) system, a power plant component, a gas plant component, a water plant component, an electrical distribution grid component, a water distribution grid component, or a gas distribution grid component, or a combination thereof.