Streaming ingestion
Interval reads, register reads, and signals stream in continuously — every payload traceable, a dead-letter queue the team can inspect and replay, and full support triage tooling.
Core platform · MDMS
Grid Data Management Platform From AMI reads to certified bills — and everything the meter data touches.
A complete Meter Data Management System: streaming ingestion, full-cycle VEE with weather-aware estimation, an exception workbench, master data kept in step with your systems of record, and certified, immutable data served to billing, outage operations, gas, device commands, market settlement, analytics, and regulators.
Streaming
AMI Ingestion at Scale
Full-cycle VEE
Validate · Estimate · Act
Electric + Gas
One platform, Commodity-aware
Billing-grade
Certified · Immutable · Auditable
The core of the family
The system of record between the meter and the bill
Everything a utility decides — what to bill, how to treat reads through an outage, which device to disconnect, what to settle with the market — is only as good as its meter data. GDMP exists to make that data trustworthy: ingested without loss, validated by explicit rules, estimated transparently, worked through a real exception workbench, and served consistently to every consumer — then certified into bills that never change without a revision trail.
VEE engine
Register, interval, cross-channel, and extreme-value validation; weather-aware estimation; and action rules that estimate, flag, open exceptions, notify, or raise service orders — every decision explained.
Weather-aware estimation
Estimates that take the weather into account, each one transparent and auditable back to the read it replaced.
Exception workbench
A workbench for the exceptions VEE raises: assignment pools and rules, escalation policies, manual override and suppression, bulk resolution, trends, and a map.
Master data sync
Customers, contracts, premises, devices, and channels kept in step with the systems of record — validated, traceable, with full history and audited recovery for anything that failed.
One consistent answer
VEE, Billing, Outage, Gas, dashboards, and APIs all see the same current answer for every meter and every day — no competing versions of the truth.
Billing module
Determinants for energy, demand, TOU, reactive, ratchet, CPP/RTP, and special contracts; certification and cycle close; CIS export with acknowledgments; daily extract; rebill, dispute, and hold; NEM credits; an immutable audit trail; and parallel reconciliation for cutover.
Outage module
Outages as managed records in their own right; outage-aware VEE treatment; holds and automatic reprocessing on restoration; outage-linked exception resolution; PSPS handling; and a command center with map.
Gas commodity
Pressure districts, governed conversion factors, gas-specific derivation and VEE, safety events, unaccounted-for gas, gas billing certification, dashboards, and a library of standard reports.
Coordinated Control Operations
Device commands — disconnect, reconnect, on-demand reads, pings — coordinated with assignments, device criticality, request statistics, and billing.
Virtual & unmetered meters
Formula-driven virtual meters, submeter and check-meter context, and unmetered supply — the network the utility actually has.
Search & master-data workspace
Fast global, master-data, and exception search; analyst inquiry over customers, premises, devices, and attributes with comments, tags, and personalization — with Whisper-Wind embedded for plain-English questions.
Operations Monitor
A standalone, read-only monitoring application: pipeline health, backlog, processing metrics, logs, dashboards, and an alert catalog with drill-down.
Market settlement
A companion settlement service: zonal load and forecasts, capacity tag sets and peak events, LMP, UFE and loss factors, supplier tranches, approvals and market submissions — from the same certified usage the bills came from.
Rate analysis
What a customer’s actual interval usage would cost under alternative rate schedules — analyzed from the platform’s own data.
Admin, security & deployment
Bill cycles, day types, rate schedules, retention, and system configuration under single sign-on with data isolation; a client configuration workbook, readiness gates, and rollback runbook for every new deployment.
Field operations & Green Button
Manual reads, meter tests, service actions, and regulated data sharing with privacy aggregation.
Admin & access control
A feature catalog with role-based access, feature groups, and per-role navigation — all under single sign-on.
How it works
See it, end to end
Step 1
Ingest
Head-end systems stream reads and signals in; every payload is captured and traceable, with a dead-letter queue the team can inspect and replay.
Step 2
Assemble
Reads are tied to the right customer, premise, device, and channel, kept in step with the systems of record.
Step 3
Validate & act
The VEE engine validates, estimates, and acts; findings become estimates, flags, exceptions, notifications, or service orders, with outage policy applied to affected days.
Step 4
Serve
Every downstream consumer reads one consistent, current answer for every meter and every day.
Step 5
Certify & deliver
Billing determinants are certified and exported to CIS, daily extracts flow, settlement and analytics draw from the same data — every step observable in the Operations Monitor.
Use cases
Where Grid Data Management Platform earns its keep
AMI rollout backbone
Collect, validate, and store data from every smart meter as the utility’s authoritative meter data repository.
Billing-grade data supply
Deliver certified determinants to CIS with every estimate, edit, rebill, and hold auditable — and prove parity against the legacy system before cutover.
Outage-aware operations
Treat meter data correctly through outages and PSPS events, reprocess on restoration, and close the exceptions an outage caused in bulk.
Multi-commodity operations
Run electricity and gas on one platform, with commodity-specific derivation, VEE, safety, and billing where it matters.
Remote device operations
Coordinate disconnects, reconnects, and on-demand reads on the same governed platform.
Retail and wholesale settlement
Settle supplier load against market data from the same certified usage the bills came from.
Regulatory compliance
Green Button sharing, privacy aggregation, and full audit trails for regulator-ready reporting.
Revenue assurance
Spot missing reads, stuck meters, and estimation drift before they become revenue leakage.
Better together
Part of the Grid Data Family
Every family application shares one identity platform, one design system, one registration pattern, and one deployment path.
Feeds GDMP realistic AMI, SCADA, and CIS streams in every test environment.
Connects GDMP to SAP, head-ends, and enterprise systems.
The network-side view beside GDMP’s meter-side core.
Verifies every GDMP release against live APIs.
Proves a GDMP go-live against the MDMS it replaces.
FAQ
Common questions about Grid Data Management
What is the Grid Data Management Platform?
The Grid Data Management Platform (GDM) is PeriNimble's meter data management system (MDMS). It ingests interval reads, register reads and meter events from AMI head-end systems, validates, estimates and acts on them with full-cycle VEE, and serves certified, immutable data to billing, outage operations, gas, market settlement, analytics and regulators.
What does GDM's VEE engine do?
Validation covers register, interval, cross-channel and extreme-value checks. Actions then estimate, flag, open exceptions, notify or raise service orders, and every decision comes with its explanation. Estimation is weather-aware, and every estimate is auditable back to the read it replaced.
Does GDM calculate billing determinants?
Yes. It calculates determinants for energy, demand, time-of-use, reactive, ratchet, CPP/RTP and special contracts; certifies and closes bill cycles; and exports to your CIS with acknowledgments. Rebills, disputes and holds are supported, with immutable ledgers and a full revision trail.
Does GDM support gas as well as electric?
Yes. Gas is a first-class commodity, with pressure districts, governed conversion factors, gas VEE, safety events, unaccounted-for gas and gas billing certification.
Can we move to GDM from our existing MDMS?
Yes. The Grid Data Conversion Testing Tool runs GDM beside your existing MDMS on identical inputs and shows, output by output, whether switching would change bills, settlement or operations in any way you have not agreed to. PeriNimble's services team runs MDMS upgrades and data migrations with correctness validated across billing, settlement and historical data.
How is GDM secured and deployed?
Access is governed by single sign-on, role-based permissions and data isolation. Every deployment comes with a configuration workbook, readiness gates and a rollback runbook, and runs on your infrastructure or ours. PeriNimble is ISO 27001:2022 and SOC 2 compliant.
See Grid Data Management Platform live
A working demonstration takes thirty minutes — on our environment or yours, with realistic simulated data.
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