Live Energy Connect

OT integration connects the systems, applications, devices, and data that utilities use to monitor and control the grid. It allows technologies such as supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA), advanced distribution management systems (ADMS), distributed energy resource management systems (DERMS), energy management systems (EMS), field devices, and other operational systems to securely exchange data and commands.

OT middleware for utilities is software that connects OT systems, applications, and devices so they can exchange and orchestrate data and commands. It provides an integration layer between technologies such as SCADA, ADMS, DERMS, field devices, and other grid systems, helping utilities improve interoperability and reduce the complexity of managing multiple point-to-point integrations.

Oracle Utilities Live Energy Connect is an OT-centric middleware platform that allows real-time communication between utility IT and OT systems. The platform provides an operational technology message bus (OTMB), protocol connectivity, asset ID management, and operational historian integration to connect applications and devices across the electric grid.

An OTMB is an integration layer that allows utility OT systems and devices to exchange operational data. Instead of relying on individual point-to-point interfaces, an OTMB provides a common architecture for connecting systems and their data. It helps utilities simplify integration and adapt as their technology environment changes.

Point-to-point integration creates a separate interface between each connected system, so complexity grows as more applications and devices are added. An OTMB provides a common integration layer through which multiple systems can exchange operational data, reducing the number of individual interfaces and making it easier to add, replace, or upgrade technologies.

Oracle Utilities Live Energy Connect can integrate operational technologies including SCADA, ADMS, DERMS, EMS, operational historians, field devices, distributed energy resources (DERs), microgrids, energy storage systems, and other OT applications and devices. It supports both Oracle and third-party technologies.

Oracle Utilities Live Energy Connect supports a broad range of utility and industrial communication protocols, including ICCP, OPC UA, DNP3, Modbus, MultiSpeak, REST, and web services. This protocol support helps utilities exchange operational data among systems and devices that use different communications technologies.

Yes. Oracle Utilities Live Energy Connect supports interoperability with Oracle and third-party operational technologies. Its OTMB architecture and protocol support help utilities connect existing systems and devices with new grid applications while preserving technology investments.

Oracle Utilities Live Energy Connect provides an OT integration layer that allows SCADA, ADMS, DERMS, and other grid systems to exchange operational data. This helps utilities connect technologies from different vendors and generations while supporting grid monitoring, control, analytics, and optimization.

Oracle Utilities Live Energy Connect can connect DERs and related technologies with utility operational systems. It supports communications with technologies such as distributed generation, microgrids, battery energy storage systems, customer DERs, EV chargers, aggregators, and third-party controllers, helping utilities incorporate DER data and control into grid operations.

An OTMB reduces integration complexity by replacing many custom point-to-point interfaces with a common integration layer for operational systems and devices. This can reduce the number of interfaces that utilities need to build and maintain, making it easier to connect, modify, replace, or upgrade operational technologies over time.

An OTMB helps utilities connect new grid technologies with existing operational systems without requiring every system to be directly integrated with every other system. This can simplify the integration architecture and help utilities introduce technologies such as ADMS, DERMS, DERs, and other grid applications while preserving existing investments.