Overview

Background

This project is the migration of the stand-alone desktop Meterology metering server application to an IS virtual environment

The Meterology metering system server gathers utility metering data for electricity, gas, water, heating and cooling and collates on a stand-alone server PC within E&B.

This data is manipulated on the server and bespoke Energy Consumption web pages are created for some of the larger energy consuming buildings throughout the estate.  These pages are displayed in real time on Plasma displays in the entrance areas of each building and inform users of their current and historic energy consumption and associated costs as part of the ongoing university energy awareness campaigns.

There are currently no automatic backup or disaster recovery facilities for this server – both events requiring time consuming manual intervention from the resident Control Systems Engineers who manage the system.

This project would provide a more robust and resilient system through automatic backups and the ability to transfer within the IS infrastructure in the event of potential disaster 

The system consists of the following key processes:

1. METERology retrieves data from meters and saves to SQL Server database

Additional information:

1. Backups required
2. Current PC has 8 GB RAM and 500 GB of hard disk
3. Requirement to ensure external access is available to server, for both Estates and Buildings staff and the external supplier METERology.
4. IS Apps to continue supporting the energy recording systems.
5. METERology monitors the metering usage of:

• gas
• water
• electricity
• heating
• cooling.

Scope

There is the requirement to migrate the current METERology system  from the existing Estates PC to a Virtualised Server on a supported IS Apps infrastructure

Objectives

 There is the requirement to migrate from the existing Estates PC to a Virtualised Server on a supported IS Apps infrastructure.

Deliverables

1. Deliver METERology to an IS Apps managed supported infrastructure  
2. Ability that METERology can continue to Send and Receive data on the new/changed server
3. Ability to add meters
4. Deliverables assumptions: No special hardware requirements, dongles, etc

Out of Scope

1. Service Level Agreement will not be included with this project. It will be covered by the Estates and Buildings programme as a whole.
2. Co-Sign will not be considered as the supplier would have to change Meterology to make this work, so it is out of scope

Benefits

• Automatic backups are taken.
• That the systems will now be run in a secure and supported IS Apps infrastructure.
• This project would provide a more robust and resilient system through automatic backups and the ability to transfer within the IS infrastructure in the event of potential disaster 

Success Criteria

• System continues to provide the service as is on the new infrastructure with no new issues.