In this paper, we consider a realistic and meaningful scenario in the context of smart grids where an electricity retailer serves three different types of customers, i.e., customers with an optimal home energy management system embedded in their smart meters (C-HEMS), customers with only smart meters (C-SM), and customers without smart meters (C-NONE). The main objective of this paper is to sup...

In its efforts to provide automated meter-reading services to the utility industry, Schlumberger faces the problem of deploying receivers efficiently. In a geographic region, the problem is to install the minimum number of receivers on existing utility poles so that all wireless meters in that region can transmit their readings to at least one. Schlumberger first encountered this large-scale pr...

Gas-lifted oil wells are susceptible to failure through malfunction of gas lift valves. This is a growing concern as offshore wells are drilled thousands of meters below the ocean floor in extreme temperature and pressure conditions and repair and monitoring become more difficult. Gas lift valves and oil well systems have been modeled but system failure modes are not well understood. In this pa...

Russia, with total production of 581 bcm (billion of cubic meters), is the world’s leading producer of gas. Despite that, however, the problems currently faced by its gas industry are many and significant. On one hand, questions are still being asked on the capacity of Gazprom, the national company, to face up to the considerable financial needs to renew the major gas deposits developed under t...

In order to meet ever-increasing customer service expectations, electric utilities must continuously improve the reliability of their electric distribution systems. Over the last decade, utilities have invested in digital technologies that give them near-real time readings on the health of their electric grid. This data is incredibly useful during major storm outages, but the flood of data pour...

The Los Angeles Smart Grid Project aims to use informatics techniques to bring about a quantum leap in the way demand response load optimization is performed in utilities. Semantic information integration, from sources as diverse as Internet-connected smart meters and social networks, is a linchpin to support the advanced analytics and mining algorithms required for this. In association with it...