Ambient (News - Alert) Corporation announced that its AmbientNMS communications network management system can now be integrated into utilities’ Distribution and Outage Management System (DOMS) in order to provide better service to customers.

The integration of AmbientNMS into DOMS systems is purported to bring down the losses associated with utility outages, deliver accurate critical information to outage notification and restoration systems and enhance overall system reliability.

AmbientNMS can help utilities effectively manage their smart grid distribution system through Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP), providing valuable information over a single communications network. Utilities can now reduce the time needed to fix power delivery issues with the help of AmbientNMS. 

Ambient claimed that it customizes AmbientNMS to provide utilities with the tools necessary to tailor their monitoring and processing and to act upon vast amounts of information on a real-time basis.

“Alerts can be configured in our system to inform grid operators when parameters exceed pre-determined thresholds. It means the utilities can serve their customers better by acting on GPS provided locations and time-stamped data directly from the field, in real time, instead of reacting to customer calls,” said John J. Joyce, President and CEO of Ambient, in a press release.

AmbientNMS’ capabilities include customizable lists and GIS maps allowing utilities to view grid devices by region, circuit or other shared characteristics such as devices enabling common applications and it supports auto-discovery of network resources, VLANs, provisioning, multiple networks, event logging, data collection, alerts, reporting, and multiple levels of users and security.

Ambient asserted that its smart grid platform not just enables utilities to resolve utility outages quickly but also provides distributed intelligence that can support and host Ambient or third party applications – adding value and functionality to existing standalone applications.