Trust Your AMI Data with a Joint Solution from GE Vernova and Itron

Utilities have spent billions of dollars deploying smart meters across their networks. The resulting data influx speaks for itself — utilities who invested in those smart meters now sit on a goldmine of advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) data. The data flows in continuously across millions of endpoints and holds thousands of critical insights about how to improve service quality, reliability, resilience, efficiency, and more.

Yet many utilities never unlock and capitalize on those insights. That is not a technology failure. It is a trust problem. Raw AMI data can be overwhelming, and operators trained on SCADA and crew reports will not stake grid decisions on inputs they cannot verify. Recognizing this gap, GE Vernova and Itron set out to close it with a joint solution, combining the best of each’s capabilities.

Naturally, the first step in closing such a gap is maximizing data visibility and control where either is lacking. Thus, Itron contributed its advanced edge technologies to the joint solution. This includes Itron's Grid Edge Intelligence (GEI) data capture capabilities as well as analytical capabilities served by its data hub Itron Enterprise Operating Systems (IEOS) to help utilities better access, understand, and manage their AMI, Distributed Intelligence (DI) and behind-the-meter data. For its part, GE Vernova contributed its data-integration layer, GridOS® Connect. This innovative solution bridges IT and OT data silos to bring together a huge array of disparate data to power essential use cases. In the context of the joint solution, GridOS Connect receives, translates, and routes the validated Itron-sourced data from IEOS into ADMS workflows using standard APIs. The solution enables a scalable, repeatable integration pattern that utilities can deploy and scale across their operations. At the same time, GridOS® Data Fabric provides the semantic foundation that governs this data, ensuring it remains trustworthy, contextualized, and ready for grid-wide orchestration.

Put simply, Itron sources, analyzes, and validates a utility’s critical edge data, while GridOS Connect forms a bridge that feeds the said data and analytical insights directly into the grid applications and systems that need it. This streamlined workflow greatly expedites the process of turning raw data into precise, data-honed insights, ensuring that end users receive the exact information they need to take meaningful actions. Overall, the joint solution and its workflow are intended to enable faster, smarter, and vastly more effective decision making across utility silos and teams.

Two specific integration examples showcase the joint solution’s outcomes especially well: smarter outage detection and improved voltage optimization.

Raw AMI power-on and power-off events are notorious for producing false positives and negatives — so many, in fact, that some utilities have disabled the feature entirely. This is hardly surprising, considering that false alarms can easily overwhelm an outage management system. Operators waste time clearing phantom outages, crews end up confirming root cause manually, and low AMI ping response rates leave nested outages undetected during restoration.

The joint GE Vernova-Itron solution will change the input. First, Itron's latest outage analytics solution, outage awareness, filters and validates events at the edge and includes the predicted fault location, fault classification, and a confidence score. It then passes the insights over to GridOS Connect, which funnels them directly into GE Vernova's GridOS® ADMS. The ADMS user sees the root-cause device, type, and probability on GridOS ADMS network map, providing a validated view of events and recommended action steps alongside SCADA readouts and customer calls.

The joint solution accommodates a variety of device types, including service points, fuses, transformers, reclosers, and circuit breakers. Each represents a different point in the network where a fault can originate, and each carries different implications for crew dispatch. Restoring events with outage awareness adds an independent confirmation signal, so lingering nested outages become visible even when ping response rates run low. The result? Fewer false dispatches, reduced patrol time, and faster, more confident restoration.

Conservation Voltage Reduction (CVR) is one of the most effective efficiency levers a distribution utility has. Operating voltage closer to the lower end of the acceptable range cuts energy consumed by resistive loads across the feeder, resulting in significant savings.

But proper CVR execution can be challenging. Legacy "Bellwether" approaches sample only a small subset of AMI meters per feeder. The scan runs on demand rather than continuously, which introduces polling delays. In addition, limited SCADA coverage leaves little visibility into customer-level voltages. Faced with such uncertainty, operators tend to adjust voltage setpoints higher than necessary and diminish any potential CVR savings.

This joint solution removes the guesswork. Itron's DI Grid Awareness solution provides real-time transformer voltage data, including minimum, maximum, and average values, and streams continuously into GridOS ADMS via GridOS Connect and independently of GridOS ADMS’ internal scan cycle. It leverages the entire AMI-enabled transformer population, not just a sample, eliminating any need to account for phase diversity or meter location. Poor-quality readings drop out before any correction is applied, meaning the data insights arrive in GridOS ADMS clean, crisp, and fully validated, thanks to Itron’s technology and the GridOS Connect-enabled integration. Cleaner data results in better control, more aggressive CVR execution, and more energy saved per feeder.

Both use cases run on one integration layer: GridOS Connect.


Important Note: These integrations are established pre-sales playbooks and joint GE Vernova - Itron integration patterns which prove the data pathways work and deliver the operational value. Interested utilities should engage with GE Vernova and Itron directly to confirm scope and support on the path to production.

GE Vernova is a proud sponsor of Itron Inspire. Visit the GE Vernova lounge for live demonstrations of both integrations mentioned in this blog: outage management and VVO/LVM. Seeing the data flow end-to-end is the easiest and most enlightening way to understand the improvements and benefits outcomes the joint solution creates in the control room.

Can’t attend in person? Reach out to arrange a detailed overview built around your network and priorities. The AMI data already exists. The opportunity now is to make it trustworthy enough to act on.