Case Study: Canadian System Operator delivers faster smart meter analytics with KX

KX keeps Canadian system operator at the forefront of innovation

Canadian System Operator, a major energy-sector utility organization in North America, needed to manage a rapidly growing volume of smart meter data: more than 250 billion meter reads, increasing by over 100 million per day. Its existing transaction and relational database systems were not built to support the scale, speed, and analytics demands of this workload. Kx Systems was selected as the vendor to address these time-series data challenges.

Kx Systems implemented a high-performance data platform for smart meter data processing after market research, evaluations, and proof-of-concept testing showed it delivered the best performance at the lowest total cost of ownership. Using KX, the customer expanded data availability from 100 to 365-day 24/7 access, gained instant access to 27 months to 10+ years of historical data, and delivered query results 5x faster.