An outage management system (OMS) is a tool that helps in outage management by handling emergency calls, detecting power failure, estimating restoration time, performing crew management, and providing status reports to customers. OMS integrates with other systems such as supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) system, advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) system, geographic information system (GIS), customer information system (CIS), distribution management system (DMS) and meter data management (MDM) for effective outage management. OMS uses the information from other systems to analyze outage events, calculate restoration times, manage the crews, and provide reliable outage reports.
The global market for outage management systems (OMS) is expected to grow at a moderate rate of 3.8% during the period 2011-2020. The sluggish growth of the OMS market can be attributed to the decreasing demand for stand-alone OMS as the evidence of the superiority of OMS integrated with other enterprise systems becomes more prominent. The market is expected to witness more of such situations, where an entire package is offered to the utility instead of a single OMS. The packaged product will consist of an OMS along with a Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition (SCADA) and Geographic Interface System (GIS).
The Deployment Focus of Outage Management Systems to Shift from the North American Region to Asia
The global OMS market is expected to witness slow growth during the next few years until 2016. The slow growth rate can be attributed to varying installation trends among different countries. The deployment of OMS during the period 2005-2010 was restricted to the US and some parts of Europe. The markets in these regions are nearing saturation and the scope for growth lies in the replacement of the existing systems. The OMS market in Asia Pacific and Eastern Europe is still in the nascent stage and is expected to drive the global market for OMS for the period 2011-2016. Countries such as India, the Philippines and China are expected to place orders for a significant number of OMS systems as they strive to reduce their network inefficiencies including power outages.
Ensuring Reliability of Power Delivery will Drive the Market for Outage Management Systems
A set of regulatory standards incorporated by governments to ensure reliable power supply to customers will act as the common driver promoting the OMS markets across different countries. The regulations fix specific values for annual customer minutes lost (CML) that the utilities need to achieve. The ability of OMS to help the utilities achieve this will act as a major driver for the sale of these systems. This is especially applicable in countries such as the US and the UK where consumers are extremely proactive and demanding. Customer attitudes towards power outage are acting as a major driver for the OMS market in these countries, but the same factor is restricting the scope for growth in markets such as India, where consumers are less reactive towards outages.
Outage Management System to Undergo Changes in Coming Years
OMSs have developed along with changes in information technology. Traditionally, OMS were paper based systems where the outage management process was performed manually. Eventually, computer-based systems gradually developed which used schematic diagrams and geographic interface systems to detect the location of the outage and take the necessary action for restoration. At present, the trend is towards the convergence of OMS with various enterprise systems such as distribution management systems (DMS). OMS interfaces with enterprise systems such as advance metering infrastructure (AMI), meter data management (MDM) systems, SCADA, customer information systems (CIS), and energy management systems (EMS) to provide enhanced service through the data obtained from these enterprise systems. The present trend indicates a transition from in-house installation of OMS by utilities to systems taken from vendors.
No Clear Global Dominance of Players in Outage Management System Market
The global market for OMS is marked by the presence of major vendors such as GE, TELVENT, Oracle, Intergraph, Trimble, ABB and Milsoft. There is no clear majority interms of market share of these players at the global level. The global market is not dominated by a single player as the market share is evenly distributed among these player based on number of installations done. The US and Ireland OMS market is dominated by Oracle while GE is a major player in UK. Intergraph has marked its presence in Australia and the OMS market in India has GE as its major player.
About this research:
The latest OMS report published on ASDReports.com, "Outage Management Systems in Smart Grid - Markets Analysis, Vendor Landscape and Forecasts to 2016", which provides an insight into the global market for outage management systems. The report provides information related to the past deployment trends and outlook for outage management systems in key geographies.