Int3s Teams with Red Hat to Power Toronto Hydro's Innovative Smart Meter Program Built on JBoss Enterprise Middleware

Toronto Hydro is a municipal electric distribution utility in Canada and operates two affiliates.

"We've succeeded because of the combination of the leadership of Toronto Hydro, the innovation of Red Hat products, and the expertise of Int3s in integrating systems. Together they allowed us to leverage the power of JBoss and really make the technology work for us," said Eduardo Bresani, Vice President of IT and Chief Information Officer, Toronto Hydro.

The new SOA implementation began as part of Toronto Hydro's "Smart Meter" initiative, which aims to utilize the SOA platform to introduce variable pricing based on the time of day that electricity is consumed and to price it accordingly to encourage customers to conserve during periods of high demand.

Toronto Hydro and Int3s selected JBoss Enterprise Middleware for the Smart Meter program due to the size and stability of the technology and the toolsets that JBoss provided, including JBoss Hibernate, Rules, and jBPM Frameworks.

"We didn't want to be dependent on proprietary products for our SOA framework. JBoss Enterprise Middleware provides a solution that works with other products as long as they meet open standards," said Bresani. "Red Hat doesn't charge for the product itself, but for the support - and we valued the enterprise level support that JBoss provides. With open source, we could avoid proprietary technology lock-in, and standardize everything related to business logic, business processes, and data models."

"JBoss technology comes with everything we need to build a solid SOA for facilitating easy integration of disparate systems and data. It was the perfect solution to meet our current needs - and we trust Red Hat to meet our future ones," said Nicholas Yee, Chief Technology Officer at Int3s.

Since the initial Smart Meter implementation, Int3s has expanded the use of the JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform at Toronto Hydro in multiple projects including the development of an ETL (Extract, Transform and Load) framework for a new Enterprise Data Warehouse and integration to various applications. The SOA Platform has also simplified large system implementations such as Oracle's Customer Information System and SAP for the purpose of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) compliance.

"The support provided by Red Hat has been superb. As an Advanced Business Partner, we've had terrific access to some of the best development professionals at JBoss," said Yee. "Not only were they very responsive when we called, but they asked for our input regarding functionality that we would be looking for in future releases of the platform."

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