RusHydro's intelligent metering system, built on the technological software "Piramida 2.0", combines 1.2 million smart electricity meters in 12 energy sales and grid organizations across Russia. The project covers consumers in several regions where the energy holding operates, including the Far East, Krasnoyarsk Krai, and Ryazan Oblast. Meters automatically transmit readings, forming a single digital network. Consumers gain access to consumption data through a personal account, while energy companies use the system to improve payment discipline, reduce electricity losses, and more accurately control the energy balance.
Basis's participation in the project strengthened the infrastructure foundation of the cloud environment, which hosts one of the country's largest smart energy metering systems. The Russian stack for virtualization and virtual environment protection helps ensure the solution's scalability, manageability, and technological independence.
The entire IT infrastructure of the project operates in MegaFon's GCloud, where the operator ensures fault tolerance through three geographically distributed Tier III data centers. This architecture allows for technical work without system downtime and reduces the risk of data transmission interruptions during reporting periods.
MegaFon GCloud is built on Basis solutions - Basis Dynamix Enterprise and Basis Virtual Security. The Basis Dynamix Enterprise virtualization platform is used to manage virtual servers, containers, and network services. It helps automate infrastructure deployment, maintain fault tolerance at the data center level, and ensure stable service operation during load growth. Basis Virtual Security provides virtual infrastructure protection, including environment isolation, access control, and event auditing. These capabilities are especially important for projects that process large volumes of data and require access differentiation between participants, systems, and roles. Security event information is transmitted to RusHydro's corporate center, which increases the transparency of infrastructure control and management.
The technical basis of the intelligent system is the Russian software "Piramida 2.0", developed by ASTEK company (part of Systems and Technologies Group). This is a comprehensive solution for organizing automated accounting of all types of energy resources and managing the life cycle of metering devices.
By 2030, the number of devices connected to the system is planned to increase by 75%. This will expand the capabilities of intelligent metering and make the project one of the largest Russian solutions in the field of digitalization of energy sales infrastructure.
"For such large-scale projects involving the country's largest companies, not only the functionality of the application system is important, but also the reliability of the infrastructure layer on which it operates. Intelligent electricity metering means high load, a large number of connected devices, strict requirements for data availability and protection. Basis solutions allow creating a stable virtual environment for such services that scales with project growth and helps customers develop critical digital services on a domestic technology stack," noted Andrey Toloknov, Business Development Director at Basis.
"The system was created as part of the company's Digital Transformation Strategy and was initially designed with scalability in mind. Today, it includes 1.2 million metering devices, and by 2030, their number will exceed 2 million. The load on the infrastructure is growing, so the issue of fault tolerance is fundamental. The cloud architecture with redundancy in three data centers allows processing a growing volume of data, minimizing the risks of service interruptions. We are forming an ecosystem where consumers manage energy consumption remotely, and sales and grid companies get a transparent picture of the energy balance in real time. This directly impacts the efficiency of comprehensive services in energy supply and energy efficiency in the regions of presence," commented Alexander Charikov, Deputy General Director of PAO RusHydro.
"In this project, MegaFon is responsible not only for hosting the system in the cloud but also for its industrial operation as a continuous service. For intelligent electricity metering, the regularity of readings transmission, the availability of personal accounts, and stable operation during reporting periods when the system load increases are critical. Therefore, we built a cloud environment with redundancy in three geographically distributed data centers, took over infrastructure support, and provided an architecture where system maintenance and development do not interfere with the daily work of energy sales companies and consumers," noted Andrey Kuznetsov, Director of Corporate Business Products at MegaFon.
"Modern intelligent metering systems process impressive volumes of data
on consumption, power quality indicators, events, and unauthorized interventions. For stable polling within the regulated time, coordinated operation of cellular networks and the data center's hardware and software platform is necessary. The geographical coverage of the unified system and the capabilities of control actions on metering devices dictate strict requirements for information security and technological sovereignty of critical infrastructure. Therefore, products and competencies of technological leaders united to implement the energy data platform," commented Ilya Krasnov, Project Manager at Systems and Technologies Group.