SRSM&B Meeting Notes

Local Communications Development

For SRSM and Beyond Project
Meeting Venues
02/10/08 10:00 – 16:00 60 Cannon Street
London
Meeting called by ERA SRSM and Beyond Project
Type of meeting Project Workshop
Chair Jason Brogden, Simon Harrison
Notes Taken By Alastair Manson

Attendees
Name Company
Simon Harrison ERA
Jason Brodgen ERA
Alastair Manson ERA
Alistair Morfey Cambridge Consultants
Mark Knight SSE
Eric Beattie National Grid
Ian Graham Landis and Gyr
Geoff Mathews IMserv
Ben Pirt ONZO
David Egan Ember
John Cowburn PRI
Les Woolner Horstman
Fabio Toledo EDF Energy
Nick Slocombe EDF Energy
Tim Newton E.ON.UK
Simon Higgins ARQIVA
Jack Worsnop Siemens
David Osman RWE npower
Beverly Adams Elster
Nick Hunn Laird Technologies and Bluetooth SIG
Berny Goodheart Secure Electrans Ltd
Tony Field Actaris
Zelio Zubrinic REM
John Stanton Utilihub
Brian M Back LPRA / Radio Tech
Jane Chang British Gas
Bent Sorensen Zensys
Niels Johansen Zensys
Hans Kristiansen Orsis
Stuart Archer Renesas
Peter Westwood Trilliant
Michael Mogjeski Wavenis / Coronis Systems

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Michael Peter Stuart Hans Niels Bent Zeljko Tony Berny Nick
Modjeska Westwood Archer Kristainsen Johansen Sorensen Zubrinic Field Goodheart Hunn

Beverly
Jane Brian John Adams
Chang Back Stanton
David
Osman

Jack
Worsnop

Simon
Simon Higgins
Harrison
Jason Tim
Brogden Newton

Alastair Alistair Mark Eric Ian Geoff Ben Dave Les Fabio Nick
Manson Morfey Knight Beattie Graham Matthews Pirt Egan Woolner Toledo Slocombe

Attendee Seating Plan for Local Communications

Development Group meeting 2nd October 2008 London

Agenda
• Introductions
• Notes of previous meeting
• Update from ERA Supplier Meeting
• Process for Evaluation Session
• Evaluation Session
Lunch
• Evaluation Session continued
• Comments received against v0.3 of Report
• AOB & Final Meeting

Jason Brogden (JB) introduced the meeting

Introductions

Notes from previous meeting accepted

Updates from ERA supplier meeting

JB noted that the ERA suppliers had had a checkpoint meeting considering local comms
-results of that meeting summarised as follows
• Reminder that this is ERA project work and output – it is for delivery to the SRSM
Steering Group
• Reviewed Progress to date
• Happy with the technical requirements and criteria
• General status of the report
• Happy with level of information provided to date
• thank you to all for this
• This will remain a technical feasibility study
• user requirements considered…

Regarding User requirements: the group agreed that this is difficult to progress for a
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number of reasons – and that this will need to be done will be recognised in the report.

The checkpoint review noted that it is apparent that the report is more appropriate as a
gap analysis rather than an evaluation that eliminates any options.

The check point review concluded that

• The group is happy with the technical requirements and criteria
• It is accepted that this exercise will not be selecting a solution and that solutions
will have to be evaluated/trialled at a later date when they may have developed
further
• We will concentrate on a gap analysis and risk assessment to requirements in
this session
• We will look to assess the options and how they meet requirements as they stand
at the moment in terms of
• Green meeting the requirement, Amber some shortfalls, Red serious
shortfalls and Blue insufficient information to assess.
• Additional comments to describe shortfalls or achievement of criteria
• This should help the providers in identifying any shortfalls that need to be made
up

And plan from here:

• Today’s session
• Update document
• Review with Supplier group
• Publish to wider stakeholder group
• 29th October final review meeting
• Update and publish to SRSM Steering Group
• Agree any appropriate next steps under project governance

The Report and Scoring

SH noted that thanks for the submissions on evaluation criteria that had been received.

These submissions were used as a starting point for the assessment session.

It was agreed that during the assessment session it would be important to capture
parameters of field (or laboratory trials)

The remainder of the session reviewed the candidate solutions against the criteria and
are captured in an updated version of the report.

Actions
Project to create update draft report for review by ERA suppliers
issue updated version of the report

Next Meetings
29th October 10:30am-4pm Holiday Inn Regents Park

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