The UtilityAMI (Advanced Metering Infrastructure) Working Group was formed in November 2005 to address lack of utility guidance for the OpenAMI Working Group. Guidance and division of effort was needed for requirements to be driven by those entities who will buy AMI systems and their components – utilities themselves.

The purpose of UtilityAMI is to provide a forum for utility representatives to define serviceability, security and interoperability guidelines for advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) and demand responsive infrastructure (DRI) from a utility / energy service provider perspective.

The mission of UtilityAMI is to develop high-level policy statements that can be used to facilitate efficient requirements and specification development using a common language that minimizes confusion and misunderstanding between utilities and vendors. UtilityAMI will also coordinate with other industry groups as required to efficiently carry out this mission.

UtilityAMI has a goal to utilize the UtilityAMI work products to influence the vendor community to produce products and services that utilities need to support their AMI and DRI initiatives. To date, glossary and common requirements documents have been produced, with the latter being ratified by nine utilities and one utility-sponsored entity in the Northern hemisphere.