Best Smart Grid Software
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What is Smart Grid Software?
Smart grid software integrates advanced digital technologies into electrical grids, enabling utilities to monitor, control, and optimize the generation, distribution, and consumption of electricity. These platforms facilitate real-time data analysis, predictive maintenance, and seamless integration of renewable energy sources, contributing to a more resilient and efficient energy infrastructure. By leveraging Internet of Things (IoT) devices, artificial intelligence (AI), and machine learning, smart grid software enhances grid reliability, reduces operational costs, and supports the transition towards sustainable energy systems. Key functionalities include demand response management, outage detection and restoration, and advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) analytics. As the energy landscape evolves, smart grid software plays a pivotal role in modernizing electrical grids to meet the demands of a low-carbon future. Compare and read user reviews of the best Smart Grid software currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.
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IBM Maximo® Application Suite is a set of applications for asset monitoring, management, predictive maintenance and reliability planning. Get the most value from your enterprise assets with Maximo Application Suite. It’s a single, integrated cloud-based platform that uses AI, IoT and analytics to optimize performance, extend asset lifecycles and reduce operational downtime and costs. With market-leading technology from IBM Maximo, you’ll have access to configurable CMMS, EAM, APM and RCM applications, along with streamlined installation and administration, plus a better user experience with shared data and workflows. Manage and maintain high-value assets with AI and analytics to optimize performance, extend asset lifecycles and reduce downtime and costs. Streamline inspection processes with seamless, automated asset inspections driven by real-time data and artificial intelligence.
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ICONICS IoT
ICONICS
Make your HMI/SCADA platform more accessible and efficient with the power of IoT. The Internet of Things (IoT) sees the world in a smart, interconnected way. Its vision is to connect assets, or “things”, to a larger IoT software system, or network of systems that make up a smart grid. These “things” retain the capability of actuation, control, automation and autonomous operation. The unification of devices results in vast amounts of data being collected, which empowers users with more opportunities than ever. ICONICS’ SCADA with IoT collects this data and provides the operator with a new layer of actionable intelligence. ICONICS IoT connects your buildings, facilities, and equipment through secure TLS encryption and Microsoft Azure. Your data in the cloud can be accessed from anywhere through pub/sub architecture for real-time visualization of KPI data at the edge. We deliver an efficient, secure connection to the cloud through bi-directional AMQP for Microsoft Azure. -
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GE ADMS
GE Digital
Every day, management of the grid becomes more challenging. The distribution network is becoming progressively dynamic, complexity is increasing and the volume of data that utilities need to understand and integrate continues to grow. GE’s DER-aware ADMS moves beyond the traditional bounds of SCADA, DMS and OMS and provides software for the safe and secure management and orchestration of the distribution grid. Our solutions deliver reliability, productivity, and efficiency through a modular architecture, adaptive algorithms, predictive analytics, and a brilliant user experience. GE’s ADMS software supports our customers’ journey towards predictive and autonomous operations, and an optimized distribution grid. GE’s DER-aware ADMS enables electric utilities to meet customer expectations of a reliable and resilient distribution grid via next-generation control and optimization capabilities. The solution spans and connects Distribution Optimization, Outage Response and DER Orchestration. -
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enSights.ai
enSights.ai
enSights.ai is your AI‑based asset manager and centralized clean‑energy optimization platform that collects, stores, learns from, and analyzes digital assets in a single real‑time environment. It seamlessly connects directly to inverters, loggers, weather data, SCADA, DAS, revenue‑grade meters, PV, wind, storage batteries, EV charging stations, smart meters, and more, without extra hardware, and integrates across vendors via remote connectors. Utilizing digital‑twin technology, AI/ML algorithms, big‑data ingestion, data scrubbing, live monitoring, performance and financial analytics, maintenance management with ticketing, CRM, billing, financial visibility, and reporting, enSights delivers operational excellence and profitable growth. Users benefit from AI‑recommended diagnostics, root‑cause analysis, automated alerts, SLA tracking, CRM profiles, end‑user interfaces, and EV‑charging support with OCPP 1.6j. -
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GridOS
GE Vernova
GridOS is the first software portfolio designed specifically for grid orchestration, empowering utilities to navigate the energy transition by providing modern tools to orchestrate the complexity of the sustainable energy grid while driving reliability, resilience, and security even amid increasing renewables, DER penetration, severe weather, and cyber threats. It includes a robust suite of interconnected solutions that deliver real-time visibility, optimization, and control across transmission, distribution, markets, and DER ecosystems. GridOS Data Fabric unifies and contextualizes decentralized grid and IT/OT data via metadata cataloging and federation, enabling use cases like outage management, forecasting, grid automation, and violation avoidance without requiring coding expertise. -
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IQGeo
IQGeo
Improve productivity and collaboration across your organization by providing a current, accurate view of complex network assets, easily accessible by anyone, anywhere. The IQGeo Platform (formerly myWorld) is the foundation for our award-winning software solutions, transforming the ability of telecoms and utility network operators to design and manage their complex and constantly evolving network assets. It’s mobile-first architecture creates a current and accurate digital twin of your physical operations that can be securely shared with thousands of field and office staff, improving enterprise collaboration and increasing operational productivity. IQGeo's enterprise geospatial software can be rolled out on its own to support mobile field crews and contractors, providing the tools they need to streamline construction and maintenance processes and dramatically improve field data quality. -
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Onesait ADMS
minsait ACS
Onesait ADMS combines real-time monitoring and control, advanced distribution applications, and outage management, using distributed intelligence with grid edge technologies. While many utilities today have yet to realize the full benefits of a DMS implementation, Minsait ACS is solving this challenge by delivering true ROI with our Onesait Advanced Distribution Management System (ADMS). Based on our more than 40 years of experience delivering “mission critical” real-time systems, Onesait ADMS features advanced analysis applications to optimize network operations, combined with field-proven SCADA for monitoring and control and integrated Outage Management for tracking, analyzing and restoring outages, all resulting in improved network resiliency, reliability and power quality. Onesait ADMS is a DER-enabled solution with a flexible, distributed architecture design that helps utilities effectively integrate DER assets and grid-edge devices. -
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Spectrum Power ADMS
Siemens
Avoid unplanned outages and react quickly and efficiently to disturbances or potential problems. Satisfy regulatory mandates and improve customer satisfaction with real-time information and fast outage restoration. As the grid system becomes increasingly complex due to the integration of distributed energy resources and storage, these challenges are presenting opportunities to rethink the world of power distribution management. When integrated into the distribution grid, smart meters, demand response, and distributed storage and generation, in combination with increased grid automation, are inundating utility systems with data that needs to be intelligently managed and leveraged for effective distribution grid operation. At the same time, utilities are facing growing regulatory and customer pressure to maximize grid efficiency and provide reliable service at all times. Integrated DER management, monitoring, forecasting, optimization and control. -
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SurvalentONE ADMS
Survalent
The SurvalentONE ADMS platform is a fully integrated supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA), outage management system (OMS), and distribution management system (DMS) solution that runs on a single, easy-to-use graphical interface. Built from the ground up on a Windows-based platform that is scalable, secure, and open, it efficiently integrates, manages, and processes data from a broad array of sources. Because our solutions are easy to deploy, manage, scale, and use, they provide a low total cost of ownership. Survalent (survalent.com) is the most trusted provider of advanced distribution management systems (ADMS) for electric, gas, transit, renewable energy, and water/wastewater utilities across the globe. Over 700 customers in 40 countries have implemented the SurvalentONE platform to improve operational efficiencies, customer satisfaction and network reliability. -
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AutoGrid
AutoGrid
AutoGrid’s integrated suite of flexibility management applications enables utilities and energy service providers to build next-generation renewable-friendly energy networks by managing and optimizing distributed energy resources at scale and in real time while engaging customers, enhancing reliability and generating new value streams. In a world where supply and demand are unpredictable and potentially out of your control, the key to balance is harnessing data to flex with the ebb and flow of energy. With three applications built expressly for the top flexibility use cases, AutoGrid Flex™ mines the Energy Internet’s rich data lode to extract the highest value from all distributed energy resources. The seamless front end customer experience for the most powerful energy data platform. AutoGrid Engage™ offers a fully customizable look and feel with seamless integration into other corporate web platforms, and gives you the ability to fully integrate DERs. -
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EcoStruxure ADMS
Schneider Electric
Electric utilities are facing a multitude of challenges: growing regulatory and customer pressure for increased reliability and reduced carbon emissions, adoption of distributed renewable generation and energy storage, increase in severe weather patterns and network outages, and the inevitability of both an aging workforce and infrastructure. EcoStruxure™ ADMS is an industry benchmark used by 75 utility companies that serve 70 million end-customers around the world. A leading industry analyst has consistently recognized the solution for several years - for unmatched outage response, optimized grid operations, and distributed energy resource (DER) management among others. Our new report examines how the latest trends and innovative solutions impact electric distribution utilities. Explore strategies to tackle challenges head-on and succeed. Our comprehensive network management solution provides more reliable, safe, and efficient energy management. -
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GE’s Network Outage Management is a Trouble Call and Outage Management System that forms an integral part of the e-terradistribution suite of applications. It allows operators to manage unscheduled and planned network outages from within a unified operating environment that integrates Switching Operations, SCADA, Automated Metering Data, Crew Monitoring and Real-Time Network Analysis. From the initial notification of a fault through prediction, crew assignment and restoration switching to return-to-normal, the dispatcher is able to work from a single set of network views. All the necessary information for each phase of the job is clearly presented in a way that allows the dispatcher to manage each outage efficiently while also staying aware of other network activity. Grid Solutions, a GE Renewable Energy business, serves customers globally with over 13,000 employees. Grid Solutions provides power utilities and industries worldwide with equipment, systems and services.
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GridEye
depsys
GridEye is our flagship digital grid management platform. GridEye offers in-depth visibility and insight into grid state and behaviour for reduced downtime, increased grid control, automation, health and performance, and optimized investments. Already used by more than 40 grid operators worldwide, the GridEye platform and applications are the foundation of true, data-driven grid visibility and understanding, operators’ vital tools for accelerating the energy transition. What is GridEye? It’s our core platform combining hardware and software components to produce and leverage high-precision, real-time data. GridEye helps to operate, monitor, analyze, automate and optimize any power distribution grid. GridEye goes all the way to the grid edge to generate real data in real-time and give utilities control over external systems. The system manages the devices, network, data, IoT communication, security and visualization. -
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Emerson Ovation
Emerson
Emerson’s Ovation™ platform delivers a unified automation approach for modern power and water operations. Built on a robust DCS core and deployed across thousands of sites worldwide, Ovation supports over 1.4 million MW of generation capacity with deep expertise in turbine, boiler, HRSG, and renewable control. Its integrated suite includes SIS, SCADA, simulation with digital twin modeling, optimization tools, plant prognostics, cybersecurity, and AI-driven applications. Emerson also leads in water/wastewater automation, with successful DCS and SCADA implementations at more than 150 U.S. facilities managing 12 billion gallons daily. -
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Uplight
Uplight
Energy providers are tasked with creating efficient, affordable, and sustainable energy for everyone in their communities. It’s a big job that Uplight is excited to help with. Uplight connects energy providers to their decarbonization goals. A unified platform to engage, activate, and orchestrate your customers and their energy usage. Partnering with more than 80 of the world’s leading electric and gas utilities, our energy expertise, innovation, and scale are unmatched. Uplight challenges our energy providers to develop more innovative solutions to achieve their goals. We have a collaborative process to ensure success because more affordable and cleaner energy is our goal too. It’s not easy, but together we can do it. Uplight is proud to be a certified B corporation, the highest standard for businesses building a more inclusive and sustainable economy. We have an ambitious environmental goal of reducing CO2 emissions by more than 100 million metric tons. -
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Landis+Gyr AIM
Landis+Gyr
Landis+Gyr AIM is a proven smart metering software solution designed to simplify energy data collection and management for utilities. Its Gridstream Connect system combines smart meters, communication technologies, advanced software, and comprehensive services in one platform. AIM supports multi-energy metering and offers a flexible, modular architecture built for the evolving energy market. The software enables utilities to efficiently process, validate, and store metering data, while automating many operational tasks. It provides interoperability with various manufacturers’ hardware and software through open, standardized interfaces. Currently, Landis+Gyr AIM operates over 2 million metering points across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. -
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Eaton CYME
Eaton
Eaton's CYME distribution system software applications provide advanced network modeling and simulation capabilities for all aspects of distribution systems, from planning to optimization of operation, protection, and DER interconnection. The software accurately models medium- and low-voltage distribution feeders and equipment, including distributed energy resources and substations. It allows for the analysis, scheduling, and visualization of tasks for system growth and asset maintenance. Users can develop use cases for distribution capacity planning studies, network optimization, and contingency and reliability scenario assessments. The software's functionalities can be expanded through automation and customized scripts. Precision design and modeling features enable the creation of global views by modeling connected HV/MV substations and sub-transmission networks, which can be displayed on geo-referenced maps for visuals closer to reality. -
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Acelerex
Acelerex
Acelerex Grid Enterprise Solutions facilitates the design of grid infrastructure and real‑time grid operations through modular offerings. The grid automation suite encompasses EMS, SCADA, DAS, PPC, and MDE functionalities to control and optimize power flow and distribution. Grid analytics supports capacity expansion, production‑cost modeling, asset revenue modeling, and valuations to guide investment decisions. Data services deliver scalable big‑data frameworks and algorithmic insights for operational efficiency. Grid strategy aids integrated resource planning, clean‑energy policy compliance, technology procurement, and power‑purchase agreement (PPA) structuring. Appliances leverage top‑of‑the‑line hardware to ensure high availability, resiliency, and client‑grade performance. We pair emerging technologies in these key sectors with software innovations such as AI, IoT devices, blockchain, big data, data mining, cloud computing, and real time optimization algorithms. -
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EcoStruxure Microgrid Advisor
Schneider Electric
EcoStruxure Microgrid Advisor is a cloud‑based, demand‑side energy management software platform that allows users to collect, forecast, and automatically optimize the operation of distributed energy resources using predictive algorithms. It seamlessly connects to your on‑site resources and loads to dynamically control when to consume, produce, store, or sell energy, aligned with utility tariff plans and usage patterns. With its web‑based user interface, you can easily track real‑time savings, earnings, and CO₂ emissions data, enabling clear visibility and actionable insights. It integrates with the Energy Control Center to create an intelligent, pre‑engineered, configurable power control hub, maximizing facility performance. EcoStruxure Microgrid Advisor’s AI‑driven forecasting and optimization ensure your facility uses distributed energy resources at the ideal times. -
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NextEra 360
NextEra 360
In today’s complex energy ecosystem, companies are finding it challenging to make real progress toward their decarbonization goals. Generating a comprehensive view of energy and emissions data is costly, and it can be even more challenging to turn data into actionable opportunities. NextEra 360 comprehensive energy management software was developed to address these very challenges. Our data-first approach leverages a 360° view of energy generation and consumption data captured and analyzed across a wide range of assets and sites to improve operational efficiency, reduce costs, and unlock savings. NextEra 360 enables easy and secure system integration with tested hardware and software solutions to accelerate your decarbonization journey by enabling sophisticated energy strategies, prioritizing interventions, and unlocking market trading opportunities. -
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Globema Smart Grid
Globema
Globema’s Smart Grid Software is a robust solution designed for technical calculations, management of power distribution networks, and real‑time monitoring and control of voltage levels and energy usage. It includes tools like GeoGrid GIS and digital twins for accurate grid modelling and analysis, enhanced by AI/ML for automated network updates and efficient low‑voltage topology management. It supports key distribution grid processes, network documentation, outage management, service provisioning, investment planning, maintenance, and control support, built atop GE Smallworld GIS for LV, MV, and HV networks. Integration-ready APIs enable seamless connection with SCADA, ERP, and asset management systems. Globema also offers mobile workforce management via GeoTask and GeoTraxx, map-based apps, AI/ML-driven analytics, and intelligent energy network visualization tailored to energy operators. -
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Mobile HeatGrid
Globema
Globema’s Mobile HeatGrid is a smart, mobile-first solution that digitizes and optimizes heating network operations by automating task creation for field technicians, streamlining planning, and tracking progress in real time. It integrates a dispatcher’s interface, a mobile technician app, and a GIS system, creating a unified environment for efficient fieldwork management. It automatically generates tasks, collects data on-site, and provides status updates as jobs advance, transforming traditional processes into a seamless digital workflow. Designed for district heating companies, Mobile HeatGrid incorporates GIS mapping, enabling dispatchers to assign and monitor jobs based on precise geospatial locations, while technicians receive clear, step-by-step instructions on their devices. It supports full digitization of heating network assessments, field inspections, and maintenance activities, reducing manual entry and enabling real-time coordination. -
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ReliaGrid
ABB
ABB’s Grid Automation Solutions provide pre-designed, fully engineered, and factory-tested automation cabinets ready for installation in secondary substations, indoor or outdoor. These cabinets include protection and control devices such as Relion REC615, RIO600 I/O units, Arctic wireless gateways (ARx600), third-party RTUs, batteries, chargers, and I/O terminals, all pre-wired internally to simplify integration. These "GA boxes" integrate seamlessly into ABB's secondary compact substations, enabling fast deployment of digital substations that support efficient, reliable smart grid operation. ABB offers solutions for both greenfield installations and brownfield retrofits, addressing needs from basic monitoring to advanced measurement, protection, control, and automation functions. With secure wireless communication capabilities, substations can be connected to control centers or DMS systems via public mobile networks. -
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ABM Connect
ABM
ABM Connect is a powerful, end‑to‑end data intelligence platform that brings real‑time, actionable metrics, robust reporting, and up‑to‑date KPIs, all at a glance. It connects clients to ABM’s workforce, operational leaders, and business intelligence via seamless, transparent data flows from field applications into a user‑friendly client interface. Clients benefit from continuous tracking of operational history and daily activities—including traditional KPIs (safety, financials), real‑time servicing updates, daily scope reports, invoice PDFs, and work order history, augmented by actionable analytics for continuous improvement. It empowers front‑line team members to clock in, follow scoped task routines, complete required training, note building deficiencies, receive and address ad‑hoc tasks, and communicate with supervisors. -
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UtilityIQ
Itron
UtilityIQ (UIQ) is a head‑end software suite that includes applications designed to help utility operators collect and manage AMI meter consumption data. Applications such as Advanced Metering Manager (AMM) and Meter Program Configurator (MPC) are secure and scalable solutions to support meter reading, management, and analysis for power quality, meter status, peak pricing, and more. -
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Fluentgrid MDMS
Fluentgrid
Fluentgrid MDMS enables utilities to extract full value out of meter data across the organization by efficiently processing data from meters and a variety of other devices in the smart‑grid ecosystem. It loads, validates, structures , and stores that data in ways that can be easily accessible for internal and external downstream systems across the utility. It supports standard functionality for Validation, Estimation, and Editing (VEE), aggregations, event subscriptions, bill determinants, and AMI rollout processes. A true commercial off‑the‑shelf (COTS) product, Fluentgrid MDMS can be quickly set up to work with leading meter head‑ends in target markets. It processes data in real time, identifying anomalies, detecting inefficiencies, forecasting future demand, and providing automated alerts and notifications to support proactive issue resolution. -
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Siemens Grid Software
Siemens
Siemens Grid Software is designed to accelerate the energy transition of power grids by delivering mission‑critical capabilities that help grid operators decode and shape a future‑proof power landscape. It is part of the Siemens Xcelerator for Grids portfolio and supports digital transformation across power utilities. It encompasses solutions like Spectrum Power, a globally leading grid management system that alleviates the complexity of modern grid operations by offering resilience, reliability, modularity, scalability, openness, interoperability, and cybersecurity. For high‑voltage transmission, the software provides tools and insights to future‑proof supply security and market efficiency. It addresses key disruptive forces, decentralization, decarbonization, and digitalization, giving operators the perspective and guidance needed to manage evolving grid demands confidently and securely. -
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AspenTech Grid Apps
AspenTech
AspenTech Grid Apps is an integrated solution suite for active management of distribution grids, crowd‑sourcing data for improved visibility of network conditions, DER (Distributed Energy Resource) connections, and outage response. It includes multiple applications: AspenTech Grid Reporter reports and displays real‑time status of network outages, faults, and damage while delivering notifications for time‑to‑restoration, crew locations, and emergency contacts; AspenTech DER Connect enables self‑service DER registration and streamlined connection requests, with automated electrical network and cost analysis via a centralized DER database; AspenTech Network Maps provides geographical views of network load demand and generation capacity; and AspenTech Resilience Portal offers real‑time information on resources, assistance, and assets during large‑scale outages. -
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CGI OpenGrid DERMS is a distributed energy resource management solution designed to help utilities intelligently and safely integrate, orchestrate, monitor, dispatch, optimize, and settle operations involving diverse DERs across the distribution grid. Built on an API‑based, cloud‑native OpenGrid Foundation platform, it enables registration, validation, and connection of independently owned DERs alongside utility‑owned assets, providing complete visibility and control over power, Volt‑Var, and voltage at the transformer and feeder level. It supports both static and dynamic aggregation of disparate DERs, allowing utilities to develop, optimize, and dispatch coordinated schedules based on operator priorities, fault proximity, connection agreements, or financial goals. Dispatching can be manual, scheduled, event‑triggered, or imported from external systems.
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Oracle Utilities
Oracle
Thrive in a sustainable, affordable energy and water future. Deliver outstanding customer experiences, improve energy efficiency, and manage networks and assets so you can deliver essential services to your communities every day. Connect customer care, billing, metering, and device management to grow revenue and resolve issues faster. Capture, manage, and analyze advanced meter and device data to accelerate billing cycles and drive operational efficiency. Acquire and engage customers with personalized selling and marketing communications that inspire. Harness AI and behavioral science to drive change and shift peak demand—one customer at a time. Predict and prevent problems throughout the lifecycle of your physical assets. Bring efficiency to work management, maintenance, and operations.
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