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Distribution automation data integration governs how AMI, SCADA, DER, and FLISR telemetry are synchronized into a control grade feeder model, preventing misoperation, load misallocation, and protection errors under high DER penetration. Distribution automation failures rarely originate in hardware. They emerge when feeder state estimation drifts from physical reality. That drift begins in the integration layer, where topology, voltage magnitude, DER injection, and outage signals must be reconciled into one operational frame of reference. In high speed automation environments, switching devices execute in sub second intervals while telemetry ingestion, normalization, and validation occur across heterogeneous systems with uneven latency and accuracy…