listen to your meters! pradeep murthy suntec business solutions

Listen to Your Meters!Pradeep Murthy

SunTec Business Solutions

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Are You Listening To Your Meters?

Current system

Bill

Bill payment

Persistent challenges in the current system

• Ability to avoid load shedding by encouraging demand side management

• Ability to detect meter tampering

• Ability to manage outages effectively

• Ability to plan ahead for future energy requirements

Billing


Deliver the right data to the right system in the right format at the right time?

Need of the hour

• Collect meter data records automatically in both real-time and

batch modes from different sources • Keep in a single data repository with proper edit log• Conduct proper validation, estimation and editing • Provide more accurate, timely data to all third party systems• Prepare the billing determinants for complex billing• Do Load Profiling of industrial & high value customers • Generate MIS reports based on meters, revenue protection

alerts etc.


AMR Network

Prevent Powercuts through Load Management

Interval meter data

Time of use pricing

Prompt for usage in off-peak timings

Consumption reports

Daily load profile data

Aggregated metered data

Meter dataprocessing

Pricing & Billingsystem


Managing Outages Effectively

Real time event data

Outage alert

Corrective action

Rectification confirmation

Outage analysisAMR Network


Outagemanagement

system


Preventing Power Theft

AMR Network


Outagemanagement

system

Interval Meter data

Tamper event alerts

Usage pattern/event analysis

Tampering alert

Manual corrective action

Tampering


Better Planning to Meet Future Energy Requirements

AMR Network


Usage analysis & reporting

Load forecastingEnergy auditing and accounting

Load management

Pricing plan (Season based/time based)


Processing the Meter Data

Fraud management

Energy Auditing

Load Forecasting

Rate Analysis

Outage management

Pricing& Billing

MDM Data Repository

Data Import

Data Validation

Data Estimation & Editing

Data Aggregation & Collation

Processing

MDM

Data Transformation

Manually read meters

Handheld

Smart metering

Manually Read Meter Networks

AMI/AMR Meter Networks

Scalability, Flexibility, Data Integrity and Timeliness taken for granted


Features of MDM

Smart Meter Data Collection

• Collect Meter Data from various meter types and technologies • Manage Meter History• Automatic Schedule for Meter data collection

Validation, Estimation & Editing

• Industry Standard Validation, estimation & editing logic• GUI for changing the validation & estimation rule• Provide manual editing of meter data

Security of meter data • Option to view audit trails of the validation-estimation-editing• Change tracking• Version control

Interface • Standard File Format for other Back office systems

Data Aggregation & Collation

• Prepare the billing determinants as per pricing mechanism• Prepares different formats of data for other applications

Consumer Load Profiling

• Daily Load Profiling of Consumer in both tabular & graphical visualization

Reports • Standard Reports such as high/low usage, meter tempered reports for revenue protection, Outage alerts reports etc


Key Benefits

• Provide appropriate data to multiple applications/ business

functions in suitable formats, quickly, efficiently and in a

repeatable fashion

• Streamline meter data flows within the back-end system

landscape

• Introduce AMR/AMI without necessitating changes to legacy

backend systems such as billing

• Make significant cost savings

Error-free billing

Timely outage management

Consumption analysis and accurate forecasting

• Conduct real-time load profiling by utilizing the high throughput

transaction processing core


Thank You for Listening to Me(ter)!

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