1. Pradeep Murthy SunTec Business Solutions
Listen to Your Meters!
Pradeep Murthy
SunTec Business Solutions

2. Are You Listening To Your Meters?
Current system
Bill
Billing
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
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Need of the hour
Deliver the right data to the right system in the right format at the right time?
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.
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4. Prevent Powercuts through Load Management
Consumption reports
AMR Network
Interval meter data
Meter data
processing
Aggregated metered data
Pricing & Billing
system
Prompt for usage in off-peak timings
Time of use pricing
Daily load profile data
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5. Managing Outages Effectively
Outage analysis
AMR Network
Meter data
processing
Real time event data
Rectification confirmation
Outage alert
Outage
management
system
Corrective action
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6. Preventing Power Theft
Usage pattern/event analysis
AMR Network
Meter data
processing
Interval Meter data
Tampering
Tamper event alerts
Tampering alert
Outage
management
system
Manual corrective action
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7. Better Planning to Meet Future Energy Requirements
AMR Network
Meter data
processing
Usage analysis
& reporting
Load forecasting
Energy auditing
and accounting
Load management
Pricing plan (Season based/time based)
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8. Processing the Meter Data
Scalability, Flexibility, Data Integrity and Timeliness taken for granted
MDM
Rate Analysis
AMI/AMR Meter Networks
Processing
Load Forecasting
Smart metering
Data Import
Data Estimation
& Editing
Energy Auditing
Data Validation
Data Aggregation &
Collation
Manually Read Meter Networks
Fraud management
Data Transformation
Handheld
Outage management
Manually read meters
Pricing& Billing
MDM Data Repository
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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
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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
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11. Thank You for Listening to Me(ter)!
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