Meter Data Collection
Montly & Periodic Meter Reading
The Monthly & Periodic Meter Reading Module in MECOMS® facilitates easier handling of the entire meter reading process for a meter reading responsible. It is deeply integrated with other MECOMS® modules so that it is possible to log and edit any necessary meter reading request from a variety of screens in the application.
The MPMRM module will survey all logged requests and bundle them. A wide set of different meter reading scenarios is supported by classifying the requests into groups that are easily managed. The meter reading scenarios support any form of meter reading entry.
Utility companies are often confronted with lacking meter readings. These block processes further down the meter-to-cash cycle such as billing. Managing such discrepancies in the process can be very costly. That’s why MECOMS® offers a range of tools to automate the interception of such discrepancies before you have to enter the manual modus of solving such problems.
Automatic Meter Reading
MECOMS® Automatic Meter Reading Management (AMRM) manages the collection of interval, register and event information for a wide range of automated electricity and gas meters (mainly unidirectional). It consists of a robust hardware platform with telemetry-specific software that handles data collection through modem, GSM, TCP/IP (GPRS, Ethernet), power line or Remote Call access.
Depending on the size of your AMR network and expandability needed, MECOMS® AMRM is available on two different platforms: compact and modular. The compact version facilitates more limited data collection environments, while the modular version is capable of wide-scale, distributed automatic metering. Both platforms excel in remote data collection thanks to the task-based, parallel collection approach. Several export interfaces using various formats (DDP, ZRXP) and transmission forms (WSP, local- and NFS directory, FTP) ensure proper information exchange with your MECOMS® Energy Data Management or Customer Care & Billing solution.
Smart Meter Reading
By far the most important question is how you will valorize a smart meter deployment in your organization. This question hides a lot of other challenges for most of utility companies. With MECOMS® however, you deploy a future proof solution to meet new challenges that arise in the area of Energy Data Management or Customer Care & Billing.
A special module called Smart Metering Communication Bus has been designed within MECOMS® to meet another major Smart Metering challenge for utilities: the search for the most efficient management of your Smart Metering assets and the complex communication with them. These assets will have a multi brand, multi protocol and multi user panorama. Although the processing of communication has to be done in co-ordination with other processes, the best is to keep them untangled. Accordingly e.g. the adding of a new protocol should not directly influence the billing cycle of a customer.
MECOMS®’ Smart Metering Communication Bus tackles both issues, thanks to its generic being as well as its specificity. As a part of MECOMS® it guarantees an uncomplicated and univocal (asset) management. But at the same time it offers the flexibility to e.g. link several different (proprietary) protocols to each other and the central system.
On top of that MECOMS®' Smart Metering Communication Bus supports "push" as well as "pull" AMI architectures.
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