Smart Metering

In recent years, electric utilities have been replacing electromechanical meters with electronic ones. These new meters produce more accurate billing data and enable remote operations and loss prevention. As they spread, utilities need advanced telemetry and monitoring systems to manage large volumes of real-time data.

Key challenges include running many simultaneous reads across multi-vendor meter fleets that use different protocols, and ensuring data integrity without relying on manual procedures prone to human error. A complete smart metering system needs to do much more than collect billing data.

Elipse Power AMI is third-generation meter data collection software, supporting more than 200,000 simultaneous connections per server. Two key advantages stand out:

• Integration of metering data from any meter brand
• Integration with any communication infrastructure and third-party MDM systems

Features

• Distributed collection servers: scale instantly as the network grows
• Independent MDM interface: connects to third-party meter data management systems
• Smart scheduling: prioritizes reads based on priority, available interfaces, and servers
• Fully asynchronous processing: handles many reads in parallel
• Multi-protocol communication: communicates with meters over different protocols

Benefits

• Lower deployment costs
• Lower maintenance and expansion costs
• More reliable collected data
• Lower regulatory risk
• Fewer losses from billing errors
• Full traceability