Your primary goal is to deliver heat to your customers – and to ensure correct billing based on precise heat meter readings.
Intelligent meters and remote meter reading help you look at your network in a simple way and with clear objectives:
Use your resources to the best possible extent
Ensure happy customers
And optimise your business
This step towards digititalising you utility provides more and reliable data – and the more data you have, the more value you can create.
The data from intelligent meters can be automatically collected via the remote meter reading solution READy. Either as a drive-by solution or a fully automated network reading system (or a combination). What to choose depends on your needs.
Our second-generation multi-utility solution combines two highly specialized systems that give electricity, heat and water utilities maximum value of their meter data. Start which either of the two systems and expand your solution when you need it.
Supporting both wired and wireless M-Bus, READy can be used for remote reading of water meters, heat and cooling meters, electricity meters and Kamstrup pressure sensors. The system can be fitted to meet your needs in terms of data collection and frequency. Depending on your situation, the remote reading of your meters can take place in several ways:
You can read your meters on the go with READy Mobile Reading by driving around your supply area. You can also combine your Mobile Reading solution with small-scale data collection units placed at strategic customers or at strategic locations in your supply area to enrich your regular readings used for billing with more detailed information. If you need daily or hourly values, you can establish a fixed network covering your supply area partly or fully with a number of data-collection units. Finally, you can also read your wired meters with READy.
A READy system can easily be adjusted to meet different needs and it can be expanded as your needs change. If you have chosen mobile meter reading, it is therefore easy to upgrade and expand to a network – one area at a time or all areas in one go.
To ensure a high and consistent accuracy, each water meter must be verified according to national or international regulations before use. In some countries, either a portion of or all meters must also be re-verified at a given interval to ensure that the accuracy does not diminish over time.
But how does the dynamic range of a water meter influence the meter reverification, and why can it be more troublesome to re-verify a meter with higher dynamic range?
As of May 2018, when the new GDPR took effect, you must to a greater extent consider how you collect, protect and handle your tenants’ data. In other words, you must be able to document the security level in your metering solutions and how you and your solution provider handle data security.
According to the GDPR, data protection and security must be implemented in a metering solution from the start. This makes it tempting to believe that your solution provider is responsible for data security. And he is – too – but since you work with consumption reading, you are responsible for ensuring that your solutions comply with the GDPR. Therefore, you must know what to ask your solutions provider to ensure your operation and what to answer if tenants have questions about their data protection rights.
John Doe
E-mail: johndoe@kamstrup.com
T: +45 0000 0000
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