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UTILITIES INSTALLING ADVANCED METERING INFRASTRUCTURE CAN IMPROVE EFFICIENCY through meter data management (MDM). If deployed correctly, MDM can play a crucial role in advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) rollouts, billing and change management.
For maximum benefits, MDM must include the ability to validate, estimate and edit (VEE) AMI data so that clean and complete data can be delivered to utility systems. In the context of AMI interval data, VEE verifies the accuracy and completeness of the meter data and then fills in the gaps. Because employees get better information sooner, they can work more efficiently, make fewer mistakes and make better-informed decisions. As an added benefit, their customers can view information online the same day it is received.
CASE OF THE MISSING DATA
MDM takes advantage of the "smart" functions of AMI meters to transform VEE as we know it. The legacy vision of VEE is to find issues with the meter: exceptions like sumcheck or missing data. The same meter (or actually, its CPU) is using interval data in the register, so you no longer need sumcheck. The meters are sophisticated enough to notify a user of a problem such as a spike. And there is less missing...