AUTOMATIC UTILITIES AUDITING The New Way for Energy and Water Management

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AUTOMATIC UTILITIES AUDITINGThe New Way for
Energy and Water Management
Why Shouldnt The Consumer Own and Run The Show
!!! and Kill Two Birds With One Stone

• Colin Boughton-Smith
• Managing Director
• Energy Metering Technology Limited

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The two birds that can be killed by Automatic
Utilities Auditing are

• the modern tool for energy and water consumption
  auditing
• 2. the panacea to the UKs current Utilities
  metering/billing chaos

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The main thing I want to do is show you how
entrepreneurial developments on the Consumer
side of the Utilities fence are able to be used
on the Suppliers side of the Utilities fence
and possibly be the panacea to the current
utilities metering chaos
Potential Panacea to Utility Metering Chaos
Supplier
Consumer
Energy Metering Technology Ltd.
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What Im going to talk about

• A little about EMT and our achievements
• AUA - The Modern Tool for Energy and Water
  Consumption Auditing
• Examples of AUA in action
• AUA - The panacea to the current utilities
  metering chaos ?

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What Im going to talk about

• A little about EMT and our achievements
• AUA - The Modern Tool for Energy and Water
  Consumption Auditing
• Examples of AUA in action
• AUA - The panacea to the current utilities
  metering chaos ?

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Who are EMT where are we coming from!

• part of Energy Control Group Limited
• working on Major Energy Consumers side of the
  utilities fence since 1981 (as EMT since 1993)
• providing utility consumption and cost saving
  turn key metering systems and services
• developers and promoters of the concept of
  Automatic Utilities Auditing
• now looking at migrating the concept to SMEs
  and across the utilities fence

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EMTs major achievements
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1991Development of DYNAMAT Meter Data Analysis
Package

• Automatic Cost Analysis
• Billing
• Bill checking
• Tariff adjudication
• Automatic MT Consumption Analysis
• By self learned profiles
• By benchmarking
• By regression against consumption driver
• DYNAMAT was originally developed as an automatic
  analysis package manual data entry was added as
  an option later.

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1994 Identification of Automatic Utilities
Auditing as a new way for energy and water
management

• Modern MetersplusAutomatic Meter Reading (AMR)
  plus Automatic Analysis Software
• allows
• Automatic Utilities Auditing

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1995 Development of DATA BIRD low cost
Automatic Meter Reading System for Major Energy
Users
1995 AWARD
DETR BRECSU BEST PRACTICE RD
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2002 The CHICK AMR system for SMEs and the
concept of Consumer owns meter readings
2002 AWARD
DTI SMART AWARD FOR INNOVATION
2002 AWARD
DTI SMART AWARD FOR INNOVATION
The son of DATA BIRD !
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STOP PRESS November 2002
Don Lack Leicesters Energy Manager Wins Energy
Manager of the Year Award!!
Leicester City Council DATA BIRD System
2002 AWARD
Don Lack Energy Manager Of the Year
Welford House
Central Library
Marlborough House
Phoenix House
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Some of EMTs Customers

• Army - 42 camps
• ExCeL London International Exhibition Centre
• Friskies
• Leicester City Council
• Leeds Metropolitan University
• Lincoln General Hospital
• News International
• Natural History Museum
• Royal Air Force - 19 bases
• Weetabix
• etc.

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What Im going to talk about

• A little about EMT and our achievements
• AUA - The Modern Tool for Energy and Water
  Consumption Auditing
• Examples of AUA in action
• AUA - The panacea to the current utilities
  metering chaos ?

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• AUTOMATIC UTILITIES AUDITING
• provides a
• New Way for Energy and Water Management

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So what is Automatic Utilities Auditing?
Simply

• the extensive use of metering and automatic
  meter reading systems (AMR) and data analysis
  software as a continuous utilities consumption
  and cost auditing tool

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WE HAVENT BEEN ABLE TO DO IT BEFORE BECAUSE THE
TECHNOLOGY WAS NOT RIGHT NOR WAS THE COST BUT
NOW IT IS GETTING THERE!
technology cost
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The old way of conducting energy and water
auditing Qualified person counting light
fittings and windows burning lots of shoes
leather then writing fat report !
If only I had some metering and data logging
equipment!
Clip Board
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What we got for all that trouble.
I wish my client would read and action my energy
audit report!
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Lord Kelvin said (Circa 1900)When you can
measure what you are talking about, you can
express it in numbers, you know something about
it but when you cannot measure it and express it
in numbers your knowledge is limited.
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The philosophy is not really new, and this famous
engineers was right We just havent been able to
do this so well before because we didnt have the
tools to do it! BUT WE DO NOW!
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The three that must go together1.Modern
Metersplus2.Automatic Meter Reading Systems
plus3. Automatic Analysis Softwaregives
Automatic Utilities Auditing
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Meters and AMR are just the means to get data.
Its what you do with the data thats
important! Automatic Analysis Softwareis the
key
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Automatic Analysis Softwareis continuously
developing providing libraries of advanced data
analysis algorithms and techniques.Allowing on
the fly, expert analyses, effectively being
your eyes and brain on the data

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So what is the strategy!

• Grow Automatic Utilities Auditing system as
  follows
• start with main utility incoming meters and apply
  AMR and automatic analysis
• plan submetering strategy
• form energy accountable centres (EAC)
• grow sub-metering concentrating on energy
  intensive (cost intensive) EACs and pick up
  simultaneously with AMR system.

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So what can automatic utilities auditing do !

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So what can Automatic Utilities Auditing do !

• 1. Displaces, with mass data analysis techniques
  (e.g. benchmarking, MT, expert analysis), the
  need to get detailed information manually for
  auditing

Can be likened to the development of the
Microscope in the medical profession - we can now
see the cell structures and abnormalities
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So what can Automatic Utilities Auditing do !

• 2. De-mans and de-skills much of the slog
  energy management tasks thus allowing the expert
  (be it a consultant or site energy manager) to
  concentrate on where things are wrong and more
  important technical and strategic issues.

let the metering work for you - use the otherwise
idle asset as a real time saving tool !
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So what can Automatic Utilities Auditing do !

• 3. Allows auditing to be done automatically,
  and continuously every, say, 30 minutes, instead
  of every 3 to 5 years (which never happens
  anyway)

Dynamic auditing instead of as found on the
day continuous picture as opposed to a snap
shot
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So what can Automatic Utilities Auditing do !

• 4. Enables analysis simply not possible by the
  traditional clip board, shoe leather, fat
  report methods

less in the consultants opinion judgements !
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So what can Automatic Utilities Auditing do !

• 5. continuous auditing process allows automatic
  identification, pin pointing and diagnostics of
  dynamic wastage leading to savings by early
  rectification action

Increased savings by minimising avoidable waste
!
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So what can Automatic Utilities Auditing do !

• 6. together with Utilities IT systems allows
  utilities procurement to be optimised i.e.
  purchased at the best price and reconciled for
  consumptions and costs.

Get rid of paper billing and know your only
paying for what you are using!
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So what can Automatic Utilities Auditing do !

• 7. Enables easy, continuous before and after
  monitoring of the effectiveness of a saving
  measure after it has been implemented.

Real measurement of savings will help to drive
any utilities saving programme!
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So what can Automatic Utilities Auditing do !

• FINALLY
• 8. Gets Energy and Utilities Management into the
  IT world

Like Accountants and Coal Miners we Energy
Engineers must move with the times!
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The three that must go together1.Modern
Metersplus2.Automatic Meter Reading Systems
plus3. Automatic Analysis Softwaregives
Automatic Utilities Auditing
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The three that must go together1.Modern
Metersplus2.Automatic Meter Reading Systems
plus3. Automatic Analysis Softwaregives
Automatic Utilities Auditing
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EMTs Dedicated Automatic Meter Reading
Systems

• Major Energy Users DATA BIRD
• SMEs CHICK (son of DATA BIRD)

Purpose designed, dedicated meter reading systems
built with many features to ensure good meter
reading integrity
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1995 Development of DATA BIRD for low cost AMR
on consumer side of the fence

• Low power radio based with hard wire option
• Solar powered or mains powered
• multi-utility capability
• up to 10 kilometres range

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Temperature Sensor etc.
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Low Power Radio based Mains powered DATA BIRD
Low Power Radio based mains powered DATA BIRD
Elec Meter
Gas Meter
Water Meter
Elec Meter
Gas Meter
Water Meter
Pressure Sensor etc.
P
DATA BIRD Central Receiver Data Logger
Hard wired mains powered DATA BIRD
Hard wire
Elec Meter
Gas Meter
Water Meter
Low Power Radio solar powered DATA BIRD
Modem Or GSM
PC Running DYNAMAT
NETWORK
Gas Meter
Water Meter
Mixed Configuration DATA BIRD
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Typical solar powered DATA BIRD Installations
Open field pole mount
Wall mount on building
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ARCHITECTURE OF TYPICAL MAJOR ENERGY
USERSAUTOMATIC UTILITIES AUDITING
SYSTEMSUSING DATA BIRD
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Leicester City Council DATA BIRD System
DYNAMAT
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Leeds Metropolitan University DATA BIRD System
(Sits on University Network)
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Desired Configuration For DATA BIRD Maintenance
and DYNAMAT Support
Temperature Sensor etc.
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Low Power Radio based mains powered DATA BIRD
Low Power Radio Based Solar Powered DATA BIRD
Gas Meter
Water Meter
Elec Meter
Gas Meter
Water Meter
DATA BIRD Central Receiver Data Logger
PC at Clients Site Running DYNAMAT
Splitter Box
Modem
Modem
PC at Head Office
Optional Modem
Modem
Dedicated Telephone line
Telephone T Switch
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ARCHITECTURE OF TYPICAL SMALL TO MEDIUM SIZE
ENTEPRIZE (SME) USERSAUTOMATIC UTILITIES
AUDITING SYSTEMUSING CHICKSLOUGH
GRAMMAR SCHOOL
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Small to Medium Size Businesses are in a very
difficult position

• They cant afford utility expertise in-house
• and
• They cant afford to buy in from outside

AUTOMATIC UTILITIES AUDITING can provide the
answer!
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Bureau Expert Analysis Services
Alarm
Alarm
Alarm
DYNAMAT
DYNAMAT
DYNAMAT
Alarming via Internet
Internet, PSTN or GSM
CHICK Receiver/ Data Logger
SME Consumer Connection
Internet or Hard Wire
SME Consumers PC
CHICK
CHICK
CHICK
Electricity Meter(s)
Gas Meter(s)
Water Meter(s)
CHICK is a lower cost, less powerful son of DATA
BIRD for SMEs It is currently being trialed in
the Schools market with release later this year.
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The three that must go together1.Modern
Metersplus2.Automatic Meter Reading Systems
plus3. Automatic Analysis Softwaregives
Automatic Utilities Auditing
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Utilities Auditing Software DYNAMAT

• Automatic Cost Analysis
• Billing
• Bill checking
• Tariff adjudication
• Automatic MT Consumption Analysis
• By self learned profiles
• By benchmarking
• By regression against consumption driver

DYNAMAT was originally designed as an automatic
program. Manual data entry was added as an
option later.
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DYNAMAT Users

• MoD Bases
• NHS Trusts
• Universities
• Local Authorities
• Manufacturing Industry
• Schools
• Museums and Libraries
• Public Transport

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What Im going to talk about

• A little about EMT and our achievements
• AUA - The Modern Tool for Energy and Water
  Consumption Auditing
• Examples of AUA in action
• AUA - The panacea to the current utilities
  metering chaos ?

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Some very simple examples of DATA BIRD AUA

• Simple Benchmarking
• Early identification of Dynamic Wastage
• Data Back filling on Code 5 Meters
• Identification of things you would never believe!
• Some Leicester City Council simple examples

All identifying significant savings opportunities
!
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Example 1 Simple BenchmarkingWater
Consumption on RAF BasesRAF Henlow vs. RAF
Waddington
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1994 As Found profile of RAF Henlows water
consumption Why is the night line so high?
Leakage _at_ 25 cubic metres per hour _at_
0.85/cubic metre 186,000 a year water wastage
alone !
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Compare RAF Henlow to RAF Waddington night
line down to 3 cubic metres/hour! With expert
analysis, including benchmarking, there is no
need to look at the profiles !
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Dynamic Wastage Here is a burst water main
leaking _at_ approximately 10 cubic metres/hr,
costing 8.50/hr
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Example 2 Early Identification of
WastageMain Water pipe failure at RAF
Innsworth
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Automatic, continuous analysis can automatically
detect a problem and alert the consumer saving
a lot of money by early rectification This is a
typical application of expert analysis
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Example 3 Backfilling of Code 5 Meter
DataMain Electrical Incomer at Royal Docks HV
Network
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The LEBs Code 5 meter dial up failed, and they
back filled with estimated half hourly values,
taking no account of differences in consumption
between summer and winter. The Consumer
independently monitored the supply and obtained a
30,000 refund!
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Example 4 Identification of things you would
never believe! Summer use of storage heaters
at Leeds Metropolitan University
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Storage heaters left on their time clocks during
the summer holidays. Wastage costing 4,500 p.a,
only identified by looking at the profiles.
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Example 5 - Leicester City Council DATA BIRD
System
Central Library
Welford House
Phoenix House
Marlborough House
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Leicester City Council DATA BIRD System
DYNAMAT
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Leicester City Council Evington Pool
Base load increased by 5kW when pumps manually
switched over to standby pump which does not have
variable speed drive
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Leicester City Council Goodacre House
Out of Hours water use identified over a
weekend Users asked to look around and switch off
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Leicester City Council Marlborough House
Heating manually switched to constant ON over
Christmas period Cost 680 in extra gas usage
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Leicester City Council Aylestone Leisure Centre
Equipment left running out of normal hours
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Some immediate examples of what the CHICK has
found at Slough Grammar School, itsfirst trial
site.
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Most of 20kW base load is boiler room pumps and
fans left running overnight and during Christmas
holidays. A saving of 3,500 p.a, which by itself
pays for the Chick installation in the first 4
months of operation.
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Worn washer on an outside tap at rear of Canteen,
which was costing 800 p.a. Too small to show up
by checking bills, known about but not considered
significant but easily identified and quantified
by Automatic Utilities Auditing
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Increase in water consumption while caretaker was
on holiday, immediately detected by the Chick.
School Business Manager was alerted, and when
caretaker returned he found a tap left on. Cost
over 2 weeks was 100.
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What Im going to talk about

• A little about EMT and our achievements
• AUA - The Modern Tool for Energy and Water
  Consumption Auditing
• Examples of AUA in Action
• AUA - The Panacea to the Current Utilities
  Metering Chaos ?

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Customers began to realise The integrity of
the meter data from their AUA systems is far
superior to anything that is available from
manual meter reading and in many cases Code 5
meters!So why shouldnt the data be used for
billing?
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What are the Problems in Utility Metering
?Quote from local Slough schoolIve not had
a decent meter reading for any of my energy
utilities for last three years !

• Bills with estimated readings
• No bills
• Wrong meter readings
• Wrong tariff applied
• Wrong meter
• New meters not registered
• Data back filling

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Why are there problems in Utility Metering ?

• Metering was not ready for Competitive Market
• Churn of Utility Suppliers in quest for
  competition
• Churn of Meter Operators in quest for competition
• Meter reading services cut to bone to be more
  competitive
• Now
• Fragmentation of services in strive for
  competition making a very confused market Meter
  Operator, Data Aggregator etc. etc.
• Compounded with
• Denationalised dinosaur Suppliers burying their
  heads in the sand on technology
• Manual meter reading a task too arduous for
  millennium 2000
• Ofgem logo -Bringing Choice and Value to
  Customers ??

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Radical Conceptual ChangeConsumer owns own
meter readings
AUA can provide the panacea! By owning their own
multi-utility AMR and providing meter readings to
the Utilities for billing the Consumer will be
empowered This can truly bring Choice and Value
to Customers
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Leicester City Council DATA BIRD System
DYNAMAT
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Trialing Self Billing Through the Internet?
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Bureau Analysis Services
Utility Supply Services
Alarm
Alarm
Alarm
Elec. Bill
Gas. Bill
Water Bill
Elec.. Supplier
Gas Supplier
Water Supplier
Billing Alarming via Internet
Internet , PSTN or GSM
Chick Receiver/ Data Logger
SME Consumer Connection
Internet or Hard Wire
SME Consumers PC
Chick
Chick
Chick
Electricity Meter(s)
Gas Meter(s)
Water Meter(s)
Chick is a lower cost, less powerful son of DATA
BIRD for SMEs It is currently being trialed in
the Schools market with release later this year.
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Alternative Data Warehouse - Consumer Owns Data
Utility Suppliers
Value Added Bureau Services
Consumer
Electricity Supplier
Gas Supplier
Water Supplier
Alarms
Alarms
Alarms
Bills Alarms
Data
Bill
Bill
Bill
Data
Data
Data
Data
Data
Data
Alarms
Alarms
Alarms
Data Warehouse
Internet and/or PSTNand/or GSM
Site Data Logger

Electricity Meter(s)
Gas Meter(s)
Water Meter(s)
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Need for simple common protocol
CUSTOMER
SUPPLIER
Choice of Metering Systems
Choice of Utility Supplier
Ofgem logo Bringing choice and value to
customers
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Any feed back on Ideas!!!
Why shouldnt the Consumer own and run the show
!!!
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Barriers to Proliferation of AUA

• Market Lack of Understanding of concept
• Resistance to change
• Pre-microprocessor, poor reputation of sub-meters
  
• Lack of Government acceptance and backing
• Difficulty interfacing to Utility Company meters
• Lack of interest from dinosaur Utilities
• Some meter costs still high e.g. heat and steam

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The times they are a changing .

• DINOSAUR SUPPLIERS who have their head in the
  sand on technology will become extinct !

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The Good News! The take-up of the application
of AUA is gathering pace. This is mainly due to

• Expectation of our IT world
• The information is needed
• Good experience of users
• Competition building

If the Utilities see that IT can provide the
panacea to their current Metering problems, the
take-up will be massive!
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Effect of Unbundling to us
For the application of AUA our only involvement
with the Utilities is permission and cost to
interface to fiscal meters or, in some instances
to change them out.
If the Government want Carbon Savings they
should make Customer meter data interface a
statutory obligation and free of charge!
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Effect of Unbundling to us

• The Bad News
• Fragmentation has led to increased bureaucracy in
  trying to achieve meter interface
• Customers are very confused and have very little
  understanding of who does what and when!
• Many Suppliers do not have a clue about metering
• In some instances the cost of interface has gone
  up

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Effect of Unbundling to us
The Good News TRANSCO Unbundling

• TRANSCO have implemented an
• Internet based Permissions Procedure
• It used to take a solid 4 months of bureaucracy
  to get
• permission to interface via the Shipper !
• Now it only takes minutes !
• The cost of gas meter interface has reduced
  significantly !

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Effect of Unbundling to usCost of Customer Meter
Interface

• Electricity meters - what used to cost around
  25/output 3 outputs generally needed so cost
  used to be around 75 - Now sometimes costs
  90/channel plus loads of administration!
• Gas meters - used to cost up to 485 - now costs
  between 100 (isolating relay cost) and 380
• Water meters - 80 (pulse output module)

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SOME SIMPLE RELATED ASPECTS TO CONSIDER

• Existing meter face reading ultimate
  safety net/confidence back stop
• Potential avoidance of UKs AMR stranded
  assets problem
• Consumer can simply shop around (change
  supplier every 28 days if he has a mind too!)
• AMR and associated analysis can bring enhanced
  revenue protection
• Targeting fraud force rather than blanket two
  yearly eye ball read/safety inspection which
  doesnt happen anyway

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Concluding
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Conclusion One
AUTOMATIC UTILITIES AUDITING Provides a new
way for energy and water management And can
produce significant savings
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Conclusion Two
AUTOMATIC UTILITIES AUDITING Can provide a
panacea to current Utilities Metering Chaos
That is, if the Utilities let us get over the
other side of the fence !!!!!
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EMT
Supplier
Consumer
THANK YOU FOR LISTENING !!!
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For further details contact

• Energy Metering Technology
• 57 High Street
• Burnham
• Slough SL1 7JX
• Tel [phone]
• Fax [phone]
• Email sales_at_eccl.co.uk