Smart Metering and AMI

A metering programme is judged on one number: the percentage of meters that returned a read on billing day.

Everything else follows from it. Losses cannot be located, feeders cannot be balanced and prepaid cannot be offered if a share of the estate went dark last month. Read success is a communication design problem, and on an AMI rollout it is settled feeder by feeder before a single meter is ordered.

Get SECCOM to test real communication coverage on one feeder before the rollout is sized, at no cost. RF mesh, cellular or a mix: the answer differs between a dense urban feeder and a rural one, and getting it wrong is expensive to reverse.

What you get. A per-feeder communication design with a measured coverage result behind it, and a projected read success rate the programme can be held to.

Where SECCOM stops. Tariff, billing and revenue decisions stay with the utility and its regulator. SECCOM delivers the communication network, the head-end integration and the data path into the systems that make those decisions. Where an AMISP carries the programme, SECCOM builds that layer underneath it.