02 — Capability · BC-1550
Metering & Meter Data
Know accurately how much electricity, gas and water each customer uses and when, by installing and running meters and their communications network and turning raw reads into validated, bill-ready data. Billing itself and general data platforms sit elsewhere.
- Metering Services
- Meter Operations
- Meter-to-Data
- Metering Point Operations
In scope
- Meter installation, exchange and removal at service points
- Smart meter communications, remote reads and remote commands
- Validation, estimation and editing of interval and register reads
- Revenue protection and the meter asset lifecycle
Out of scope
- General data platforms, data governance and analytics (see BC-750)
- Asset register and lifecycle for network and plant assets (see BC-680.10)
- Usage charging for communications services (see BC-1450)
- Calculating and presenting the customer bill (see BC-1560)
Realized by · 0
- No product in the catalog yet.
Used in · 0
- Not yet placed on a value stream.
Build it · 1
- technology Field Area & Meter Networks via BC-1550.20
Decomposes into · 5
- BC-1550.10Meter Installation & ExchangeFit, replace and remove meters at service points safely and on schedule, and keep the record of which meter measures which premise right from the moment the work is done.
- BC-1550.20Smart Meter Network OperationsKeep the communications network that connects smart meters running, so reads, events and remote commands travel between meters and the utility reliably and securely.
- BC-1550.30Meter Data Validation & EstimationTurn raw meter reads into trusted consumption data by checking every read, estimating what is missing and correcting what is wrong, so bills and settlements rest on numbers that hold up.
- BC-1550.40Revenue ProtectionFind and stop consumption that is taken but not billed, whether through theft, tampering, bypassed or faulty meters, or premises with no account, and recover what is owed within the rules.
- BC-1550.50Meter Asset LifecycleManage each meter from receipt to retirement as a regulated measuring instrument, keeping it accurate, tested and certified, and replacing meter families before they fail or fall out of compliance.