Smart Metering
With climate change powering the green agenda, utilities like yours are faced with increasing regulation to reduce energy consumption. Developing new services can help you to make up some of the lost revenues. But to succeed you need to be able to control the grid more intelligently and help your customers manage their personal consumption.
Smart metering, based on two-way real-time communications with smart meters, enables you to do just that.
At Logica we have led the way with award-winning smart metering projects. We have the expertise to help you realise the full value from smart metering with real-time data and smart grids.
How Logica can help you
Our in-depth knowledge of metering and utilities, based on almost 20 years experience from grid metering to smart meters, enables us to:
- Manage business processes from end-to-end of the utility – unlike traditional meter manufacturers. So, for example, we delivered a complete meter communications solution for E.ON in the Nordics, from meter installation, through IT integration to an ongoing meter data BPO service. See our expertise in action for yourself at one of our demonstration centres across Europe
- Deliver big, complex projects handling large amounts of real-time data. For example, we set up central electricity or gas markets in several countries including the UK, Czech Republic and Australia
- Develop valuable applications – from wind farms to energy efficiency, balancing and settlement to asset management – to help you maximise the value of the real-time data from smart meters
- Lead the way with innovative, award-winning solutions. These include the BCS award for social responsibility for a prepayment metering service for Centrica, in the UK. You can experience emerging smart metering technologies first-hand at our Spark innovation centre in Portugal.
- Energy efficiency>>
With smart metering solutions providing real-time information to your customers, through the web or in-home displays, you can encourage more intelligent consumption. Your customers see the cost and level of their energy consumption, at any given time, which encourages them to reduce or change the timing of energy use. Vaxjo Energy - web-based information service for energy consumers>>
- Smart grids>>
As personal power generation becomes more feasible, such as using excess energy from roof-top solar panels, the energy pushed to the grid has to be managed. Smart grids can run autonomously at local level, deriving local information from the smart meters located there, as well as informing the control centre about what is happening, so that strategic actions, such as adjusting the network elsewhere, or sending out a repair crew to mend faults can take place.
- New and improved services>>
Smart meters help you get a better understanding of your customers' lifestyles, by showing you how their energy consumption changes throughout the day. This allows you to offer more flexible services such as mobile-phone style tariffs that offer different charges at various times. Smart metering also enables more accurate billing, which provides a better customer experience and boosts your competitiveness. Centrica - Pre-payments metering service>>
- Meeting regulatory demands>>
Some regulators are mandating the installation of smart meters, or demanding that meters can be read on a much more frequent basis. This is leading to a need for large-scale, integrated, smart metering solutions and services. Logica has the unique blend of metering experience, partners and broad utility knowledge to meet the requirements. Vattenfall - large scale smart metering>>
Find out more about how smart metering can transform your organisation: smart.metering@logica.com