Smart metering presents some big opportunities and challenges. Reliable accurate readings together with meter operation and rich consumption data will simplify existing costly processes.

The emergence of smart grids will see a shift in the roles and responsibilities between existing market participants. Your organisation needs a quick way to understand their impact on policies, operations and information systems before the mandated smart meter rollout in 2012.

The data and functions available on smart meters will enable energy suppliers and distributors to:
• understand customers to improve customer service
• make more customer payment options available, blurring the boundary between credit and prepayment
• obtain early notification of the occurrence and location of network outages
• introduce demand-side management and control of embedded generation

OUR SMART DATA SERVICE
Logica’s Smart Data Service is based on our award-winning Instant Energy head-end and prepayment solution. We are helping suppliers and meter operators gain the benefits of smart metering today whilst preparing their business for the future. We are helping them to hone their customer engagement and installation processes, both of which are critical to ensure a positive consumer experience of smart metering.

Our service offers prepayment with links to PayPoint and Payzone. It enables radically-reduced cost-to-serve for traditional prepayment customers through our rich smart-prepayment functionality. With us, you could go a step further and think about new innovative tariffs including time of use pricing for the energy you supply.