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WATER METERS – GAS METERS –ELECTRICITY METERS
Meter Data Management (MDM) is essential to Smart Grid infrastructure which seems to be experiencing increasing interest worldwide. Flowmeterdirectoy.com is a website with a focus on flowmeters but this subject is worth mentioning because of the growing activity centering on companies who are investing in Meter Data Management in the assumption that it will eventually be fully embraced by utility companies worldwide
MDM or Advanced MDM will be expected to competently handle enormous amounts of data to be retrieved from Smart Meters to managed, stored , analyzed and integrated into utility systems. |
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What is AMI?
Advanced Metering Infrastructure (technology for gathering and disseminating information) An architecture for automated 2 way communication between smart utility meters and the utility company.
The justification for AMI is provision of real time data to utility companies regarding power consumption and to allow their customers to make informed choices about their energy usage based on the current price of that energy at the time of usage.
AMR is Automatic Meter Reading . Various types of reading systems to retrieve Meter Data as opposed to older methods which rely on personnel to physically inspect the Meter Data at the exact location of installation .
Meter Data Collection (MDC) and Aggregation to access, retrieve, group, sum and distribute smart meter data and to configure the meter in line with approved service features.
METER DATA MANAGEMENT
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