Advanced Meter Infrastructure Solution
Reduce Deployment Costs and Risks, Automate Manual Processes and Achieve Flexibility To Take Charge of Your Future
Global market restructuring, higher energy prices, regulatory demands and pressure to reduce costs are intensifying the competitive landscape.
And if these challenges weren't enough, your customers are demanding more information and ways to control their energy costs. You have to rethink your IT strategies and better align them to your business strategies. First up: deploying an advanced metering infrastructure solution. But without experienced help, such a system can be difficult to implement and costly to manage by yourself.
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Reduce deployment costs and risks, automate manual processes and achieve flexibility to take charge of your future.
Integrate Data From Automated Meters Into Existing Business Systems
The HP Advanced Meter Infrastructure Solution helps you overcome these challenges by providing effective two-way communication with commercial, industrial and residential meters. We integrate data collected from the meters into your crucial business systems such as billing, customer service, field services and energy-demand management. This gives you a real-time view into a greater volume of data at a more granular level, leading to faster analysis and better decision-making around capacity demand. Your customers benefit from better access to account information and reduced billing errors – while you provide better service that costs you less.
Our solution supports everything from design engineering to integration with your legacy systems. And we partner with companies such as EMC, Sun Microsystems and Oracle to provide the best-in-class technologies needed to build your infrastructure and store your data.
The highly scalable data management system runs on multiple architectures, including Windows, Solaris, UNIX and Linux. And it supports technology from any metering hardware or software provider – a real benefit over the long-term since the technology will continue to change.
Additional Value-Added Services
Applications rationalization/modernization – revitalize your legacy applications so you can rapidly and cost-efficiently respond to changing market conditions.
Managed customer interaction solution – improve customer service by having HP manage your contact-center processes using a common technology platform, applications and expert support staff.
A flexible solution you can depend on
Enjoy peace of mind with HP's end-to-end project management. Using our proven methodologies, we efficiently manage your programs, staff and vendors and minimize risk or disruption to your existing infrastructure.
And our solution is capable of handling a massive volume of data so you don't have to upgrade your legacy systems.
Unlike other vendor solutions, the HP Advanced Meter Infrastructure Solution doesn't favor one communications path over another. You have multiple alternatives, such as:
- Public and private radio frequencies
- Power line and broadband over power line (BPL)
- Paging and cellular networks
- Satellite technology
Energize Your Utility Business
As one of the top service providers in the energy industry, HP has the expertise to help you improve operations through advanced technology and proven business processes.
Here's what you can achieve with the HP Advanced Meter Infrastructure Solution:
- Reduce costs – Significantly reduce what you spend on meter-reading, including labor, fleet and safety-related costs. Cut costs further by outsourcing one or more meter-to-cash-related activities:
- Data management
- Billing
- Remittance processing
- Credit and collections
- Call-center operations
- Mitigate risk – Capitalize on HP's experience in efficiently managing meter deployment and integrating systems to access information collected from the meters
- Manage supply and demand – Use industry-best systems and processes to better manage resource demand and offer your customers incentives for using more power during off-peak periods
- Optimize distribution assets – Maximize your use of transformers, capacitors and feeder lines
- Improve customer satisfaction – Ensure more accurate meter reads through automated, remote data collection and transfers; our solution also streamlines back-office processing for billing, asset management and outage management so your customers receive information about outages by phone or Internet without having to call customer service
- Generate new revenue streams – Deliver profitable and valuable usage-based fee services such as BPL Internet services, home security and appliance diagnostic services for devices in the home
For more information about what HP can do for you, submit a business inquiry.