Introduction of smart metering systems

Different types of metering equipment are used on the market to measure electricity consumption and generation. These are, for example, conventional manually read electronic single or bidirectional meters or modern remotely readable meters. Smart metering systems are modern metering devices that are equipped with a smart meter gateway. As an interface between the meter and the communication network, this gateway allows direct readout of the processed metered values. The smart metering systems can measure quarter-hourly load profile values and report them continuously. So far, the customer uses these load profile values for balancing, but not for billing for the time being. Therefore, conceptual challenges arise for the presentation in the internal systems (master data application, incoming document system and energy information system). After implementation according to the specifications of the specialist departments, user training is provided and the system is handed over to the internal IT department.