Meter Reading Services

DataCol established its reputation as a leader in New Zealand's newly deregulated environment in its provision of contract meter reading services for water, power and gas energy utilities. DataCol developed its powerful platform Seven X on the back of our coalface experience providing meter reading services in the first - and arguably most tumultuous - of the world's deregulated energy environments. Our meter reading services, which are currently available in New Zealand only, include:

  • Scheduled meter reading services
  • Special final reading services
  • Key management
  • Round scheduling

DataCol's meter reading services can be broken into three separate levels:

  • Contract Management of a Meter Reading Force - This meter reading service enables the retailer to maintain control of the meter reading system and handheld computers. DataCol manages the meter readers and makes sure all reads are accurate, completed and forwarded on time.
  • Contract Management of a Meter Reading System and Force - This meter reading service option involves DataCol operating a utility's meter reading system, providing scheduling assistance and the meter reading team.
  • Total Service Provision - DataCol supplies the meter reading systems, scheduling and meter reading teams to offer a complete contract service to the utility. This can be for nation-wide, per region or per network coverage. This meter reading service incorporates all functionality of a non-TOU Data Administrator and offers industry compliance for data collection and forwarding.

In today's deregulated environment getting utilities' nation-wide meter reads back from a variety of meter reading service providers on time and in the correct file format has not been an easy task.

DataCol has addressed this challenge by developing Seven X, a unique software system that allows for a variety of different meter reading service methods to be compiled simultaneously in any format for a number of different utility customers.

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