COS Revenue Assurance App
Echelon’s Revenue Assurance App simplifies your job of finding losses on the low voltage grid. It tracks energy usage both at distribution transformers and at all meters attached to that transformer. Comparing both sets of precise data, it automatically detects discrepancies and generates alarms when specific thresholds have been exceeded. It’s an easier, less manual way to discover loss.
Monitor the key parameters of technical and non-technical loss to preserve revenue and gain grid efficiencies:
- Local sensors monitor consumption at the transformer
- Near real-time comparison of energy delivered by transformer vs. total metered energy from all attached meters yield possible sources of non-technical losses
- When analysis is performed on Echelon’s Edge Control Nodes, utilities can process information locally and avoid backhauling large amounts of meter data to head-end, savings WAN costs
Benefits:
- Identify losses in distribution networks
- Protect revenue and detect theft
- Identify tampering at the meter
- Proactively respond to losses
- Reduce manual process/time needed to investigate tampering and losses
- Identify sources of above-average losses to focus grid improvements for better ROI
For a complete description, refer to the COS Revenue Assurance App datasheet.
COS Revenue Assurance App datasheet (PDF)
COS Service Quality Assurance App datasheet (PDF)
COS Transformer Protection App datasheet (PDF)
Echelon Edge Control Node datasheet (PDF)
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