UASG / AES ( SPOTLESS GROUP ) ENERGY exclusively . The company has installed more than 880,000 smart meters in Victoria and carries out a large network metering contracts throughout Australia .
Metering is no longer a drudge for staff and customers alike , he stresses . His innovations and emerging markets team has created unique devices for saving and tracking water consumption called SmartPipe . With the backing of Spotless , UASG is developing a metering centric application called MIMTR , which is going to be able to provide all metering services from a single device under one system . “ Our view of it is that it provides , uniquely , a contractor portal for field mobility and data acquisition . It provides a customer portal for the utility to get real time access to their data via an internet browser . Plus a consumer APP so if customers get an estimated reading , they can enter their own data and can put the right information direct into the utility ’ s system through our interface . Customers get frustrated when they receive estimated bills , but now they can enter their own data on a highly secure channel . From the utility ’ s point of view , sincethe
“ We will see a power shift from the distributor-led to a more retailled business as the retailers become more hands-on with infrastructure ”
– Stephen Ellich , CEO of UASG & AES
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