Service Management Software: Smart Meters

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Theo Pozzy of Portland General Electric speaks about the changes within the utility industry and how smart meters have made a significant impact on his business. The days of manual meter reading are over. Today, Portland General Electric has greater visibility into its assets by being able to not only read meters remotely, but also having the capability to control them.

Transcript: The smart meters are one of the biggest changes thats happening in the utility industry in the last fifty years and essentially, were replacing meters that were manual devices that the meter men were going out and reading on a regular basis and now were replacing them with meters that we can read remotely. And not only can we read them remotely but we can control them. So, we can turn them on and off as on demand and then, eventually, those meters are also going to provide us a communications gateway into the home for hooking up to the smart appliances that become part of the smart grid.

As part of the smart meter project, were going to be retiring a fleet of a hundred and twenty vehicles that have been used, traditionally, for the meter routes and that reduces our carbon foot print significantly.

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Science & Technology

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• IT service management
• software automation
• Theo Pozzy
• smart meters
• IBM
• Tivoli
• service
• management
• software
• enterprise
• asset
• inventory

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Smart meters are changing energy distribution and consumption. It is said that nearly 60 million smart meters will be installed by 2015. This is a huge task ahead. Companies such as Pacific Crest Transformers are working on the smart system. It manufactures energy-efficient transformers. The company website has articles on whether transformers are ready for the Smart Grid.