Smart Metering & Sub-Metering Strategy
Design of a metering architecture that answers specific questions — tenant billing, departmental allocation, efficiency measurement or compliance reporting — rather than installing meters and hoping the data proves useful afterwards.
What this study establishes.
Metering objectives defined per stakeholder, with the questions each meter must answer.
Meter point schedule with position, accuracy class and measured quantities per point.
Hierarchy design allowing energy balance and reconciliation between levels.
Communications architecture — protocol, topology, data rate and cyber considerations.
Data model defining retention, aggregation and reporting outputs.
Phased implementation plan prioritised by the value of the question each stage answers.
What the work covers.
Design of a metering architecture that answers specific questions — tenant billing, departmental allocation, efficiency measurement or compliance reporting — rather than installing meters and hoping the data proves useful afterwards.
A metering hierarchy that does not close — where sub-meters do not reconcile against the parent within a sensible tolerance — undermines confidence in every number it produces. Designing for reconciliation from the start is what makes the data defensible later.
What lands in your inbox.
Metering objectives defined per stakeholder,
Metering objectives defined per stakeholder, with the questions each meter must answer.
Meter point schedule
Meter point schedule with position, accuracy class and measured quantities per point.
Hierarchy design allowing energy balance and reconciliation
Hierarchy design allowing energy balance and reconciliation between levels.
Communications architecture
Communications architecture — protocol, topology, data rate and cyber considerations.
Data model defining retention, aggregation and reporting
Data model defining retention, aggregation and reporting outputs.
Phased implementation plan prioritised by the value
Phased implementation plan prioritised by the value of the question each stage answers.
How we run it.
Scope & data capture
We confirm the question the study must answer, agree the measurement or modelling points, and collect what the work depends on: distribution hierarchy and the boundaries that need to be measured; billing, allocation or reporting obligations that drive accuracy requirements; existing metering and bms infrastructure that can be.
Measurement & modelling
Engineers carry out the measurement and modelling on site and in software, under operating conditions representative of the problem rather than a single convenient snapshot.
Analysis against standard
Results are assessed against IEC 62053 series, IEC 61557-12, ISO 50001 and ISO 50006, with the assessment basis and any measurement uncertainty stated rather than implied.
Report & recommendations
You receive a signed engineering report with findings ranked by consequence, the reasoning behind each conclusion, and mitigation options costed so they can be acted on or deferred deliberately.
Assessed against the published limits.
Common questions.
Typically in one of these situations: tenant recharging or departmental cost allocation is needed and cannot be substantiated; iso 50001 or a sustainability reporting obligation requires measured data; existing meters produce data nobody uses or trusts. If none of these apply, the study is unlikely to be the right next step and we will say so.
To scope and run the work we need distribution hierarchy and the boundaries that need to be measured; billing, allocation or reporting obligations that drive accuracy requirements; existing metering and bms infrastructure that can be reused. Where any of it is missing we can establish it on site, which changes the scope rather than blocking the work.
Primarily IEC 62053 series, IEC 61557-12, ISO 50001 and ISO 50006, IEC 62056 / DLMS-COSEM. The applicable framework depends on your connection agreement and jurisdiction, so we confirm which applies before measurement rather than after.
Ready to start the engagement?
Tell us about your site and the problem you are seeing. We come back with a fixed scope, a fixed fee, and a named lead engineer.