Meter Data Management

Power Reply can boast solid experience in the support of Energy & Utilities market operators on issues related to Meter Data Management (MDM). In particular, the distinctive elements of Power Reply are:

• A vast knowledge of business processes, the prediction of loads and demand, portfolio optimization and energy pricing;
• The ability to implement efficient information systems to extensively support these processes, using cutting-edge software solutions;
• The presence of highly-qualified professionals focused on these processes and solutions, to guarantee the highest level of expertise;
• The possibility of using a specialized competence center, with offices in Milan and Rome, as a key element for a support team, quick-start and complete economic optimization of the solution;
• Flexible approaches and solutions for specific customer methods and user requirements

Thanks to the expertise developed in the implementation of major MDM systems, Power Reply is the ideal partner for defining Smart Metering solutions. These solutions, made possible by the enhanced ability to gather information from technological networks, combined with new remote operations opportunities on network elements, allow Utilities to adopt a new operational framework characterized by greater efficiency and a better quality of service.

The Italian Authority for Energy has made an investment to extend the Smart Metering service to all distribution networks and to local distributors. In the gas market, the aim of the Authority is to force the introduction of automatic meter reading using a dedicated technology. Currently, the main Italian providers are applying and testing meters and telecommunication systems to produce a standardized model.

Power Reply has forged some important alliances with some of the most important Italian local Utilities, developing a range of services to enable the implementation of Smart Metering solutions with an "immediate delivery" approach: from installation services to logistics, from Project Program Management to Business Process Re-engineering. Knowledge of regulations and market laws, availability of groups entirely devoted to hardware testing, investment in new network technologies and setting strategies on Big Data represent the added value of Power Reply.