Benefits Of Choosing The Azalea Smart Meter

The Azalea Smart Meter from Senical has been designed for rapid deployment and simple maintenance in the domestic electricity metering sector. This provides a number of unique benefits over more traditional smart metering technologies.

Faster Deployment

Typically the Azalea Smart Meter can be installed, tested and configured in under fifteen minutes, utilising a workforce that requires a minimal skill set and minimal tooling. This means that for every one of the traditional meter installations (taking around 60 minutes) you can deploy up to four of the Azalea Smart Meters.

Less Waste

Because the Azalea Smart Meter does not require the decommissioning of the existing meter then the amount of waste generated is naturally minimised. This means that the problem of what to do with over 23 million 'old' meters becomes something of a moot point.

Robust Communication Architecture

The Azalea Smart Meter uses the existing GPRS infrastrucuture, using SMS and MMS for simple data transfer and meter reconfiguration, and 3G protocols for remote firmware updates. Using the existing, proven, infrastructure means that the communication and data transfer costs are far less than setting up and maintaining independant data collectors and transfer points. As well as this the unit is also capable of short range RF communication and, if necessary, can be configured to use Bluetooth for local communications.

In House Software

Senical's control and communication software takes care of read requests, tariff changes, meter configurations and a range of other functions. As this is written in house by Senical we can ensure that there are no costly third party mistakes and hidden costs for software changes. Add to this Senical's experience in project management within the IT industry and you can be assured of a quality implementation that meets your business needs and integrates quickly into your existing enterprise.

Reduced Deployment And Ownership Costs

Because the Azalea Smart Meter can be deployed so quickly, and utilizes an existing communications infrastructure, both the roll-out and ongoing ownership costs are greatly reduced when compared with more traditional smart metering technologies.

Extensible

As well as the capabilities of a smart meter in a unit just the size of a mobile phone, the Azalea smart meter can also be extended by being configured to talk directly to its sister product, the RAV Automated Meter Reader from Senical. This means you can deploy smart metering capability for electricity networks, and AMR for gas networks for not much extra cost. The RAV AMR has also been designed for rapid deployment and can be installed in under a minute.

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