Advanced meter provides you with detailed energy usage data. Watch a video on how to read your advanced meter.
Advanced meters are modern electric meters that enable two-way data sharing between your home or business and Hawaiian Electric through a secure wireless communications network. Advanced meters look just like the analog electric meters but with a digital display. Advanced meters are an important component of our grid modernization efforts.
An advanced meter will record 15-minute interval usage data and give you access to it through the My Energy Use Portal. You can easily view how much electricity you use during different hours of the day and compare your usage patterns to previous days and weeks. This can help you to be more aware of your energy use patterns and make smart, cost-saving energy adjustments.
It''s your data, and you have full access to it. The My Energy Use portal provides you with the ability to easily download your energy usage data with granularity down to 15-minute intervals in either Excel (CSV) format or Green Button format (XML).
Green Button is an industry-led initiative to provide utility customers with easy and secure access to their energy use information in standardized XML format. This allows you to provide your data to third parties to utilize - for purposes like programming home energy management devices, sizing and financing rooftop solar systems, and verifying home energy savings investments.
Compare the features of advanced meters and existing analog and digital meters.
To opt out of an advanced meter, you must be the electric account holder. You can opt out online, opt out by mail or call our Customer Service Center.
Advanced meters use radio frequency (RF) to communicate across the electric grid. RF is electromagnetic energy that includes frequencies used for everyday communications such as radio and TV broadcasting, cell phones and wi-fi routers.
Advanced meters are an important part of our Grid Modernization Strategy. When installed and properly maintained, wireless advanced meters result in much smaller levels of RF exposure – the total average transmission time is less than one second in a 24-hour period – than many existing common household electronic devices, particularly cell phones and microwave ovens.
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Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) provides numerous benefits to water utilities. AMI improves a utility''s ability to collect frequent and accurate water usage data to improve billing, leak detection, and water resource management.
The types of water meters used by utilities have evolved over time. Older technology required that utilities send meter readers to individual sites (such as homes) to physically read meters. As the technology changed, meters that allowed for automated meter reading (AMR) became more prevalent. This provided some savings to utilities as meter readers could collect data by, for example, simply driving their truck down a street and remotely getting data from meters as they passed by. This made it possible for utilities to reduce the staff time needed to read all meters and bill more frequently.
As water utilities look to replace older water meters, another option has emerged. AMI meters provide for remote collection of water use data - in real time. This supports more frequent billing, but more importantly also allows a utility to quickly identify excessive water use that could be the result of leaks.
The emergence of AMI provides utilities with a real opportunity, but it can also be a challenge to determine how to manage the data collected and how to make that data useful to the utility customers. An AWWA water conservation committee conducted a study on AMI implementation and produced a useful guide for utilities on how they could use their AMI portals to increase customer engagement for water conservation .
Increasing consumer benefits & engagement in AMI-based conservation programs: Guidebook for Practitioners(2022, 25pp, PDF)
AMI can benefit commercial and institutional facilities too! AMI offers frequent (e.g., hourly) water usage data that can be monitored to understand consumption patterns, identify leaks before the bill comes, and improve overall facility water management. Many utilities offer customer portals that allow easy access to water use data.
WaterSense developed a guide to help commercial and institutional facility managers and business owners understand the benefits of AMI. The guide provides helpful tips on how to access, understand, and optimize the use of water consumption data to improve water management. The guide also includes case studies of businesses that have successfully used AMI data to reduce water consumption and operating costs.
We upgraded nearly 6 million residential and most business natural gas meters by adding an Advanced Meter communications device.
The Advanced Meter technology upgrade is a natural step in our evolution of service and reflects our commitment to delivering safe and reliable natural gas.California''s energy policy supports the development and implementation of cost-effective Advanced Metering systems, which can provide customers with information and tools to make more informed decisions about gas use, leading to increased conservation efforts and reduced greenhouse gas emissions.An Advanced Meter is a communications device that automatically and securely transmits gas meter data to our service and billing center, eliminating the need for manual meter reading and enabling us to provide you with more frequent and detailed gas usage information.
By upgrading natural gas meters with Advanced Meter technology, we have empowered customers to save energy and money, and reduce the impact on the environment.
Our Advanced Meter modules and the associated network communications system operate in the 450 to 470 megahertz (MHz) bands and 800/1900 cellular frequency, respectively. The technology products we use for our Advanced Meter project comply with U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) guidelines for human exposure to RF energy (FCC OET bulletin 65).
We continually monitor regulatory and scientific developments related to human exposure to RF energy. We rely upon the expert findings within science related to RF exposures and potential health effects through the following organizations and agencies:
According to these groups, no adverse short- or long-term health effects have been shown to occur from the radio frequency signals produced by Advanced Meters or other such wireless networks.
There are three key factors that contribute to RF exposure:
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