All it takes to handle billions of reads is one simple answer.

It's amazing how quickly things can escalate. The move in complex billing is away from single monthly reads and towards multiple interval reads. It sounds easy until you apply a bit of math. Then you discover one million monthly reads multiplies into 30-million to 3-billion reads.

That's mega amounts of data with massive opportunities for mistakes. Implementing the Ecologic Meter Data Management System (MDMS) helps to avoid those mistakes.

The Ecologic MDMS is built to accommodate multiple reads. In fact, it accurately handles more endpoints and meter reads each month than any other MDMS in North America.

The Ecologic MDMS uses validation, estimation and editing (VEE) to ensure all reads are accurate and complete providing you with a full and proven data set from which you can make billing or operational decisions.

Even if you wanted to, there is no way a utility could make the move from monthly to interval reads without an MDMS. There's just no way to manually do the work, let alone ensure its accuracy. And attempting to apply VEE is just, well, impossible.

That's what makes MDMS not just a better way of handling meter reads, but virtually mandatory when looking to the future of billing cycles. It does the work that can't be accomplished any other way.