Field work is where most metering programmes either deliver or quietly fall apart. The same crew that scoped your site signs off the commissioning, drafts the single-line diagram, and is on the WhatsApp group when a tenant queries the install three months later.
The infrastructure checklist we run on every site
When we walk a site, the audit answers the same questions every time:
- Are the meters NRCS-approved billing-grade (Class 0.5)?
- Are they smart-read only, no manual reads in the loop?
- Do they send event data (tampering, outages, reverse-reading)?
- What’s the life expectancy on the installed base? Anything past 10 years gets flagged.
- Is the meter fleet exposed to back-charging because of accuracy drift?
- Are there meter faults that should already be alerting? Why aren’t they?
- Does the landlord own the data, or is it held hostage by a vendor?
The audit becomes the document the rollout is measured against. No item ships forward without a closed audit point.
Single-line diagrams: a foundation, not a deliverable
Once smart meters are in, our technical leads prepare a Single Line Diagram per site, a verified layout of how energy flows across the property, distribution-board by distribution-board.
The SLD is what makes month-end balancing possible. Without it, the Performance Report can’t reconcile what came in at the bulk meter against what was consumed at the tenants, and under-recoveries hide in the gap. With it, every kWh has somewhere to go.
What's included
- Site investigations and pre-installation audits
- Site audit reports with infrastructure check-list and risk register
- Electricity and water meter installations
- Meter commissioning and acceptance testing
- Comms-module retrofits onto existing meters
- Single-line diagram (SLD) drafting after installation
- Disconnections and reconnections (on-site and remote)
- Capacity-aware crew scheduling for high-volume rollouts