Today's Data is Tomorrow's Service

Fortnightly Magazine - December 1995
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Better use of existing data is the key to enhanced revenue.

Utility automation seeks to reduce operational costs and deliver new value-added services.

The first goal is straightforward and quantifiable. For example, when Public Service Co. of Colorado (PSCo) recently announced plans to expand its automatic meter-reading (AMR) system to cover a total of more than 1.3 million electric and gas meters, the reasons were obvious: The initial phase of PSCo's AMR installation had already exceeded the utility's expectations in the areas of cost containment, service improvement, and positioning for the future.

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The second goal of utility automation (em new value-added services (em is more challenging and far less straightforward. We all assume that utilities will someday provide new information-based services on the "Information Superhighway." But what form will those services take? Will utilities provide telephone or cable TV services?

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