Keeping the lights on: Technology speeds service restoration


Some advanced metering systems offer up "last-gasp" messages, where the meters, which are connected to the utility via some sort of communications network, send in their own outage reports. Some are configured in such a way that utility engineers can "ping" the meter to see if it's energized. Whatever your system does, using advanced metering to correct outages faster will impact customer satisfaction.

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