Frustrated at paying high utility bills? Worry on how to reduce your household energy carbon footprint?
The easiest and most immediate solution is taking regular readings of your utility meters to track consumption and monitor the energy efficiency of electrical appliances. By modifying consumption habits and using green appliances, you can reduce usage and save money at the same time.
SmartMeter helps you track your electricity, gas and water meter readings. It support single rate tariff for electricity and gas meters; and dual rate tariff for water meters.
Upon recording a reading, SmartMeter calculates the usage and charges to show the current and projected month billing. This is essential for your monthly budget forecast and alerts you of any fluctuation in energy consumption.
Regular meter reading with SmartMeter can save you between 5-15% on your monthly bills.
FEATURES
Track household utility such as electricity, gas and water meters through a simple and intuitive interface that allows quick input of tariffs and readings. New feature allows upload of tariffs, readings, past charges and billings as a spreadsheet to your goggle docs account.
Readings are time-stamped and only it’s reading value can be edited.
Even though SmartMeter allows recording, editing and deletion of tariffs and readings, past months charges and billings will NOT be updated to reflect the changes.
Deleting is allow when number of tariffs and readings EXCEEDS the minimum to compute usage, charges and billing.
Allows unlimited recordings of tariff; although only current effective tariffs are used to compute charges and billing.
Allows unlimited recordings of reading; although the current two readings are used to compute usage, charges and billing.
Checks for duplicate tariffs and validates data entry for readings and tariffs.
Show number of past months bills; and number of recorded tariffs and readings.
UPDATES PLANNED
Graphs to show current, projected and past months usage, charges and billings. Malay, Mandarin and Tamil localization.
MEDIA
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SETUP
SmartMeter has default tariffs and demo readings upon downloaded from iTunes.
The default tariffs are meant for Singapore. For other regions, you need to replace them with the latest tariffs from your utility provider. The demo readings must be deleted and replaced with new electricity, gas and water readings.
HOW IT WORKS
The above timeline shows how SmartMeter uses tariff rates and readings to compute consumption and billing.
T1, T2 and T3 are tariff rates. These rates are from your utilities provider and to be added to SmartMeter. These rates may increased or decreased over time. The current effective tariff is T3.
R1, R2, R3 and R4 are readings recorded. The reading value increases over time. Consumption between R4 and R3 is the difference between the two readings. The latest two readings R3 and R4 are used to compute consumption and billing.
D1 is start of month. D2 is current. D3 is end of the month.
Readings R3 and R4 and Tariff Rate T3 are used to compute the consumption and billing for:
D1 – D2, start of month to current
D1 – D3, start of month to end of month
MANAGE BILLING
Shows the current, projected month and the list of past total charges of the month. For the selected month, it displays the consumption units, effective tariff and chargeable amount for each service such as Electricity, Gas or Water.
All fees and taxes are not included in computing the charges.
The Bills badge show the number of past month billings.
MANAGE EXPORT
This new feature in SmartMeter 1.1 allows users to export their meter readings as a spreadsheet to their goggle docs account. From this spreadsheet, you can submit the readings to confirm or validate meter readings by your utility provider.
Attached is an example of the SmartMeter spreadsheet.
For SP Services in Singapore, users can submit their readings using their account via this link.
Sign up for a Goggle Docs account if you have not done so.
Login using your account email and password by clicking on the Set button.
Click on the Upload button to export the data as a spreadsheet to your goggle doc account.
MANAGE READING
You can toggle the segmented buttons to view the desired type of readings. The latest two readings are used to compute current usage and chargeable. The Reading badge show the number of readings recorded.
Record reading: Click on the + button and follow 1-2-3 to record a new reading. Each reading is time-stamped when saved.
Edit reading: Follow similar workflow as Record Reading to update an existing reading.
Delete reading: Click on the Edit button to delete a reading. You are not allow to delete when there are only 2 readings available.
MANAGE SERVICE
Shows the projected month and start month to current service statistics like usage, effective tariff used, usage per day and usage per hour. It also display the last two readings used to compute usage and charges for the selected service.
You can toggle the segmented buttons to view the desired service statistics.
MANAGE TARIFF
You can toggle the segmented buttons to view the desired type of tariffs. The latest tariff is used to compute current and monthly chargeable. The Tariff badge show the number of tariffs
Edit tariff wef: Follow 1-2-3 to change the wef date.
Edit tariff rate: Follow 1-4-5 to change the tariff rate.
Delete tariff: Click on the Edit button to delete a tariff. You are not allow to delete when there is only one tariff available.
Record tariff: Click on the + button and follow similar work flow as Edit Tariff to record a new tariff.
An increasing block rate water tariff structure is implemented in Singapore to encourage water conservation and reduce water consumption. The higher tariff is applied when usage exceeds the tariff consumption block.
For areas using one tariff rate for water, input same tariff for within and above consumption block.
Edit tariff wef: Follow 1-2-3 to change the wef date.
Edit consumption block: Follow 1-4-5 to change the consumption block.
Edit within consumption block rate: Follow 1-6-7 to change the rate.
Edit above consumption block rate: Follow 1-8-9 to change the rate
Delete tariff: Click on the Edit button to delete a tariff. You are not allow to delete when there is only one tariff available.
Record tariff: Click on the + button and follow similar workflow as Edit Tariff to record a new tariff.
