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Title: Integrating Metering, Billing, Security And Control Processes
Author: Robert Findley
Source: American Gas Association 2004
Year Published: 2004
Abstract: Measurement and process control equipment has been on a progressive trend over the past decade. Due to continuous improvements, products have developed from pneumatic to electronic processes, reduced in physical size and increased in overall functionality. While the core AGA flow/energy equations have not altered, the electronic equipment calculating these equations has undergone dynamic changes. These changes will dramatically affect the gas industry, bringing new ideas, concepts and realities. This paper has been written to provide the reader with information on recent advancements in measurement and control equipment and what they may offer in the future. Consider the following application: A measurement, billing and control solution that had the ability to integrate seamlessly into the overall company business model. An additional feature (virtual requirement) is the ability to include security/tamperproof methodologies to the measurement infrastructure in unique ways. In the past, combining ruggedness and reliability (engineering and measurement technicians) with integral database, nominations and real time billing information (Marketing, IT/Management (a.k.a. Bean counters) and the consumer had been accomplished with various pieces of hardware and software. The time has come that these functions meld together for a comprehensive one-piece solution.

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