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gas usage. BUY CREDIT message is displayed on the meter screen. 10. Subscriber is warned by display message before meter battery ends. If the subscriber do not take necessary actions and battery ends, meter store all information to the memory. By this way meter and consumption information is protected. 11. Electronic smart card becomes out of use if it is tried to be used for another meter. 12. If the subscriber loose his/her card, authority provides a new card and cancels the previous one. 13. If someone find the card, as it is no more registered to the system, it can not be used again.
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14. Information provided by the meter: Amount of consumption Remaining credit Total consumption in certain time frame Latest meter energy cutoff time Latest unauthorized intervention date Latest credit loading date Real date and time information Meter type and serial number Battery status Authority may reach any information anytime 15. Authority may apply different tariffs at different zones. Authorities tariff changes are transfered to all sales point instantly and tariff informations are updated. 16. Subscribers have the fixed price waranty in the prepayment system. Subscribers are not effected by price increases till the previously purchased credits end. 17. Meter messages are displayed on the LCD. Credit Low, Buy Credit, Control, Service, Penalty, Battery, Battery Low, Battery Off, Cancelled, Wrong, Error etc. 18. Smart card system provides below benefits to the authorities: Eliminates first and last reading operations Eliminates sealing/opening and meter uninstalling/installing operations because of unpaid bills Eliminates billing and bill distribution operations Eliminates bill and payment follow-up operations System has high security level Elektromed prepayment electronic water meters understand the leakages on the network and inform the authority via smart card. General Benefits: 1- %85 savings on personnel costs. 2- %50 saving on stationery costs. 3- %90 saving on transportaion costs. 4- %25 financial gain by prepayment system. 5- Unpaid bills problem is solved 6- All consumptions may be followed by credit sales point terminals Besides these benefits, prepayment meter system amortize investment costs in short time. Modern, economical and secure system is set.
A - ELECTRONIC METER
Electronic meters are energy and water consumption metering devices consist of semi-conductor components. In the system subscriber pay before consumption. Purchased credit is transfered to the meter via IC smart card. When credit finishes, meter close itself and stop subscribers consumption. ELECTRONIC CONTROL UNIT The unit that analyse all consumption and status information, controls LCD, closing unit and card reader unit. LCD SCREEN The unit that analyse all consumption and status information, controls LCD, closing unit and card reader unit. CARD READER The interface that smart card is inserted to and provide communication between meter and smart card. Credit is easily loaded to the meter when the smart card is inserted to the card reader unit. After installing of credit, there is no need to leave smart card on the meter. Subscriber should remove the smart card from the meter. CUT OFF UNIT Meter has a cut off unit for usage control. Cut off unit is a relay in electricity meter, valve in heat, gas and water meters. When credit finishes or unauthorized intervention take place, cut off unit is activated, consumption is stopped automatically. Occupancy rate of battery is reported to the subscriber by the LCD. Occupancy rate of the battery is also reported to the authority by the smart card. This way, ran out batteries are followed up and changed by the service. When battery runs out,consumption information is saved to the non volatile memory. Elektromed prepayment water and gas meters shutdown itself and stop consumption when the battery runs out. Elektromed prepayment electricity meter use network energy when the battery runs out. Meters have two security switches. These switches are under main body cover and battery cover. If any of these covers are opened by unauthorized personnel, meter record these intervention details (date, time, type etc.) in to the memory and active cutoff unit to close itself and stop energy and water consumption. In this case, meter only opens by the auhority service.
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There are two locations in meter memory for credit information: Main Credit and Backup Credit. Backup credit system is developed for subscribers to be able continue using energy and water in case of credit finishing out of office hours and weekends where they can not buy new credit. Backup credit is defined by the authorities according to the longest holiday time. When subscribers purchase credit, purschased credit is installed to subscribers smart card. This credit is transfered to the meter when the smart card is inserted to the meter. Transfered credit is first loaded to the backup credit location in the memory, then remaining credit is loaded as main credit. Meter starts to use backup credit after main credit ends. When the main credit ends, meter close valve/relay and stop consumption. In order to use the backup credit subscriber have insert the smart card to the meter. Meter will open itself for consumption. This way subscriber is warned and reminded to buy new credit. When the backup credit ends before the subscriber loads new credit, meter will close valve/relay and stop energy and water consumption. Subscriber may purchase and load new credit before the credit ends. New loaded credit will be added to the remaining credit in the meter. Every subscriber have their own smart card. One subscriber can not use other subscribers smart card. Subscribers meter does not accept other subscribers smart card. Subscribers meter and smart card is one to one matched. Every smart card has an authority defined unique ID number. Meter checks for this ID number in each process and compares with the matching of the meter number. Subscribers apply to the authority when they loose their smart card and get a new smart card whose ID is matched with their meter. Lost smart card is canceled by the authority. Even if the subscriber find the lost card, it can not be used. If subscribers want to return smart card and the purchased credit for any reason, they apply to the authority. Authority transfer the loaded credit in the meter by using RETURN CARD process and receive back the credit at the sales point. Returned credit value is paid back to the subscriber. After this process no credit is left at the meter. All the electronic units of the meter are isolated from mechanical units. Meters batteries are also isolated from the mechanical units. Meters energy source is 3.6V Lithium battery. Lithium battery life is around 10 years. Subscriber can not change the battery. They have to call the service. There is security switch under the meters battery cover. When the cover is open, meter closes itself. PENALTY message is displayed on the screen. When the service personnel remove the battery from the meter, data in the meters memory is protected. No data loss takes place. All the information in the memory is safe during the battery cover. PENALTY message continues till battery cover is closed. This message requires authority intervention to the meter. Subscriber understands the necessity of battery change from the BATTERY LOW message on the screen. If the battery change operation is not done one time, battery runs out and BATTERY FINISHED message is displayed on the screen. Energy and water consumptions is stoped.
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Meter close itself if meters terminal, battery or body covers open. Energy and water consumption is stoped and PENALTY message is displayed. When meter goes into penalty mode it close itself automatically. In water and gas meters electromechanical valve and in electricity meters relay is activated. In order to open meter authority must intervene with AUTHORITY CARD. Authority may cancel subscriptions. If any subscription is canceled for any reason, credit in the meter is returned. This operation is shown by CANCELED message on the screen. If the meters are connected to the authority via AMR (Automatic Meter Reading) systems, authorities have the ability to reach credit sales, reporting, statistical information and works, subscriber controls and meter status information.
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SERVICE: Implies a problem about the valve. Valve could not finish operation on the required time. Subscriber should call the service. PENALTY: Unauthorized intervention took place. It can be cleared by Authority card prepared for that subscriber. BATTERY LOW: Battery voltage is low. Subscriber should call service. BATTERY END: Battery is out of order. Subscriber should call service.
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CANCEL: Meter is canceled by the authority temporarily. Credit and consumption information is stored. It can be solved by authority card prepared for that subscriber by the authority service. CREDIT LOW: Credit amount is below a predefined critical limit. BUY CREDIT: Credit finished. Cutoff unit(valve/relay) is activated. Subscriber should buy credit. ERROR: Smart card read by the meter do not match. Cards error coefficient is decreased by 1. If this error happens 4 times card is blocked and can not be used again.
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There is a problem about the cutoff unit. It does not operate. Subscriber should call the service.
Meter Closed
No credit on the meter. Till new credit loading, cutoff unit will not allow energy and water transmission.
1) AUTHORITY CARDS
A) CANCEL CARD : Used when authority decide to close a meter for any reason. In this case subscriber can not use energy or water. In order to activate meter, authority must use Open Card. B) OPEN CARD: On the cases that meter is closed with Penalty, Service messages, this card is used to activate the meter. After that subscriber may use energy and water. C) RETURN CARD: If the subscriber request the purchased credit amount on the smart card or meter back , this card is used. D) CONTROL CARD: Used by authorities to control all units of the meter periodically. Control card, record all information of meter ( battery level, valve/relay problems etc.) and these information is send to the service management.
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2) SUBSCRIBER CARDS
SUBSCRIBER CARD: The card used by the subscriber to purchace credit and load to their meters. Meter number and smart card numbers are matched. Main and backup credit information is transfered by smart card. Smart Cards are fully compatible with ISO 7816-3 standard security protocols.
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