Today's Energy Theft Detection Models Help Protect Revenues While Enhancing Neighborhood Safety

摘要

AMR and AMI systems provide tamper flags that identify energy theft when the tampering occurs at the meter, and while they can alert the utility to a theft case, they also can trigger far too many false alarms. According to a Chartwell research report, "AMR is not a perfect system for detecting theft and many customers have discovered this, coming up with clever ways to bypass or tamper with the meter without triggering a tamper flag.