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Wayne Bostock, Regional Operations
Manager at City Energy Network said:
“SMARTester is a really useful bit of
kit for all our engineers. It’s easy to
use and gives them complete piece
of mind that their work and pressure
tests have been carried out correctly
and accurately. It also offers clear
traceability to our engineers, our
company, and EDF.” Cost Saving
pressure, the differential measurement EDF is always looking for ways to reduce
Definitive Test Evidence in pressure readings from initial costs for the bill payer alongside safe
SMARTester captures a vast level of tightness to final tightness testing. This working practices. By introducing a highly
information, which Tom Heard, Quality is an essential piece of information accurate pressure tester across all their
Assurance at EDF, was particularly to the Quality Assurance and Gas engineers and contractors, this results
impressed with. The key piece of Technical teams as these pressure in fewer incidents and therefore less
information it delivers is whether a test changes would indicate if any escape investigations. In many cases, the engineer
has passed or failed but other variables may have been created and it can be in question is not able to continue to
such as the time of the test results and rectified straight away. work until the investigation is resolved.
the time between test results all help Tom Heard said: “SMARTester has Evidence gathered using the SMARTester
the Quality Assurance team to gather a been worth its wait in gold with our can provide proof of a competent
better understanding of each individual contractors. It not only offers them installation instantly, resolving incidents
job. SMARTester also produces a and their engineers protection as it in a matter of minutes, not weeks.
graph of test results showing the delta proves a gas tight operation, but it also Following the government’s pledge in
allows us to keep an eye on the test 2017 and subsequent extension, energy
results coming in. If we can identify suppliers are required, by their licence,
any potential issues that need resolving to take all reasonable steps to roll out
straight away, we can deliver the very smart meters to all their domestic and
best in customer service.” small business customers by the end
of 2024. EDF has already installed over
one million smart meters and each
SMARTester is configured so that week is upgrading thousands more
no matter which type of meter is meters to smart. With three million
residential and SME customers, EDF is
being tested it can respond with on track to upgrade all of its customers
the right pressure parameters. to smart.
This makes it simple for the The Future of SMARTester
engineer who just has to select SMARTester is capable of measuring
from the menu the model of meter the pressure of any type of gas, making
they are working on. it the ideal solution for all types of
A test in progress using SMARTester and the app future gases.

SMARTester dashboard showing evidence of tests carried out

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