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EDF boosts its smart meter safety

and technology with SMARTester

EDF engineer using SMARTester app

EDF, one of the largest suppliers of electricity and gas to domestic In accordance with IGEM/UP/1B, a
users and small businesses in the UK, is leading the way in smart series of pressure tests are required
meter safety with the adoption of SMARTester, a wireless pressure at critical stages of the smart meter
installation. One of the main benefits of
testing system that gives reassurance of precise readings, a SMARTester is the ability of the device,
searchable database and traceability at your fingertips combined with the app, to lead the
engineer through these various tests,
By using SMARTester, EDF’s smart upgrading thousands more meters to recording and saving each one and
meter installers are guided through smart. With three million residential determining the installation as a pass or
industry specific tests so that they can and SME customers, EDF is on track to fail result.
be assured of a gas tight operation, upgrade all of its customers to smart.
compliance, and peace of mind for This instant evidence gives EDF and
themselves and their customers. Improving Safety the installing engineer reassurance
Following the government’s pledge in With each smart meter installation,
2017 and subsequent extension, energy EDF’s number one priority is safety for that the new meter has been fitted
suppliers are required, by their licence, both customer, the installing engineer compliantly and safely
to take all reasonable steps to roll out and the wider general public. This is
smart meters to all their domestic and particularly pertinent as we emerge This reassurance of accuracy and
small business customers by the end of from lockdown. The work carried out traceability is what first interested EDF
2024. EDF has already installed over one must be to industry standards and in the SMARTester system. Traditionally,
million smart meters and each week is comply with IGEM technical standards. more conventional stand-alone gauges
have been used and paper evidence
recorded, but these can be subject to
TM
SMARTester human error and do not offer the same
guarantee of 100 per cent accuracy and
account traceability as the SMARTester.

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