Summary

The Edit Meter Readings window is used to edit specific unbilled meter readings by meter type and route. The Edit Meter Readings window is generally used to modify specific meter readings in a route after they have been generated or entered using the Input New Meter Readings window (UB> Meter Management> Input). The Edit Meter Readings window can be used to modify the read date, meter reading, read period and read year, or calculate an estimate on a single meter reading in a meter route. If you would like to generate an estimated meter reading on all of the meters in a route, use the Input New Meter Readings window (UB> Meter Management> Input).

Meter readings can also be modified from the Device Maintenance window (UB> Maintenance> Device), but there you will only be able to modify the meter readings for one device at a time.

Step by Step

1     Open the Edit Meter Readings window (UB> Meter Management> Edit).

2     Filter the displayed meter readings.

• Select a Meter Type and Route in the Parameters section and click the Refresh icon to display the unbilled meter readings in the window. The meter readings will populate in the window.
• The Update Read Date field is used to set a common read date for all of the unbilled meter readings displayed in the data grid. This functionality is covered in the next bullet item.

3     Edit the meter readings.

• Modify the values in the Read Date, Reading, Read Period, Read Year and/or Estimated Read field of any of the meter readings in the window.
• Highlight a meter reading and click the Modify icon to open the Account Master Maintenance window of the customer account attached to the selected meter.
• Highlight a reading and click the Delete icon to delete the selected meter reading.
• Highlight a meter reading and select an estimate option from the Process icon drop-down menu to generate an estimated meter reading on the selected meter.
  • Select Use Prior Year if you would like to use the consumption of the same period in the previous year as the estimate of the current reading. If the meter does not have a reading in the same period in the last year, the reading will default to the prior reading on the meter.
  • Select Use Prior Period if you would like to estimate the new meter reading based on the consumption during the last meter read period (consumption will be estimated based on meter read period, not meter read date). This method will add the consumption during the previous meter read period to the last meter reading to calculate the new meter reading and consumption. For example, if the previous period consumption and meter reading was 1000 and 12,000, the estimated reading will be 13,000 with consumption of 1000 units.
    • If there are multiple readings during the previous meter read period, those meter readings will be added together to determine the estimated amount.
    • If a meter was not read during the previous period, the meter reading will default to the last reading that was read on the meter, and the consumption will default to zero. If there is not a meter reading during the previous meter read period, an Expand button will display next to the meter reading.
    • If you would like to generate the estimate based on the last read period rather than the meter read of the last period, select Last Period Read in the Estimate Method drop-down menu.
  • Select Last Period Read if you would like to estimate the consumption based on the last billed meter reading. This varies from the User Prior Period selection because this option will use any previous billed meter reading, not just the meter reading of the previous period.
    • For example, if you are in billing period 06 and a meter was not read in period 05, the consumption will be calculated based on the consumption billed during period 04. If the meter had 500 units of billed consumption in period 04, the consumption in period 06 will be estimated at 500 and the meter reading will be 500 units plus the previous reading on the meter.
  • Select Winter Average if you would like to use the last calculated and committed winter average on a meter to estimate the consumption. If no winter average is found on the meter or the calculated winter average has not been committed, the reading will default to the prior reading on the account.
    • If there are multiple winter averages on the customer account, the consumption will calculated based on the winter average with the most recent winter average effective date (UB> Maintenance> Account> Winter Averages tab> Effective Date field). This applies even if the winter average effective date is in the future. This means winter averages that have still not reached their effective dates will be used to calculate the consumption.
  • Select Multiply EDU’s if you would like to calculate the consumption based on the meter EDU’s attached to the meters in the route. When this option is selected, a field titled EDU Multiplier will become visible.
    • A meter EDU is entered on a device using the Device Maintenance window (UB> Maintenance> Device> Connections tab> EDU column).
    • The Multiply EDU option will multiply the value in the EDU Multiplier field by the value in the EDU field on the meter to calculate the consumption on the meter. For example, if you enter 100 in the EDU Multiplier field and the meter has an EDU of 4, the consumption will be calculated at 400 units.
• Click the Recalculate icon after selecting an estimate method to recalculate the consumption on the meter.
• Click the Set Meter Read Date icon to update the Read Date column for all of the meter readings in the data grid below. The new read date will be set to the date specified in the Update Read Date field above. Only unbilled read dates can be updated.
• The Consumption, Comparison, and Variance columns will reflect the Comparison Method settings specified on UB> Utilities> Setup> Device tab.
• Click the Save icon when complete to save the changes to the meter reading.