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Energy Metering Solutions
We deliver metering as a service, not a parts list: scoping the points that matter, shipping panels that are already commissioned, getting them installed without shutting the building down, integrating the data, and then running the monitoring for you.
A metering project touches design, procurement, electrical and mechanical trades, controls, and whoever ends up reading the reports. When those are six separate vendors, the gaps between them are where projects lose time and credibility — meters that arrive unconfigured, points that never make it onto the BMS, data nobody trusts enough to bill from.
The six stages below are how we run the work end to end. Each one links through to the deeper page if you want the detail.
Stage 1
Scope and specification
Meter selection, point count, and the code requirements the project has to satisfy.
Most metering projects go wrong before anything is purchased: too many points in places nobody will act on, too few on the loads that actually drive the bill, and a meter class that can't be used for the purpose it was bought for. We start by working out what each measurement is for — billing, code compliance, savings verification, or process control — because that decides accuracy class, meter type, and where the point belongs.
The output is a point list with meter models, CT sizing, mounting locations, and the communications path, in a form your electrical contractor and AHJ can both work from.
- Point list built from loads and outcomes, not panel schedules
- Accuracy class matched to billing, code, or diagnostic use
- CT and flow-element sizing checked against real service conditions
Stage 2
Hardware
Pre-configured panels and meters, wired, addressed, and commissioned before they ship.
We supply meters as a working assembly rather than a box of parts. Panels arrive wired, fused, addressed, and bench-tested, with the Modbus map, CT ratios, and pulse scaling already set and documented. That moves the fiddly, error-prone work out of a mechanical room and into a shop.
The practical effect is fewer field hours, fewer polarity and phasing mistakes, and a shorter path from energisation to trustworthy data.
- Pre-wired NEMA-rated enclosures with disconnects and fusing
- Meters addressed, scaled, and bench-tested before shipping
- As-built wiring and register documentation supplied with the panel
Stage 3
Deployment
Retrofit without shutdown, with self-powered and wireless options where cabling is impractical.
Occupied buildings rarely tolerate an outage for metering. Split-core CTs, clamp-on ultrasonic flow meters, and insertion meters with hot-tap options let most of a retrofit go in live. Where a shutdown is genuinely unavoidable, we scope it tightly so it happens once.
Where conduit is the expensive part — remote pads, distant plant rooms, leased spaces you can't core-drill — self-powered meters and wireless backhaul usually cost less than the trenching they replace.
- Split-core and clamp-on hardware for live retrofits
- Solar-powered and battery-backed remote panels
- LoRaWAN and cellular backhaul where conduit is impractical
Stage 4
Integration
Modbus, BACnet, LoRaWAN and cellular — into your BMS or the Emergent platform.
A meter that isn't reporting into something is a display on a wall. We bring points onto whichever transport suits the site — Modbus RTU or TCP, BACnet MS/TP or IP, LoRaWAN, or cellular — and hand them to your building automation system, your historian, or our platform.
Register maps, point naming, and scaling are documented so the controls contractor isn't reverse-engineering the system a year later, and so a meter swap doesn't break the graphics.
- Modbus RTU/TCP and BACnet MS/TP/IP into existing BMS graphics
- Gateways, pulse counters, and protocol converters supplied and configured
- Documented register maps and consistent point-naming conventions
Stage 5
Managed intelligence
Dashboards, alerting, anomaly detection, tenant billing, and a dedicated analyst.
Data that nobody reads saves nothing. Managed intelligence turns the meter stream into a monitored service: dashboards for the people who run the building, alerts when consumption departs from its own baseline, and anomaly detection that catches stuck valves, failed schedules, and overnight loads that shouldn't exist.
It also covers the recurring work — tenant billing exports, allocation, monthly reporting — with an analyst who knows the site rather than a ticket queue.
- Baseline-aware alerting and anomaly detection, not fixed thresholds
- Tenant billing and cost allocation exports
- Named analyst support with periodic review of findings
Stage 6
Compliance and documentation
IECC, ASHRAE 90.1, building performance standards, LL97, and ESG reporting.
Energy codes increasingly specify metering directly: IECC and ASHRAE 90.1 set out which loads must be separately measured and recorded, and building performance standards such as NYC Local Law 97 make measured consumption the basis of penalties. Getting the point list wrong at design time is expensive to correct after occupancy.
We map the requirement to the point list, keep the commissioning records that demonstrate it, and produce the exports that reporting frameworks ask for.
- Point lists mapped to IECC and ASHRAE 90.1 metering clauses
- BPS and LL97 reporting from measured data
- Commissioning records and as-builts retained for audit
Want this scoped for your building?
Send the point count, utilities, and site details and we'll come back with a scoped approach and pricing across hardware, deployment, and monitoring.
Ready to put energy data to work?
Order sensors, bridges, and PowerRadar subscriptions from our store — or talk to a CEM-certified engineer about your project.