Utility Metering Solutions Founded in 2006, specialists in metering long before
Strategic metering - let's get it right.
Metering expertise before, during and after implementation to accurately capture your organisations energy footprint
Our BREADTH of knowledge, Your TRUST in performance data.
Our curated range of complimenting products and services can be tailored to meet your present, interim and future energy asset management requirements - optimised to any budget.
A future of environmentally conscious UK commerce and industry needs to be built on a bedrock of trustworthy data, available at the point of need.
That requires flawless installations, repeatable testing and verification procedures, thoughtfully planned asset management, and regular, dependable data access.
This is where UMS can help you and your business reach sustainability, cost-cutting and performance goals.
But why invest in meters?
Meters themselves don't yield instant financial returns. But the data, performance intelligence, access to markets, subsidy and best practice compliance they offer, do.
We have found, through two decades of servicing faults, incomplete commissioning, and mis-procurement, that establishing a sound basis for quantifying your business impact, is invaluable. This extends beyond meter devices, to the ancillary and comms equipment involved in the data delivery chain
- a true system-wide solution is required.
Running an organisation with substantial land, building and plant assets without a robust and coherent metering strategy, is like planning a journey with no mileage, route, fuel gage or speedometer. It is this data that informs and shines light upon areas of waste, proportionality of value, and overall system losses that may be not immediately clear.
Through the accurate installation of meters, their commissioning, proper harmonisation with comms infrastructure and integration with your existing business systems, this vital information can be available and trusted to drive your primary systems and processes forward to optimum performance - not bad for a second order investment.
A breadth of expertise
to span any project or scheme;
from concept through to living maintenance
Meter Scheme Design
We put our focus on our customers - from budgetary, project, organisational and data output perspectives. Taking a broad and holistic view, we want you to find the product or service that best suits your need and integrates with existing infrastructure, offering comprehensive consulting services to help you make an informed decision.
Implementation and Commissioning
Our aim is to ensure delivery of fully functioning meter solutions, through to delivered data outputs, above and beyond equipment purchase. That’s why we provide professional advice before you order, pre-commisson devices to smooth integration on site, and continue to provide reliable ongoing support.
Verification and Fault-finding
With the devil in the detail across both simple and complex metering schemes, we are well placed to identify, rectify, and provide impartial advice on existing, often unseen faults and inaccuracies that undermine your system. This is enhanced by a range of diagnostic techniques and software, as well as the simple application of experience, instinct and relentless investigation.
Turnkey services through to data delivery;
with reports that inform and support that lasts
The completeness and seamless nature of integration between services is demonstrated by the number of our clients electing to build and retain both asset maintenance and data service arrangements, beyond initial procurement and installation phases.
Prior planning
Listening to clients through structured, documented project development stages allows us to deploy our understanding of available technology, leverage supplier relationships and frame planning around project priorities, safety and compliance.
On-site Execution
Whether delivering the majority of services ourselves, or with assistance from competent subcontractors and client teams, our experience of fault-finding and integration with other subsystems and utilities position us towards effective, right first time delivery on-the-day.
We acknowledge time on site as a value-bearing, essential part of delivery, and as such optimise this budgeted opportunity through streamlined planning and pre-commissioning, also seeking to carry out further tasks in any remaining time available.
Management and Data
Our team handle both operations and data delivery simultaneously, ensuring that solutions match our own technical expectations, imperfections proactively rooted out and corrected, and data presentations through template and bespoke reporting structures stretch the capabilities of both hardware and software available.
Verification and Fault-finding procedures as standard - from kWh 001 onward.
We find the devil lies in the detail of commissioning interfaces, commonly between communications and parallel configured equipment, servers and systems. By understanding and inputting this key information to facilitate integration, and testing shortly thereafter, data outputs are validated from installation throughout project life.
Stay on the pulse of metering...
WattMatters - A UMS Blog, and exercise in Thought Leadership
Our experience, client and contractor interactions have generated a number of clear opinions, courses towards best practice, and instincts towards improving our industry in line with, and sometimes opposing, government policy and legislation.
Engage with our latest views for a window inside the issues that may stand to affect your metering network. We'd be happy to talk.