Panasonic Gas Meter service
Service to Utilities
Panasonic offers not only devices for smart gas meters, but also services. We propose "Solution Service" to gas utilities.
Our available solutions:
- Advanced Gas IoT Service
- AMR (Automatic Meter Reading) Service
- NB-IoT Connectivity Service
Advanced Gas IoT Service
Panasonic provides the web-based system services as a one-stop solution, with reliable meter devices (valve, pressure sensor, seismoscope).
Our Advanced Gas IoT Service helps you to analyze and utilize the log data based on smart metering information.
1.Pipeline and Meter Pressure Monitoring
Advantages
- Gas pipe abnormality estimation
- Collecting gas supply pressure status at different time and estimate potential low gas pressure
Functions
- Detecting pipeline abnormality
Combining gas meter data and pipeline data enable to grasp local gas grid. - Collecting gas supply pressure status at different time and estimate potential low gas pressure
Mapping gas supply pressure data dynamics at different time (e.g. 08:00-12:00)
2. Battery Status Monitoring
Advantages
- Enable efficient plan for battery change
- Prevent battery run out without notice
Functions
- Resonable planning for the battery changing and maintenance Visualize the battery life of each meter
- Well-grasping of regional characteristics and issues Battery Life will be displayed on the map
3. Shut-off Valve Status Monitoring
Advantages
- Efficient valve re-opening after shut-off
- Enable safe and efficient recovery works
Functions
- Enable safe and efficient recovery works
Panasonic has long experience in Japan that is frequent earthquake country - After earthquake an auto shut-off, analyze gas pipeline supply pressure
- Mapping meter status (normal, alerted and shut-off) after earthquake
4. RF Monitoring
Advantages
- Efficient analysis of communication error
- RF (Radio Frequency) value optimization for saving battery
Functions
- Reducing time to solve communication error
With the status of surrounding meters or DC (Data Concentrator), the root cause communication error can be estimated. - Adjusting communication power
Enable to save the battery power
AMR (Automatic Meter Reading) Service
Remote meter reading is possible by retrofitting external NB-IoT units to traditional gas meters. By specifying and individual ID and data extraction period for a gas meter, the target meters reading data and anomaly detection data will be output from a centrally managed database in the cloud.
Panasonic´s retrofit NB-IoT Unit
- Long battery life as utilizing NB-IoT Communication
- High Reliability SIM as utilizing Embedded SIM
- Detecting Temper
Functions
- Automatic meter Reading
- Outputs meter reading and error data for specified meters
What you can see
- Address of the unit (meter)
- Meter ID
- Communicating Number
- Scale
- Consumption data for 2 months
- Phenomenon
- Data per hours by day
System Configuration Chart
NB-IoT Connectivity Service
Panasonic will support the all the duties from contract to SIM management.
Benefit
Workload reduction
- eSim is installed on PCB
One window
- in case of communication trouble, Solve incidents by Panasonic as one stop partner
- Flexible connectivity service with utility´s more effective work
- Only one contract for cellular network service per region
- eSIM adopting (eUICC to be available after GSMA´s approval)
- SIM-on-chip adoption
Key Benefit for Utility
