Most buildings will have a single energy entry point with a primary meter attached monitoring total energy input to the building. But for landlords of multiple occupancy buildings, this solitary meter will not provide the level of detail required to accurately calculate how much each tenant is consuming. For this you need secondary or sub metering.
By attaching a sub meter at the entry point to each unit, a landlord can reliably measure the amount of energy each tenant is consuming and produce accurate monthly billing.
How to meter for tenant billing
In order to collect accurate billing data, a meter is required to measure the energy input into each tenanted unit, whether that be a retail unit in a shopping centre or an apartment in a block of flats. Firstly, all inbound energy connections to the unit must be identified and a sub meter attached to each to monitor the total energy input to that tenant.
Sub meters will then monitor the energy transfered through those channels and aggregate all that data in real time to a centralised server for analysis. This data can then be used to accurately produce reports on energy consumption and produce monthly billing.
How to get tenant billing
Firstly, identify all energy points that you want to monitor for each tenant. Then attach sub meters to those to energy inputs. Readings can then either be taken manually, or if you use an integrated system, readings can be sent digitally in real-time from each meter to a centralised server for automated billing.
Enistic’s sub meters, analytics software and tenant billing report allows for the automation of this entire process, and our sub meters come in a range of sizes to suit applications of any scale. What’s more, Enistic sub meters are unobtrusive and can be easily retrofitted without costly or disruptive installation.