--- title: How Smart Meter Benefits Get Turbo-Charged with Analytics [eBook] description: Understand and increase Smart Meter Benefits with Analytics and how the Utility Industry and consumers can get turbo-charged benefits. image: https://www.sapbwconsulting.com/hs-fs/file-16620218-jpg/images/utility_industry-resized-161.jpg --- ![](https://www.sapbwconsulting.com/hs-fs/file-16620218-jpg/images/utility_industry-resized-161.jpg) # How Smart Meter Benefits Get Turbo-Charged with Analytics [eBook] Table of Contents Though I have often had to present on the subject of **SAP Industry Solutions**, such as the **Utility Industry** and more specifically, on **Smart Meters**, until very recently, I had not been able to watch a consumer in action actually using a **Smart Meter**.  Why would I be interested, and why should you be? ![Smart Meters](https://www.sapbwconsulting.com/hs-fs/file-16620218-jpg/images/utility_industry-resized-161.jpg)   - **Smart Meters**, coupled with advanced **SAP Analytical Dashboards** based on **xCelsius**, only seemed to be of value to the **Utility Industry**. - The **Electrical Utility Industry** seemed to primarily be using **Smart Meters** to: Inform consumers that they could save money doing laundry late at night (I don’t like to hear the buzzer saying the dryer is done in the middle of the night, personally) - Via the use of **Smart Meters, **and dashboards based on SAP smart meter analytics, the **Utility Industry** has more information and ability to manage the interconnection of their power grids and thus, can smooth out supply and demand patterns. How To Use [Google Keyword](https://www.sapbwconsulting.com/blog/inbound-marketing/how-to-use-google-keyword-planner-tool-tutorial) Planner Tool Tutorial ## All well and good, but as they say, **WIIFME (What’s In It For Me)**.  I recently got to watch an Uber-Geek buy a wired house and see how he uses the **output of the Smart Meter** at the consumer level: - First off, his **iPhone is now his Thermostat**.  Though the house is, of course, equipped with a fully functioning Thermostat, it has an IP address and he controls the temperature, both on a scheduled basis and in response to complaints from the er, occupants by going to an app and using a slider control (he works in Houston, his house is in Miami) to adjust the temp. - He can see, using his iPhone and iPad, a **consumer level analytical dashboard** of how much his house is costing to operate on a **Monthly/Daily/Hourly** basis.  - Because the **feedback loop** is easy, **remotely accessible**, and always there, and alert driven (heat level too high, occupant registers a complaint), attention is now paid to the system.  I have to admit, I have never paid attention to anything other than the bill, which is always **too high**. - The **SER (System Efficiency Rating)** of the A/C, though meeting the current standards, could have been much higher (which would not have even been possible to research or of interest, prior to the internet and the **Smart Meter enabled feedback loop**). I have always wondered why Wal-Mart can demand annual cost reductions from their suppliers but my utility company only ever tells me how little my **rates** are going **up**.  With this Smart Meter system, I can see how the consumer can, using **real-time analytics**, do all that is possible to consume electricity in the most efficient way possible.  I can also see that consumers, if they **[aggregate their data](https://www.sapbwconsulting.com/develop-a-data-governance-framework)**, will definitely start pushing back on the utilities and asking what they have done to **lower their cost **of production, Transmission, Distribution and Maintenance!  All numbers that can be **measured**, **communicated**, and most importantly, **improved**.   [![xCelsius Dashboard Best Practices](https://no-cache.hubspot.com/cta/default/118735/37ffebe1-04ee-41ca-97f0-bb48fccc8382.png)](https://cta-redirect.hubspot.com/cta/redirect/118735/37ffebe1-04ee-41ca-97f0-bb48fccc8382)   **Tell Us How You Benefit from Smart Meters**   People Who Read This Also Read: - Take a [Deeper Dive](https://www.sapbwconsulting.com/blog/deep-dive-into-aircraft-cockpits-vs-dashboards) into Aircraft Cockpits Vs Dashboards Topics from this blog: [Smart Meters](https://www.sapbwconsulting.com/blog/topic/smart-meters) [INDUSTRY SOLUTIONS](https://www.sapbwconsulting.com/blog/topic/industry-solutions) [Best Practices](https://www.sapbwconsulting.com/blog/topic/best-practices) [BW](https://www.sapbwconsulting.com/blog/topic/bw) ### Download SAP BW Mindmap Learn what SAP Business Warehouse is and what it does in under five minutes [![Get this Mindmap](https://no-cache.hubspot.com/cta/default/118735/8db2ad37-8211-47a3-86ae-09b6b2bb297b.png)](https://cta-redirect.hubspot.com/cta/redirect/118735/8db2ad37-8211-47a3-86ae-09b6b2bb297b) [mailto:someone@yoursite.com](mailto:someone@yoursite.com) ### Lonnie D. 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Frequently sought as a public speaker in various events, he is available for both inhouse engagements and ** remote coaching. ** ![Balanced Scorecard Consultant](https://www.sapbwconsulting.com/hubfs/social-suggested-images/Balanced%20Scorecard%20Certified%20Graduate.jpg) He also recently released a book **"How to Dominate Any Market - Turbocharging Your Digital Marketing and Sales Results",** which is available on [ Amazon.](https://www.amazon.com/Dominate-Turbocharging-Digital-Marketing-Results/dp/1728357950/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&qid=1589182458&refinements=p_27%3ALonnie+D.+Ayers&s=books&sr=1-1&text=Lonnie+D.+Ayers)**** [View All Articles by Lonnie D. Ayers, PMP](https://www.sapbwconsulting.com/blog/author/lonnie-d-ayers-pmp) ## The SAP Blog Subscribe to our blog and receive SAP BW Updates, demand generation, inbound marketing, sales enablement, technology and revenue generation insights and ideas delivered right to your email. 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