Optimize Your Business Case
Utility management is really the art and science of exception management. Each utility has unique criteria which it needs to address in order to justify the technology investment and achieve bottom line results in operations, business performance, and customer service.
With TUNet, the business case drives deployment. A utility can choose a full, partial or staged implementation based on its budget, goals, and project timing. And it can select specific starting points in order to accelerate ROI.
For example, a rural utility may want to eliminate high cost reads to homes on the edges of its service territory first. A Muni may want to automate move-in/outs at apartments or dormitories. Or it may want to enact time-of-use billing, load profiling, and curtailment verification programs for its industrial accounts.
The choice is yours. TUNet is the communications backbone that makes it possible. Territory-wide coverage, multi-application support, and true scalability enables a utility to introduce advanced metering when, where and to whatever degree makes sense.
Basic deployment scenarios. Click a line to expand.
1. Full Deployment 
Initial Cost: 100%
Benefits Captured: 100%
Key Benefits:
- Complete deployment
- Drive system-wide operational improvements
- Basis for other automation
- Labor savings / cost containment
Future Applications:
- Distribution automation and data integration via MDM
2. Partial Deployment
Target High Growth Urban & Commercial Zones
Initial Cost: 25%
Benefits Captured: 45%
Key Benefits:
- Minimal capital commitment
- Accelerate benefits to key customers
- Maintain correct practices
- Manage automation transition
Future Benefits:
- Low marginal cost for future expansion
- Deploy at new housing developments & industrial parks
3. Specific Deployment
Commercial & Industrial Only
Initial Cost: 50%
Benefits Captured 65%
Key Benefits:
- Common service by customer type
- Focus technology on high-value customers
- Change management segment by segment
- Limited capital investment
Future Benefits:
- Residential customers
- High return residential accounts
- Residential for operational data
The TUNet 220 MHz and 900 MHz radio engines can be readily repackaged for implementation on distribution devices including feeders, transformers, reclosers, capacitor banks. The ability to remotely monitor and control utility infrastructure devices can significantly reduce the time and expense required by field staff to perform this work.
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