Lead the Way in Smart Meter Implementations with Confidence

In the rapidly evolving Utilities sector, Smart Meters play a crucial role in delivering accurate consumption data, seamless connectivity, secure transactions to end customers and meeting regulatory compliance. Our comprehensive Smart Meter Testing & Assurance services ensure your devices meet industry standards, cybersecurity requirements, and interoperability expectations, providing flawless performance, regulatory compliance, and consumer trust in a connected utilities ecosystem.

HOW WE CAN HELP YOU

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With a focus on precision, reliability, security, operability and longevity, we help our clients to deploy future ready Smart Metering solutions that stand up to real-world demands.

  • Enhanced Compliance & Risk Management: Implement robust compliance frameworks and regular audits, ensuring adherence to industry regulations and reducing regulatory risks.

  • Scalable & Future-Ready Infrastructure: Deliver scalable testing solutions that adapt to growing data volumes and system complexity, supporting long-term business expansion.

  • Dedicated CoE: Our dedicated Research & Development unit helps to provide AI-Driven unique, tailored and best-fitting solutions.

  • Accelerators & Improved user experience: Leverage our plug and play accelerators to jumpstart end-to-end automation and achieve best test efficiency.

YOUR BENEFITS

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Qualitest delivers Next-Gen Quality Engineering for Smart Meter implementations, ensuring seamless integration and data integrity between consumers and providers. We test Smart Metering systems under real-world and extreme conditions to validate their functional accuracy, performance, scalability, and interoperability, guaranteeing reliability across networks and utility ecosystems.

Enhanced User Experience

Our expertise in testing Smart Meters ensures the end customer experience in viewing readings, billing and invoice and performing all possible functions on the meters are consistent, performant and reliable across the ecosystems and all contributing to higher customer satisfaction and business retention.

OUR SOLUTIONS

End-to-End Quality Engineering for Smart Metering systems

Qualitest leads the way in Quality Assurance for Smart Meter technologies. Our advanced, automated, and AI-driven solutions provide comprehensive testing across Smart Meter hardware, software, and communication systems, ensuring reliability, performance, security, operability and compliance for seamless utility management.

End-to-End Testing

Our advanced in-lab testing environment ensures Smart Meters function accurately under various load conditions, environmental factors, and real-world usage scenarios. We conduct edge testing, negative testing, compatibility testing, and end-to-end (E2E) testing to validate hardware and software reliability.

Interoperability Testing

Ensures Smart Meters seamlessly integrate with diverse utility systems, communication protocols, and third-party applications. Our expertise covers network compatibility, data exchange reliability, system-wide security, regulatory compliance, and reduced operational risks, helping utilities deliver smooth user experience.

Automation Testing

Qualitest delivers end-to-end Smart Meter test automation, ensuring seamless, secure, and compliant systems. Our Test Automation Framework (TAF) automates key functions, including message traffic validation, meter commissioning, firmware upgrades, and accurate billing and tariff updates. By leveraging advanced automation, AI-driven insights, and rigorous quality assurance, Qualitest empowers utility providers with smarter, more efficient, and highly secure metering solutions, ensuring enhanced customer satisfaction and operational excellence.

Data Management & Analytics Testing

We validate real-time utility consumption tracking, ensuring accurate data processing and predictive analytics for improved grid efficiency. Our testing covers data streaming, data integrity checks, data migration assurance, anomaly detection, and demand response optimization to enhance decision-making for utilities and consumers.

Billing & Payment Assurance

We test the accuracy and reliability of billing systems, ensuring seamless invoicing, error-free payment processing, and compliance with financial regulations. Our API-based scenario orchestration and Bot-leveraged functional testing ensure high transaction accuracy and fraud protection, maintaining customer trust.

Phygital Automation with Customized In-House Bot Framework

Our customized in-house Bot solutioning frameworks offer cutting-edge phygital test automation, seamlessly integrating software and hardware interactions with the Smart Meters. Equipped with a multi-axis industrial robot and precision camera, the versatile framework and scalable features enable quick adaptation to robotic arms for any automotive test case.

Smart Meter Testing Lab Setup

Our state-of-the-art smart metering test labs provide an advanced environment for controlled testing. We simulate real-world conditions and various network configurations to ensure cost-effective, accelerated, and compliance-driven testing. Our Labs as a Service (LaaS) model allows for remote access, enabling utilities and meter manufacturers to conduct rigorous testing without extensive infrastructure investment.

Performance Testing

Our performance test strategy helps to achieve the highest scalability of Smart Meter interactions, data transfer ensuring customer satisfaction at highest concurrency load. We measure speed, optimize infrastructure consumption and ensure the systems meets high availability and resiliency standards.

Cybersecurity & Data Protection

Our robust security testing ensures end-to-end data protection, preventing unauthorized access, data breaches, and cyberattacks. We assess data encryption, secure communication protocols, authentication mechanisms, and regulatory compliance to safeguard consumer information and maintain system integrity.

A success story

Qualitest supported the largest supplier of electrical power in Israel by providing testing the transfer of data between the smart meters and their sub-systems Challenges

01—Challenge

The client required testing of data transfer between smart meters and subsystems across 15 different models, including 1-phase and 3-phase meters.

02—Solution

Qualitest conducted end-to-end testing of data transfer between smart meters and subsystems (MDMHES workforce management, CRM, billing, DWH), performing both manual and automated acceptance testing. We tested firmware upgrades, data transfer on cellular and wired Power Line Communication (PLC) meters, and validated smart meter functionalities such as remote activation/deactivation, debt notifications, demand estimations, and CIM event alarms.

03—Result

By transitioning from manual to automated testing, regression run time was reduced by 90%, with zero human errors and 100% test coverage achieved.

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