Speaking at Utility Week’s Gas and Power Asset Management conference in Birmingham today Alan Doody, head of asset management at British Gas, said that from the current 229 permutations of smart meters, the number was set to jump to 2,250 by the 2020 government mandate with “different software versions and wireless protocols” along with other technological innovations.
“You’ve almost a tenfold increase in complexity in the asset management”, Doody said.
He added “the amount of data moving around industry is going to explode exponentially and us as asset managers need to make sure we are ready for that or there are going to be some serious financial consequences”.