Sometimes such deviations are caused by faulty meters.
Last month, it was revealed that faulty meters had lead to customers being overcharged for up to seven years.
And while the Navigant analysis did uncover a few faulty meters, the study also found that the smart devices were actually more accurate than the ones they replaced.
During conversion of mode from intermittent to continuous in the year 2007, all property connections were changed, faulty meters were replaced/repaired, illegal connections were removed/regularized, public stand posts were converted to grouped pipe connections with metering, and old pipelines (about one-third of total pipelines) were replaced by new pipelines.
A very smart looking person is on your doorstep, telling you tales of drunkenness and cruelty, or at the very least a saga about a faulty gas meter, or a lost train ticket to (say) Edinburgh.
In 2011, Cape Town replaced 20,574 faulty water meters and trained 100 school caretakers in 60 schools about water conservation.
Categorical variables and detection coefficients are also introduced in the model to identify the periods and locations of energy frauds as well as faulty smart meters.
Simulations are conducted and the results show that the proposed algorithms can successfully detect all the fraudulent consumers and discover faulty smart meters in a neighborhood area network.
When he discovered that the drapery they had planned to use fell short of the stage floor because of a faulty conversion from meters into yards, Mr. Eula went out and bought a roll of white seamless paper and, using black stove paint and a broom, sketched the Eiffel Tower.
For the first days they will hand out educational pamphlets, but thereafter they will give sommonses to owners of illegally parked cars, and check meters for slugs, faulty operation and evidence of meter-feeding.
