Advanced smart multi-metering: Synergies between gas and electricity sectors for efficient operations and customer awareness

The technical solution described in this paper enables energy operational efficiency across different energy sectors, leveraging on the synergies with the smart electricity metering infrastructure, while empowering consumers to optimize energy use and enabling value added services. Pushing forward the concept of converging energy infrastructures, solutions for smart gas metering with advanced functionalities are here described taking the opportunities of the solutions deployed in Italy by Enel in the electricity sector. The converging energy infrastructure described is potentially replicable even in other utility sectors like water and public illumination, towards the concept of multiservice infrastructure.