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3. Data collection and transmission
This is certainly the area that has evolved the most in recent years, and will continue to do so in the years to come, thanks to a combination of two factors:
the technical possibilities of automated coupling between a centralized information system and decentralized equipment have completely changed the offering;
today's energy management, which seeks to optimize usage and enrich the economic signals given to users, increases the need for data dissemination.
3.1 Initially, a visual reading
Initially, meters were equipped with a single dial designed to provide the value of energy consumed between two passes by the meter reader, by calculating the difference between...
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