Advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) is the foundation on which a modern utility runs billing, grid analytics, customer engagement and revenue protection. Yet most AMI programmes are still procured as a technology decision rather than an estate decision — and the cost of that framing shows up years later in rollout delays, data-quality exceptions, dormant devices and contracts that are hard to leave. CEHG treats AMI as a fifteen-to-twenty-year operational asset and engineers it accordingly.
We work with utilities, metering operators and distribution network operators across the full AMI lifecycle. The engagement is deliberately independent: no commercial relationship with SIM providers, mobile network operators or device vendors, so the recommendation rests on coverage analysis, estate data and whole-life cost rather than a vendor's range. The people who scope the work do the work — there is no junior team and no offshore hand-off, and the evidence base is owned by the operator, not the supplier.
Our practice covers rollout sequencing and programme velocity, data quality and the operational value it unlocks, and the security, scale and long-horizon decisions that decide whether a programme stays owned. That includes turning AMI data into grid intelligence, designing device architecture that survives contact with the field, and writing procurement requirements vendors can actually be held to. The hard parts — where the value sits — are surfaced rather than hidden behind headline rates.
The result is an advanced metering infrastructure programme the operator can defend at every contract renewal: a defensible basis for the bearer, device and platform decisions, measured against a fixed datum, and designed to outlive the technology cycle itself.