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What is a ‘Centralised Management Package’?
iPulse is a package Product and Providers
iPulse enables you to make your heat network smart. Allowing you to use data to actively monitor and manage your heat network.
Our iPulse technology allows you to collect data from meters and network assets (HIU, boilers, heat pumps) and allows you to remotely interact with them. Allowing you to remotely commission and optimise them to improve efficiency and operation reliability.
The data from iPulse can also be used to provide innovative billing. Allowing for operators to protect revenues and as such reducing energy costs to residents.
Benefits & Operation
Inta does not provide the billing infrastructure.
Leaving the network operator free to select their own choice.
Hiper II is the only HIU on the market that has the capability to work with iPulse!
Its’s unique electronic controller is Modbus enabled and iPulse links this with the meter and billing provider and service teams
HIUs being remotely monitored gives the operator or maintenance service engineers has been the long term objective for making an interface unit that is electronically controlled rather than thermostatic.
Electronics enable monitoring, and with information that the electronic controller uses to control stable operating temperatures and self diagnostics the network operator is able to manage the efficient operation of the network and each interface unit remotely.
A manufacturer and billing services provider are different entities, so reliable partnerships have to be forged.
But if these partnerships rely on ‘exclusivity’ agreements then the manufacturing sales team’s movements would be ring fenced and the number of viable opportunities reduced.
Some operators and customers may feel that losing the option of using billing services of their choice is a limiting factor, and want to have the option of flexibility so that is satisfied with the chosen service in the future change.
Having the option to do that is important in the selection of service providers.
The Inta iPulse packages allow flexibility in choice, and provides a FULL range of services from support in HIU selection through all the stages of sales, installation, commissioning, warranty support and servicing to the annual customer billing for heat used and monitoring of the units and network ultimate efficiency.
Billing Services Providers use their own marketing strategies, but can freely name the Hiper II HIU as their chosen interface unit. The software packages are tested and designed for the Inta controller so it would be very difficult and inconsistent for them to use a different HIU, the HIU would have to have an Inta controller.
Definitions
Installers and Merchants – Customers and sales of HIU and Accessories
Clients – Developers and Network Operators – Customers of Billing Providers and potential Inta clients
Consultants – specification
Key Components
The iPulse Electronics Box.
The additional electronics box that provides the flow of information between the HIU the Gateway which provides the internet connection for the Monitoring Plan. This will take the form of a connection box which will be mounted outside the HIU, possibly on a wall mounting bracket. This box will be wired to the Modbus connection in the controller and also linked to Heat Meter mBus to read primary flow rates.
Metering and Billing Package.
The Monitoring Plan
The client’s expectation for the monitoring plan will drive the choice of the Billing Provider.
On selection of the Monitoring Plan, the associated Electrics Box can be added to the HIU.
It is important that the Billing Provider wins the approval to supply the Billing Package.
Without that the Monitoring Package is not possible. The network operator can chose a billing Provider of their choice from a list of those approved by Inta.
The Billing Provider duties are;
Billing Services examples
