Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Detect Nontechnical Loss Accurately and Efficiently To Reduce Energy Theft
Detect Nontechnical Loss Accurately and Efficiently To Reduce Energy Theft
Detect Nontechnical Loss Accurately and Efficiently To Reduce Energy Theft
Solution
Solution Brief
Brief
“Revenue (energy) theft analysis is usually • Incomplete view of network relationships. • Isolation. Lacking timely and comprehen-
the main driver for smart metering It’s hard to collect data from disparate sive customer insights, many fraud teams
deployment in regions with a high level of energy consumption and feeder systems miss opportunities to pass critical infor-
nontechnical losses that have a significant and bring it together with other information mation to customer-facing teams.
impact on a utility’s financial performance.” outside the metering area.
• Inefficient use of resources. Lacking
Top Use Cases for Meter Data • Simplistic analytics. Many systems rely on comprehensive data, visualization tools,
Analytics Across the Utility Value Chain
Zarko Sumic, Gartner, Inc. rules, generate false positives and can’t interactivity and prioritized alerts,
3 June, 2015
adapt to changing loss patterns. investigators cannot be highly productive.
To detect potentially fraudulent activity, SAS provides data manage- • Flagged an additional 200,000 potential fraud cases for further
ment and advanced analytics capabilities that leave no stone unturned investigation.
when collecting and analyzing data.
SAS Facts
• SAS helps customers at more than • A
dvanced data mining from SAS • IDC ranked SAS as the leader in the
75,000 sites improve performance enables analytics on both structured Worldwide Credit Risk Analytics
and deliver value by making better and unstructured data to reveal hid- Solutions 2014 Vendor Assessment.
decisions faster. den fraudulent activities.
Learn more about SAS software and services for utilities at sas.com/utilities
SAS and all other SAS Institute Inc. product or service names are registered trademarks or trademarks of
SAS Institute Inc. in the USA and other countries. ® indicates USA registration. Other brand and product
names are trademarks of their respective companies. Copyright © 2015, SAS Institute Inc. All rights reserved.
106064_S143526.0915