submetering

Tenant utility measurement

Submetering is measuring utility usage for individual units within a larger property that has a single main meter.

A landlord with one electric meter for an apartment building might install submeters to track each tenant's consumption and bill accordingly: The building switched to submetering so residents pay for their own water usage.

The practice incentivizes conservation and shifts costs from property owners to occupants.

utility

electricity

Energy from charged particles

  • waterClear essential liquid
  • gasFormless, expanding substance
  • tenantOne who rents property

billing · allocation · landlord · consumption · apartment · commercial · usage · individual · monitoring · reading

technology

sensor

Input-detecting device

  • smartMentally quick, or fashionable
  • digitalOf discrete data
  • dataFacts for analysis

software · dashboard · wireless · real-time · automated · IoT · pulse · transmitter · interface · logging

efficiency

conservation

Preventing waste or loss

incentive · waste · behavior · accountability · sustainability · benchmark · optimization · demand · peak · load

regulatory

compliance

Adhering to requirements

disclosure · accuracy · certification · standards · mandate · requirement · jurisdiction · tenant-rights · municipal · statute

Opposites
metering granularity

submeteringunmetered

Not measured by usage

billing responsibility

submeteringutilities included

Services bundled with rent

Family

meter, meters, metered, metrics, metric, metrical, metering, metrology, metrological

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