Utility Products

Junifer Systems is a technology product company dedicated to delivering and supporting billing and customer care solutions.

Our software has been designed to seamlessly integrate with Smart Meter technology that is currently being rolled out across utility networks in Europe.

Two of our primary differentiators in the supply of such back-office systems is our highly scalable and flexible product suite coupled with our extensive experience of large volume, high throughput environments. 

Our products are effectively Smart Meter agnostic; they are able to simultaneously process multiple data feeds from multiple meters types and formats, regardless of the manufacturer.

The Junifer product suite provides utility distributers and suppliers with solutions that add genuine value to their business and provides a platform for competitive advantage.  The key attributes being:

Flexibility

The solution enables business innovation and competitive advantage through a modular design.  Our software is designed to support the complex needs of utility operators effectively 'out the box'.  It can support both the current and future needs of the operator from a single solution.  This unique capability enables the utility company to manage their transition to a 'next generation' smart environment in a timely and measured manner.

Scalability

Traditionally utility bill processing was based on taking estimated or measured readings on an irregular basis.  With the advent of the Smart Meter, utility operators have access to more accurate and timely data, potentially to a granularity of half an hour.   The ability to access and process such data provides utility operators with many opportunities to differentiate themselves within the market and provide a high value proposition to customers (e.g. proactively inform customers of abnormal usage in near real time).  Furthermore this more valuable, granular data can provide the business with more accurate predictive capabilities.

To realise these opportunities the underlying back office systems will need to process significantly larger volumes of usage data.  This will impose significant strain on systems that were not designed with this purpose in mind.

The Junifer software has been designed to be highly scalable with the ability to support large data volumes in a time and cost efficient manner.

The engineering team responsible for designing the Junifer product suite has leveraged their extensive experience in processing in excess of one billion records a day in telecoms production environments to create what we consider to be the ‘Best of Breed’ system designed specifically for the Utilities industry.

Cost Effectiveness

The Junifer product suite is underpinned by a distributed component architecture.  This design approach enables the system to scale and support an increase of customer accounts and/or frequency of meter readings through the introduction of additional commodity hardware.

The software utilises the latest Graphical User Interface (GUI) design concepts ensuring the look-and-feel is consistent with modern applications.   Furthermore, it is fully internationalized so that each users may experience the software in a language of their choice thereby ensuring that the application is easy to rollout and use in an enterprise utility environment.  Ultimately this leads to ongoing cost savings through automation and efficient working processes.