Advanced meters offer the prospect of saving utilities a lot of lost revenue. Part of the reason is that smart meters tell the supplier how much energy is being consumed on a regular basis. Compare that to a traditional dumb meter, which the company may not even have a record of in their systems, and which only gives accurate data as often as somebody reads it. Read here about United Illuminating, the winners of the 2007 metering award for best revenue assurance initiative, as decided by the Global AMI Utility Peer Group (UPN). The figures for 2006, with ROI of over 240% and $2.1 million in revenue recovered, speak for themselves.