Manual Meter Reading Cost Minimization

Southern California Gas Company Mathematics, 2012-13

Liaison(s): Brad Davis, Rick Jefferson, Ron Johnson, Gary Mgeryan, Hugo Rimbert
Advisor(s): Lisette DePillis
Students(s): Ben Gross, Katarina Hoeger (PM), Kevin Varela-O’Hara, Tim Yee

Southern California Gas (SCG) Company is converting manually read meters to automated meters, obviating the need for employees to visit and read gas meters in person. As clusters of meters throughout Southern California become automated over time, the number of remaining manually read meters will diminish until all meters have become automated. Our team is developing a tool that uses the locations of the remaining manually read meters to generate new cost-minimizing meter reading routes.