Badger Meter BEACON User Manual

BEACON Advanced Metering Analytics

Software At A Glance

BEACON At A Glance is the control center for your Utility, with a variety of modules that provide a snapshot view of current and historical activity, real-time status for any issues that may need attention and access to all BEACON major functions.

Simply click and drag a module to reposition it or use the Add/Remove link to add or remove a module. Available modules are described below.

Billing Reads

Process read data captured by the system into a billing file that can be passed to your billing software. Billing Reads shows meters that have a current billing read

• Click the number of meters to display a list.

• To display a list of all previously run billing read files, click Billing Reads.

• To create a new billing read file, click New Billing Read.

Provides an overview of any flow issues in the water system. Select all the meters in

Click to see a list of accounts currently reporting the condition.

Number and % of gateways reporting with and without issues as well as a list of

available and meters missing reads.

Flow Health

the system or select a user specific group to view.

Gateway Health

gateways with the reported issues.

Endpoint Health

Number and % of endpoints reporting with and without issues as well as a list of

endpoints with the reported issues.

System Water Usage

Snapshot of the water usage in your system. Can be used to compare today’s usage to yesterday’s water usage in graph and number formats. Use the calendar to select

the specific time period to view. Select all the meters in the system or select a user

specific group to view.

Top Accounts By Usage

Displays the top accounts that are currently using the most water in the system by

day, week or month. Up to 40 accounts can be selected. Columns can be sorted.

Click to see account details.

Favorites

Users have the ability to mark specific accounts as favorites. Columns can be sorted.

To mark a favorite, click when viewing the account card on the Monitor page.

Each user sees only the accounts he or she personally marked

as a favorite.

Click to see account details.

What’s New

Displays information on new and upcoming features for the

BEACON AMA software.

Technical Support

Displays the phone number to call for

Badger Meter Technical Support and a link when you need to connect online.

Additional icons

display in the top right

corner as you hover with

the mouse at the top of a

module.

A question mark indicates

information is available.

Click to access the

information.

BEA-QS-00555-EN-01 (January 2014)

Quick Start Guide

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