Method and system for detecting anomalies in energy consumption

A non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising software code adapted, when executed on a data processing apparatus, to perform operations for detecting conditions indicative of utility meter tampering, meter faults or theft of a utility, the operations comprising:

• receiving, from a meter:
• consumption data indicating consumption of a utility at a location served by the meter;
• and
• event data comprising one or more events generated by the meter, wherein events comprise status messages generated by the meter indicating a status or status change of the meter;
• analysing the consumption data to detect a predetermined consumption condition;
• analysing the event data to detect a predetermined event or event pattern in the event data;
• and
• generating an alert condition in response to detecting both the consumption condition based on the consumption data and the event or event pattern based on the status messages.

A system comprising at least one processor and associated memory storing instructions configured, when executed by the at least on processor, for detecting conditions indicative of utility meter tampering, meter faults or theft of a utility, the system configured to:

• receive, from a meter:
• consumption data indicating consumption of a utility at a location served by the meter;
• and
• event data comprising one or more events generated by the meter, wherein events comprise status messages generated by the meter indicating a status or status change of the meter;
• analyse the consumption data to detect a predetermined consumption condition;
• analyse the event data to detect a predetermined event or event pattern in the event data;
• and
• generate an alert condition in response to detecting both the consumption condition based on the consumption data and the event or event pattern based on the status messages.