Coordinated collection of metering data

A method comprising:

• under control of a computing device of a utility head-end computing device configured with computer-executable instructions:
• receiving, pushed from a first data collector, resource consumption data of a first plurality of endpoints for which the first data collector is responsible for providing resource consumption data;
• receiving, pushed from a second data collector, resource consumption data of a second plurality of endpoints for which the second data collector is responsible for providing resource consumption data;
• determining that the head-end computing device is missing resource consumption data of an endpoint for which the first data collector is responsible for providing resource consumption data;
• and
• requesting, from the second data collector, the missing resource consumption data of the endpoint.

A method comprising:

• under control of an endpoint of a utility communication network configured with computer-executable instructions:
• collecting resource consumption data for a reporting period;
• sending the resource consumption data for the reporting period to a data collector;
• listening on a communication channel for a window of time after the sending;
• receiving, from the data collector and during the window of time, a request to provide resource consumption data for a period prior to the reporting period;
• and
• sending the resource consumption data for the period prior to the reporting period to the data collector.