Instantaneous energy resource use monitoring and customer engagement server

A system for instantaneous resource monitoring and engagement, the system comprising:

• a resource server, coupled to the internet cloud, that monitors use of a resource, and that engages resource users when unusual patterns of resource consumption are detected, said resource server comprising:
• a meter reading processor, configured to communicate with a plurality of resource monitors that are each disposed within radio range of a corresponding plurality of resource meters, wherein said resource meters transmit corresponding radio signals indicative of corresponding meter identifiers and current readings, and wherein said each of said plurality of resource monitors receives and decodes one or more of said corresponding radio signals to obtain one or more of said corresponding plurality of meter identifiers and current readings, and wherein said each of said plurality of resource monitors transmits said one or more of said corresponding plurality of meter identifiers and current readings over the internet cloud, and wherein said meter reading processor creates and updates a corresponding plurality of records in a resource database that indicate resource consumption of corresponding facilities;
• a disaggregation processor, configured to analyze said plurality of records to distinguish between normal and abnormal usage patterns by said corresponding facilities, and to detect said unusual patterns of resource consumption;
• and
• an engagement processor, that causes alerts to be transmitted to one or more client devices based on analyses of corresponding resource consumption, wherein said alerts notify corresponding users of said unusual patterns of resource consumption.

A method for instantaneous resource monitoring and engagement, the method comprising:

• monitoring use of a resource, said monitoring comprising:
• communicating with a plurality of resource monitors that are each disposed within radio range of a corresponding plurality of resource meters, wherein the resource meters transmit corresponding radio signals indicative of corresponding meter identifiers and current readings, and wherein the each of the plurality of resource monitors receives and decodes one or more of the corresponding radio signals to obtain one or more of the corresponding plurality of meter identifiers and current readings, and wherein the each of the plurality of resource monitors transmits the one or more of the corresponding plurality of meter identifiers and current readings over the internet cloud;
• creating and updating a corresponding plurality of records in a resource database that indicate resource consumption of corresponding facilities;
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• transmitting alerts to one or more client devices based on analyses of corresponding resource consumption, wherein the alerts notify corresponding users of the unusual patterns of resource consumption.