IEEE PES Vancouver Chapter is pleased to announce the following technical talk at the BC Hydro Edmonds campus. The theme of the talk is: ” Advanced Metering Infrastructure”. Electrical metering has always been more than a billing mechanism, it has defined the boundaries of what utilities could see, know, and act upon. This presentation traces the evolution of metering technology from its electromechanical origins through to the advanced metering infrastructure of today, using BC Hydro’s metering history as a living case study that mirrors and illuminates the broader industry arc. From early induction disk meters through BC Hydro’s AMI 1.0 deployment and smart metering program, the utility’s journey reflects the engineering decisions, standards challenges, and operational transformations that have shaped metering practice across North America. BC Hydro currently operates a large and mature smart metering fleet based on a private wireless mesh network and cellular technology. While the current platform has provided strong foundational capabilities for billing and operations, several emerging challenges and opportunities exist including, aging hardware platform approaching lifecycle transition timelines (~20-year asset life), increasing complexity in enabling new capabilities, new meter failure patterns, limited ability to access and utilize advanced meter data and evolving grid requirements such as DER integration and electrification. As BC Hydro’s metering asset ages, we are at the crossroads of making significant asset investment to refresh our ageing fleet of metering system assets. This generational investment in AMI2.0 promises to bring more flexibility, optionality and opportunities for addressing some existing and new grid edge use-cases. Looking forward, the presentation postulates the defining characteristics of the next generation of metering, one in which the meter is no longer a passive endpoint but an active node of grid-edge intelligence. BC Hydro’s AMI 1.0 foundation and AMI 2.0 asset refresh journey ahead provides a concrete launching point for examining what comes next: sub-second data granularity, operational flexibility and the convergence of measurement, communication, and computation at the grid edge. Speaker(s): Kunle Adeleye, Agenda: – 4:00 PM: Networking and refreshments – 4:30-6:00 PM: Technical talk on Advanced Metering Infrastructure, including Q&A Room: EDM Auditorium, 6911 Southpoint Drive , Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada, V3N 4X8