Patent ID: 8730056

Claim:
A system for high volume import, validation, and estimation of meter data comprising: at least one receiver server configured to: receive meter data from a plurality of external devices, each external device being assigned to one of a plurality of device groupings; sort the meter data into a plurality of workbins respectively associated with the plurality of device groupings; and compress the meter data contained in each workbin into a plurality of data files, each data file being identifiable by workbin; a plurality of validation and estimation servers configured to: import, for one workbin at a time, all data files associated with such workbin from the at least one receiver server; store historic data associated with each workbin; validate the meter data contained within the data files against the historic data, by comparing such meter data with historic data from comparable prior periods of time; use stored historic data for a given workbin to estimate replacement values for meter data that is determined to be invalid or missing for such given workbin; and form the validated and estimated meter data into a plurality of import files; wherein the plurality of validation and estimation servers operate during a plurality of processing windows, each processing window corresponding to one of the plurality of workbins such that all data files associated with a workbin are processed by the plurality of validation and estimation servers as a batch; and at least one database server configured to import and store the plurality of import files.