Thanks For Using the EnergyElephant IPhone App

What does the EnergyElephant iOS app do?

The EnergyElephant meter reading app is designed to allow you to quickly and easily submit your electricity or gas meter reading by just taking a photo of the meter reading. If you have an EnergyElephant account, we can then pass this onto your meter reading operator to make sure your bills remain accurate. In some cases your supplier will give you a discount for providing accurate metering data.

Benefits of using the app

1. No more estimated energy bills.
2. Over 75% FASTER than typical meter reading systems and other apps.
3. Easy to use - take a readable photo and submit!
4. No need to remember difficult account numbers or meter point reference numbers etc. All you need is your email address.
5. No more reading errors. We sanity check your meter reading to ensure it is in the right ball park to the reading we expect, so no more "fat fingers" typing in an extra digit by mistake.

Other features

The EnergyElephant meter reading app can also be used for the following tasks:

1. Annual Energy Use: Calculate your annual energy usage, costs and CO2 emissions by taking one meter reading at the beginning of each year.
2. Seasonal Energy Use: Calculate your seasonal energy usage, costs and CO2 emissions by taking one meter reading at the beginning of each season.
3. Monthly Energy Use: Calculate your monthly energy usage, costs and CO2 emissions by taking one meter reading at the beginning of each month.
4. Weekly Energy Use: Calculate your weekly energy usage, costs and CO2 emissions by taking one meter reading at the beginning of each week.
5. Daily Energy Use: Calculate your daily energy usage, costs and CO2 emissions by taking one meter reading at the beginning of any two consecutive days.
6. Estimate Night Use: Calculate how much energy you use at night before investing in installing a night rate meter. Take a meter reading on a typical energy use night, at the beginning of the night rate tariff time and again in the morning when the night rate tariff time ends. Most night rates commence around about midnight and end in the morning around 7 to 9 hours later.
7. Estimate Peak Daily Use: Take a meter reading at the beginning and end of the day most energy is used in your building.
8. Estimate Weekend Use: Take a meter reading at the beginning (Friday evening) and end of the weekend (Monday morning).
9. Estimate Minimum / Baseline Daily Use: Take a meter reading at the beginning and end of the day most energy is used in your building.
10. Estimate Energy Leakage: Calculate how much energy is leaking by turing off all power consumers (where safe to do so), taking a meter reading using the app, and a few hours later (i.e. over night), take another meter reading to see how much has been consumed.
11. Estimate Energy Usage of new equipment: Take two meter readings to establish a baseline, after taking the second meter reading, turn on the new equipment. After an hour or so turn off the new equipment and immediately take a meter reading. The new equipment energy use will be the increase in energy use between the two periods.
12. Estimate Energy savings of upgrades: Take two meter readings to establish a baseline, taking the second meter reading before the energy upgrade has occurred. After a sufficient period of time take another meter reading. The energy upgrade saving will be the decrease in energy use between the two periods.