If you have IoT meters, setting up a second or third meter reading for the same value with a different format probably wouldn’t be that big of a lift.

If you’re logging the meter data manually and these values all scale proportional to each other, it might make more sense to have an excel calculator where you periodically export the meter and have the calculator spit out the other reading.

I believe you would have to create a meter for each one.

However, what you can do to save time with filling them out is to create a procedure that houses all these meter so that they are in one place when you come to take a reading.

Thanks Mike, We aren’t Enterprise level yet so don’t have IoT enabled but likely to be in our future. Thaks for the suggestions. Will give it a little more thought.   

I think I have run into another issue. When entering meter data the reading date is recorded as the day you enter the reading. I want to enter meter readings that occurred in the past but where the utilities bill has only just come in as an example. It feels to me there should be a way to date stamp a reading manually but I can’t figure out how to do it. 

I don’t believe you can time stamp a historical meter reading.

If you were to set this IRL meter up as an asset as well as a recorded meter in MaintainX you could create a works order every time a utility bill came in, then add a procedure where you can log the meter reading, the date it was read, attach the actual bill and even put a cost into it the job for reporting purposes. There’s even the possibility of adding per unit into this job and logging that, say for instance you are tracking your kWh usage of electricity per bill,  you could add this as a singular part at eg: £0.30 per kWh and you have used 1000hrs per bill it would be able to track this and also adjust itself as a moving average to help track inflation rise and usage costs over the year

From what I’ve seen so far there’s no way to manually assign a date to a meter reading. Even if you go into the meter→ reading→ reading detail→ edit the only thing you can change is the value or add an image to your reading. Definitely something I think could be improved especially in your case where you are adding data from another table. Maybe send a suggestion to the MX support team?