Rates Planning Service Center Fifth Street Redevelopment Scam Calls Advanced Meters In Your Neighborhood Education Programs Rocky Reach Discovery Center Public Power Benefit Program Blog Home / Learning Center / Advanced Meters / How Does Advanced Metering Work? / How Does Advanced Metering Work? Advanced, two-way digital meters will connect homes and businesses to the PUD and will collect customer meter reads automatically. This means that: Advanced digital meters record customer energy-use information throughout the day, just as today’s meters do. Customer energy-use information is sent several times a day to us, using radio frequency (RF) waves. This is similar to the wireless communications used by cell phones and WiFi. The meters will transmit data for a maximum of 90 seconds per day. Once it’s within our secure firewall, the information will be matched up with customer accounts for billing and other customer service activities.