Juice STS Prepayment
The Standard Transfer Specification (STS) has become recognized as the only globally accepted open standard for prepayment systems, ensuring inter-operability between system components from different manufacturers of prepayment systems.
Juice supports the use of STS, numeric tokens to exchange information from the vending system to the meter supporting both STS4 and STS6 certified metering solutions. Customers purchase credit at any vending location designated by the utility and receive a numeric code to enter into a keypad connected installed at their home that is connected to the household meter. Combined with AMI, STS provides a proven scalable solution for loss prevention.
Juice supports the use of STS, numeric tokens to exchange information from the vending system to the meter supporting both STS4 and STS6 certified metering solutions. Customers purchase credit at any vending location designated by the utility and receive a numeric code to enter into a keypad connected installed at their home that is connected to the household meter. Combined with AMI, STS provides a proven scalable solution for loss prevention.
Advantages of STS Prepayment
Disadvantages as compared to AMI
- Customers manage their own accounts, no meters to read and bill
- Simple and scalable, no communication infrastructure to build and maintain
- STS is an open, international standard with over 100 participating vendors and deployed in 84 countries
- Numeric tokens allow for purchasing via SMS, mobile app, online
- Low-cost relative to AMI
Disadvantages as compared to AMI
- The utility has no control over when a customer's meter will disconnect
- It's more difficult to detect bypassing and tampering than with AMI
- Does not support TOU and highly structured tariffs
STS Documents
| STS Brochure |
| STS TID Rollover 2024 |
| Utiliflex STS Certification (STS6) |