Read consumption from a bill AIAI feature

Consumption is the number the whole simulation hangs off, and it usually arrives as a bill the customer photographed badly in their hallway. Reonic reads that bill for you: you upload it, and the consumption and tariff fields come back filled in for you to check.

Everything it extracts is editable before you accept it, so the scan is a head start rather than a black box.

Before you start

• Have the bill as a PDF, JPEG or PNG. You can upload up to six files in one scan, which is how you handle a multi-page bill: send all the pages together rather than one at a time.
• A whole-page image beats a close-up. The totals the scan needs are usually in a summary box, and a photo cropped to one line loses the context that identifies it.
• Bill reading is available on residential projects for every workspace. On commercial projects it's switched on per workspace — ask your Reonic account manager if you don't see it.

Scan a bill

1. Open the project and go to the energy-consumption step.
2. When asked how you want to provide consumption data, choose Scan the customer's electricity bill.
3. Upload the file, or pick one already attached to the project.
4. Click Start scan and wait. It usually takes a few seconds.
5. Review the extracted values in the second step of the dialog.
6. Correct anything that's wrong by typing over it.
7. Click Use these values, then save the project.

What comes back

On a standard bill you get the annual consumption in kWh, the price per kWh, the fixed monthly charge, the total annual cost, the month-by-month consumption, and a suggested load profile. A short note explains, in your language, which figures on the bill it used.

Two markets read differently, and Reonic switches automatically based on your workspace — there's no setting to pick:

• Italy. Consumption comes back split across the three time-of-use bands (F1 peak, F2 shoulder, F3 off-peak). The price is the average all-in rate from the regulated cost-summary box that every Italian supplier prints — the Scontrino dell'energia or sintesi degli importi — including IVA.
• Brazil. You get the standard fields plus the connection phase (monofásico, bifásico or trifásico), the TUSD Fio B grid tariff, and the public-lighting contribution (CIP/COSIP).

If you're unsure which mode ran, the shape of the result tells you: three consumption columns means Italy, a single column means standard.

Ask for a correction

If the result is wrong, you can ask for another read rather than retyping everything.

1. Find the Request correction field below the extracted values.
2. Describe what's wrong in full, including both the wrong value and the right one.
3. Click Request correction and wait for the new result.
4. Repeat with a sharper description if it's still off, or just type the correct value in by hand.

Write the correction as if to someone who hasn't seen the previous attempt — because it hasn't. Each correction is a fresh read of the bill, so a note saying "the consumption is wrong" gives it nothing to work with and usually returns the same figure.

Compare:

• Doesn't work: "You got the annual consumption wrong."
• Works: "Annual consumption should be 5,000 kWh, not 3,000 — it's on the totals line at the bottom of page 1."
• Better still: "Annual consumption is the figure labelled Jahresverbrauch near the bottom, 5,000 kWh. Don't use the monthly average above it."

Re-scanning reuses the file you already uploaded, so there's nothing to upload again.

Things to know

• Check before you accept. The scan is a reading of a photographed document, and bills vary enormously between suppliers and countries. Treat the values as a draft that saves typing, not as verified data.
• Only consumption and tariff are read. The customer's name, address and supplier are not extracted; you enter those the usual way.
• The bill is read by an external AI service. The document leaves Reonic to be processed, so handle a customer's bill with the same care you'd apply to any document they gave you.
• A monthly breakdown makes the simulation better. Where the bill shows month-by-month figures, the scan picks them up and the simulation models the year more accurately than a flat annual total would.
• Uploaded bills stay attached to the project. They remain available as project files after the scan.
• Sense-check the monthly figures against the annual total. They should roughly add up; a large gap is the clearest sign the scan misread something.

Last updated on September 9, 2026