LONDON, 21st July, 2021 – EDMI, a Global Energy Solution Leader, confirmed today it has delivered over 5 million SMETS2 and AMR devices to Great Britain. The devices include 4 million SMETS2 devices; Communications Hubs and SMETS2 smart electricity and gas meters for the residential smart meter rollout programme, and 1 million AMR smart meters for Commercial and Industrial (C&I) customers.
EDMI is the only company that designs, manufactures and supplies all these SMETS2 device types among active suppliers in the residential market, while also providing AMR smart meters to the C&I sectors
“This is absolutely a remarkable milestone for EDMI. In addition to our presence in the C&I market with AMR smart meters, we have been supplying SMETS2 devices since the rollout programme commenced, starting with Communications Hubs for the North region, then followed by SMETS2 smart meters nationally,” said Willem Hoogers, Managing Director at EDMI Europe.
“The supply dropped in 2020 due to the global pandemic, however, we worked collaboratively with all customers throughout the year, and committed to the delivery when the demand recovered. Now we expect to deliver more than 1.6 million SMETS2 devices in 2021 thanks to our valued customers and partners,” he said.
The total market size for SMETS2 smart meters in Great Britain is 53 million meters across residential and C&I energy consumers. With the recent SMETS2 polyphase smart meter launch, EDMI is targeting to supply over 20 million SMETS2 devices and is well positioned to achieve this strategic goal.
“We are seeing really strong demand as the Government plans for electric vehicles and generation in customer homes warrants three phase technology and resilient supplies, and being part of smart grid plans makes for exciting times,” Willem added.
Osaki Electric Co., Ltd, EDMI’s parent company in Japan, announced that the group has entered into a Sale and Purchase agreement to transfer all of the shares in Quantum Automation to Totech Corporation, a leading building automation company in Japan. This transaction is expected to be completed on 30th September 2021.
Quantum Automation is dedicated to the development, integration and maintenance of building automation systems. Ever since they joined EDMI group in 2001, they have participated in multiple building automation projects in Singapore and have contributed greatly to the development of the infrastructure in Singapore.
EDMI will focus on the smart metering solutions business, and continue to be a great business partner with Quantum Automation in the future.
For more information, please refer to Osaki’s announcement.
LONDON, 10th May, 2021 – Large energy users in Great Britain now have access to EDMI’s market-leading energy solutions, changing the game in the C&I market.
EDMI, a Global Energy Solution Leader, is one of the first suppliers to introduce the latest generation SMETS2-compliant polyphase smart meters to the country.
“We are proud of being one of the first suppliers of SMETS2 polyphase smart meters to the market. We believe this new meter is going to be a game-changer for large energy users who have been unable to benefit from the latest smart metering technology,” said Willem Hoogers, Managing Director at EDMI Europe.
“Leveraging our long presence in the C&I market, we are committed to offering and delivering these new meters to this addressable market for large energy users to enjoy smarter and sustainable use of energy,” he said.
While EDMI is also a key player in the residential rollout of electricity and gas SMETS2 smart meters and communications hubs to residential users, smart C&I technology is very much a part of EDMI’s DNA. EDMI’s deep, feature-rich solutions have been delivering market-leading accuracy and reliability to the 2 million meters C&I market in Great Britain for more than 15 years.
The introduction of EDMI SMETS2 polyphase smart meters will allow EDMI to demonstrate more of the EDMI value proposition across distribution, retail and consumer. Opening the SMETS2 meters C&I market in Great Britain will add to the 3.5 million SMETS2 devices already delivered by EDMI to residential customers.
SINGAPORE, 27th January, 2021 – EDMI, a Global Energy Solution Leader, has reached a milestone in the ANZ region with the connection of its 2 millionth meter to the Storm Head End System.
Storm, the EDMI Energy Cloud Head End, delivered through a Software as a Service (SaaS) model, is now completing over 4 million transactions with electricity and gas meters each day, combining traditional daily billing reads with near real-time reading, real time load control for demand management and remote connects and disconnects. The solution also offers instantaneous streaming of data from devices for real time diagnostics, end customer engagement and management of distributed energy resources.
The Storm Head End is an integral part of EDMI’s market leading AMI 2.0 solution and has been designed and tested to manage meter fleets in excess of 10 million devices.
The solution supports multiple application layer protocols, including DLMS, running across a plethora of physical bearers including cellular, RF and wired technologies for both always on and battery powered devices. With strong network management, including interfaces to existing cellular carrier infrastructure, a robust security model and strong device management capabilities through configuration management and device firmware upgrade, the solution is perfectly positioned not only for utility metering, but also for the management of a broader range of Internet of Things (IoT) devices.
EDMI ANZ Executive Director, Andrew Thomas, expects the volume of devices to only further increase.
“With the drive towards more monitoring and control in the electricity grid, like what we are seeing with the South Australian Government announcement around solar curtailment, I only see an increase in the number of devices being cloud connected moving forward,” said Mr Thomas.
“Storm has positioned itself as a market leader in this space and I am excited by what the future brings, not only in terms of the number of devices that are connected, but how often we interact with them and the value we can deliver from this monitoring and control,” he said.
