Efficient Energy and Water Consumption Measurements, Alcatel-Lucent and DIEHL Energy Solutions, Germany
Alcatel-Lucent, in collaboration with DIEHL Energy Solutions, has developed a comprehensive solution that enables energy supply and combination utilities to provide timely, detailed consumption information to their customers.
The smart metering solution offers automatic and accurate monitoring of electricity, gas, heating and water consumption. The solution encompasses measurement devices, through measurement data collection and management systems, as well as components for wide area network communication systems, to a comprehensive service offering for suppliers and measurement service providers.
In October 2009, Alcatel-Lucent signed an agreement with the German municipal utility Stadtwerke Pasewalk GmbH to implement smart meter operation services. The solution will help the municipal utility address the multiple challenges that are imposed on utilities throughout Europe to respond to economic pressure from stakeholders and regulators for greater asset efficiency as well as reducing their environmental impact.
Alcatel-Lucent’s end-to-end approach is designed to ensure that Stadtwerke Pasewalk is in compliance with upcoming European Union regulations and can provide its customers with an instrument with which they can monitor their own energy consumption in real time and optimize accordingly.
Alcatel-Lucent’s service package benefits from the know-how of its partners: Vodafone Germany, DIEHL Energy Solutions and SIV AG, with its 100% subsidiary UTIPS GmbH, a provider of integrated solutions and services for the energy sector. Alcatel-Lucent will operate the central meter data management system to monitor and control the smart meters and integrate the individual systems. Vodafone Germany will provide machine-to-machine communication solutions and DIEHL Energy Solutions will deliver the smart meter and systems solutions plus attached services. SIV AG is providing their ERP system kVASy®, used for billing by the Stadtwerke Pasewalk as well as for services of UTIPS GmbH, which will be linked to the Alcatel-Lucent components.
