Product category: Wireless Communications
News Release from: Coronis Systems
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 24 March 2006
Wireless modules set
for Eastern European meters
Coronis and CMC Ekocon are working together on the first large-scale automatic metering network in Eastern Europe
Coronis and CMC Ekocon are working together on the first large-scale automatic metering (AMR) network in Eastern Europe. Approximately 30,000 water meters will be deployed covering a region that includes the cities of Koper, Izola and Piran in Slovenia. The installation is the first of its type to offer such a high level of automated data collection and remote network monitoring services.
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The leading distributor in the Central and Eastern European metering market, CMC Ekocon is integrating Wavenis wireless technology from Coronis in order to provide more efficient and cost-effective services to WW Koper utility customers.
Coronis designs and develops innovative ultra-low-power and long-range wireless technologies, with turnkey OEM solutions specially engineered for remote and automatic metering applications.
This agreement illustrates the coastal city of Koper's innovative vision and desire to enhance its infrastructure with cutting-edge technologies for automatic metering while respecting strict ROI constraints.
Network deployment will take place over three years, leveraging the flexibility of Wavenis solutions and their ability to be used for walk-by meter reading using handheld terminals in the short term, while offering a smooth, cost-effective transition to entirely automated fixed network operation over time.
A battery-powered wireless module is connected to each water meter, enabling value-added services, storing large amounts of meter data, and responding to data and administration requests from handheld terminals or a remote server.
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The system prevents serious problems by spontaneously sending alerts over a wireless connection in case of anomalies such as leaks, backflow, vandalism, or low batteries.
The fixed network uses GSM-SMS concentrators to handle groups of up to 2000 water meters each.
Depending on the landscape, Wavenis-enabled range extenders will be installed to ensure that 100% of the nodes in each cluster are covered at the most affordable level.
A middleware application running on the utility operator's server handles two-way end-to-end communications throughout the entire network from a central location to each endpoint and intermediary node.
This project shows how the Eastern European market is ready to use technology innovations to provide new added value services for automatic meter reading.
By choosing Wavenis-based products, with their high real-time accuracy, CMC Ekocon improves the precision and efficiency of its systems while enhancing service to customers.
The new meter reading systems will provide the utility company with more regular and faster reading of all residential customer meters.
'The innovative and field-proven Coronis solution is making it possible for CMC to deploy the first large-scale AMR network in Eastern Europe with total confidence and cost-effectiveness for both mobile and fixed network applications'.
'With references like this, CMC becomes the Central and East European leader in this very promising market', says Oliver Macnic, CEO of CMC Ekocon.
'CMC Ekocon's choice of Coronis for this ground-breaking project confirms the soundness of our strategy as well as the global nature of requirements for remote metering solutions'.
'This partnership also reinforces our position as a leading supplier of robust, field-proven and cost-effective solutions in very competitive field of utility metering', adds Olivier Guilbaud, Coronis President.
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