Unified IEM Meter Management is based on Echelon’s Advanced Metering Infrastructure, which comprises the components, Networked Energy Services (NES), electronic energy meters with powerline interface, and powerful data concentrators. In combination with the adaptable and expandable system solution, Unified IEM Meter Management, this open infrastructure covers a broad field of applications, which supports utilities in tackling the ever higher challenges of the liberalized energy markets.
Due to the energy market liberalization and the related changes in the legal framework conditions, distribution providers will have to face enormous challenges. One important characteristic of the new legal framework conditions is that distribution providers must be organizationally and legally separated from energy generation, transmission and trade in energy. This is intended to guarantee an EU-wide open market for electricity and gas through a non-discriminatory network access for industry, commercial and residential customers, and enhance transparency in the calculation of network access charges.
Two important preconditions for the functioning of a liberalized energy market are high-quality supply security (monitoring and control of the frequency and duration of supply interruptions, improved demand prognoses, use of renewable energies etc.) and sustainability (minimization of transmission and distribution losses, integration of decentralized power generation etc.) Only on the basis of a high-quality supply security and sustainability can future supply shortages and failures be minimized.
In liberalized energy markets the commercial success of a distribution provider can only be ensured and enhanced through an extensive optimization and automation of all business processes and the development of new business areas. This includes both Automated Meter Reading (AMR) and Automated Meter Management (AMM), which enable the companies to automate their metering activities extensively.
Unified Intelligent Energy Management (Unified IEM) forms the core of all solutions provided by ubitronix. Unified IEM Meter Management, as part of our product family, covers the whole bandwidth of Automated Meter Reading (AMR) and Automated Meter Management (AMM). Due to the expandable system architecture, it is at any time possible to expand our systems with additional modules, such as Unified IEM Street Lighting, or Unified IEM Power Quality Monitoring.
Unified IEM Meter Management offers a complete solution which complies with all requirements of the liberalized energy market, and covers all aspects of automated metering.
Utilities can take advantage of an infrastructure which is based on electronic energy, gas, water, and heat meters, powerful data integrators, and the central Unified IEM Meter Management Server Software, which is based on Echelon’s NES Software. Built on standards and modern concepts, Unified IEM Meter Management provides our customers with an adaptable and expandable infrastructure and strengthens their market position through the automation and optimization of their business processes.
