Nacka Energi, based in Stockholm, Sweden, have chosen Actaris to provide an Automatic Meter Reading solution for electricity. This will be Actaris' first project working in partnership with communications company, Vodafone Sweden.
Nacka Energi's contract award comprises 25,000 electricity metering points, including both residential and industrial metering installations. Metering points are primarily located in the south of Stockholm and represent the first such project in Sweden to exclusively utilise "point-to-point" GPRS technology for residential consumers. This implementation is to be completed by the end of 2006 and will be followed by a five-year service agreement. Such a project is set to become a reference not only for the Actaris-Vodafone Sweden partnership but also for the use of GPRS technology in AMR.
Metering regulations introduced recently in Sweden will require all meters to be read monthly by 2009, a development which has moved utilities to look towards cost-effective AMR solutions.
Nacka Energi's Managing Director H
Posted to the site on 15th June 2005
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