by Rebecca Walker — October 14, 2009—Alcatel-Lucent has 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 both respond to economic pressure from stakeholders and regulators for greater asset efficiency as well as reducing their environmental impact.
The Alcatel-Lucent end-to-end approach will enable Stadtwerke Pasewalk to ensure that it is in accordance with the upcoming European Union’s rules which will require consumption-dependent billing of gas, electricity and water as of the January 1, 2010. It will also give Stadtwerke Pasewalk customers an instrument with which they can monitor their own energy consumption in real time and optimize it accordingly.
Alcatel-Lucent service package benefits from the know-how of its partners: Vodafone Germany, DIEHL Energy Solutions and SIV AG with its 100 percent 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, while DIEHL Energy Solutions will deliver the smart meter and systems solutions plus attached services. The SIV AG is providing their ERP system kVASy, which is used for billing by the Stadtwerke Pasewalk as well as for services of UTIPS GmbH, and which will be linked to the Alcatel-Lucent components.
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