 Our Mission: |
The PRIME Alliance provides a forum for the creation of an open, single specification and standard for narrowband power line for Smart Grid products and services. The mission of the Alliance is to accelerate the demand for products and services based on the worldwide standard and promote the broad adoption and use of the specification while promoting multi-vendor interoperability and compatibility with the global standard.
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To provide a forum for the creation (definition, establishment and support) of an open single specification and standard for narrowband powerline for SmartGrid products and services; |
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To accelerate the demand for products and services based on the worldwide standard through the sponsorship of the market and user education programs; |
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To encourage and to promote broad and open industry adoption and use of such specification; and |
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To promote PRIME as a global powerline standard and to promote multi-vendor interoperability for markets/equipment and compatibility under the PRIME standard. |
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| Board of Directors: |
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The Board of Directors has the power to select and remove all officers, agents and contractors, and to fix reasonable compensation thereof, to authorize and empower officers or agents to enter into contracts and other commitments on behalf of the Alliance, and to appoint and delegate responsibilities and authority to committees, officers and agents. |
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Each Principal Member has designated one (1) Director and one (1) Alternate Director to serve on the Board of Directors. Each Director and Alternate Director must be an employee, officer, director or duly authorized Representative of the Principal Member on behalf of which he or she is serving. |
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| Company |
Director (*) |
Alternate Director (*) |
| ADD |
Alfredo Sanz |
Jesus Teijeiro |
| Current Group |
Thomas Willie |
Angel Hernandez |
| Iberdrola |
Miguel A. Sanchez-Fornie |
Alberto Sendin |
| Itron |
Oscar Marquez |
Jean-Philippe Huet |
| Landis+Gyr |
Javier Jimenez |
Javier Rodriguez |
| STMicroelectronics |
Domenico M. Arrigo |
Alessandro Moscatelli |
| Texas Instruments |
Thomas Hillmann |
Olivier Monnier |
| ZIV Group |
Jose Miguel Arzuaga Canals |
Aitor Arzuaga |
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| (*) Designated in the PRIME Alliance Board of Directors Meeting held on January 25th 2012 |
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| Alliance Officers: |
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The principal officers of the Alliance shall be a President, Vice-President, Chief Financial Officer or Treasurer, and Secretary and such other officers as the Board of Directors may appoint. One person may hold two or more offices. Officers of the Alliance may be any person nominated by a Director and nothing herein shall require such individual to be a Director or an employee or duly authorized Representative of any Member of the Alliance. |
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The officers of the Alliance shall be appointed by the Board of Directors in accordance with this clause, and each officer shall hold his or her office for a term of one (1) year, or until he or she shall resign or shall be removed or his or her successor shall be elected and qualified. |
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| Elected Officers(*) |
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Company |
| President |
Miguel A. Sanchez-Fornie |
Iberdrola |
| Vicepresident |
Thomas Willie |
CURRENT |
| Treasurer/CFO |
Oscar Marquez |
Itron |
| Secretary |
Andrew Rosenstein |
CURRENT |
| Technical WG Chairman |
Inigo Berganza |
Iberdrola |
| Promotion WG Chairman |
Thomas Hillmann |
Texas Instruments |
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| (*) Elected in the PRIME Alliance Board of Directors Meeting held on January 25th 2012 |
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| Promotion Working Group: |
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Each PRIME Regular Member can join the Promotions Working Group and/or the Technical Working Group.
The Promotions Working Group is responsible for areas such as the PRIME Website, promoting PRIME at exhibitions and events, and promoting and co-ordinating PRIME efforts in standards bodies. A monthly update conference call is held that you can participate in.
Companies joining the Promotions Working group need to actively participate in at least one sub working group. Current sub working groups are:
- Management of Website enquiries
- Website Management
- Metering Europe, Amsterdam (Oct 2011)
- Promote and Co-ordinate PRIME in standards bodies
- Logo for PRIME Certified products
- Press Releases
- New Member Integration
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| Technical Working Group: |
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Each PRIME Regular Member can join the Technical Working Group and/or the Promotions Working Group.
The Technical Working group is responsible for working on the PRIME specifications and to act as the Certification task force. Companies joining the Technical Working Group may nominate a delegate to attend the meetings of each Task Force and need to remain active in their groups by regularly attending the pre-arranged conference calls.
There are currently four different Task Force:
- PHY Task Force
- MAC Task Force
- Application Task Force
- Certification Task Force
- DLMS/COSEM Profile Task Force
- WAN Task Force
As a new PRIME member, the first step is to attend a Technical Working Group Welcome Workshop – this is an online 'Welcome Workshop' introducing all aspects of the Technical working group, so that you can decide how best to be involved.
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The PRIME Alliance has recently evolved from a consortium of organizations bound together through an adhesion agreement to a full not-for-profit organization (i.e., AISBL) under Belgium law. This evolution will enable PRIME to enhance its operations, to provide a more productive collaboration platform for its members, and to accelerate the technical and certification activities.
Registered Office: avenue de la Renaissance 12/2, 1000 Brussels (Belgium). Company Registration no 0843.491.214
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