SEI Podcast – How PRIME Hybrid is solving (your) grid communication challenges (Microchip & ZIV) Alfredo Sanz Molina (Technical Fellow on Smart Energy Systems and software at Microchip Technology and Board member PRIME Alliance) and Asier Llano Domínguez (R&D Manager at ZIV Automation), explore together PRIME Hybrid solution that combines PLC and RF communication technology. The Prime...
Advanced Metering Infrastructure 2021 – Standardisation panel On February 24, 2021, PRIME Technical WG Chairman, Iñigo Berganza Valmala, participated in the Standardisation Panel and in a live Q&A session at the Advanced Metering Infrastructure 2021 on behalf of PRIME Alliance. During the panel, Mr Berganza Valmala presented how PRIME Alliance is committed to drive Standards...
ADD GRUP supplying PRIME smart meters to Lebanon by 2022 ADD Grup, together with its partner in Lebanon, ACCK& A JV, KVA s.a.l., the electricity distribution service provider, will supply more than 250 000 PRIME smart meters for Electricité du Liban (EDL) in Beirut and the Bekaa Valley. This project aims to assist EDL in the reduction of technical and non-technical losses and to...
PRIME Alliance: BPL – A new paradigm shift for utilities by Corinex – Global Energy Elites As millions of new wind and solar power generation elements – as well as millions of EVs – are integrated, new, potentially destabilising problems with the grid will arise. This is why we need a solution that smoothly integrates the fluctuating power demand, prevents blackouts...
SEI Podcast – The secret of reliable smart meter communication and standards (Arkossa & Renesas) Christos Aslanidis (Senior Principal Engineer at Renesas Electronics Europe and Board member PRIME Alliance) and Victor Domínguez (Chief Executive Officer, Arkossa Smart Solutions), both PRIME PAD Sponsors, talk about the evolution to and from PRIME v1.4 and the improved reliability, robustness and frequency coverage that the new version delivers, as well as the interoperability brought...
ADDAX AT JUSCO INDIA – ANOTHER PRIME PLC BASED SMART METERING SUCCESS STORY India is the world’s third largest producer and fourth largest consumer of electricity. Despite this the country is being mostly served with electromechanical meters or digital meters with optical port being the only communication interface. Smart metering projects are scattered across the...
550 000 ADDAX METERS TO BE DEPLOYED BY EVN BULGARIA ADD BULGARIA, ADD GRUP’s partner in Bulgaria, inked a major deal with EVN Bulgaria for the delivery of 550 000 smart electricity meters based on PRIME technology. The project will span over the next four years, with the first delivery planned till the end of...
Saiman, the largest meter manufacturer in Kazakhstan, will produce next generation software defined smart meters using Phoenix-RTOS operating system. The inherent part of Phoenix-RTOS operating system is Phoenix-PRIME – fully software defined implementation of PRIME protocol. The new meter architecture based on software and general purpose hardware gives the freedom in implementing sophisticated requirements and...
STCOMET Smart-Meter System-on-Chips from STMicroelectronics Continue to Soar. New 500kHz certifications from PRIME Alliance and additional new ICs supporting modular design confirm leading position STMicroelectronics (NYSE: STM), a global semiconductor leader servings customers across the spectrum of electronics applications, has surpassed important milestones with its STCOMET smart-meter System-on-Chip family, enabling utilities worldwide to deliver sustainable...
Phoenix Systems signed a License Agreement with ELGAMA-ELEKTRONIKA, a Lithuanian company and the leading manufacturer of static electricity meters in the Baltic region. According to the agreement, ELGAMA will obtain from Phoenix Systems a license to use Phoenix-PRIME in the new line of metering appliances for the Smart Grid market. Phoenix-PRIME is the first pure...
