Vision & Strategy

Xemex see the following demands of the metering market

1. Power grid owners want to have meters on the wall for 10's of years
2. Communication tools tend to evolve fast, hence they must be upgradeable
3. Freedom of choice to use the most appropriate communication method required to do the job. Just replace one communication module by another (e.g. evolution from GSM to 3G), while the meter remains on the wall.
4. With integrated solutions the meter needs to be replaced, causing lots of hurdles with on-site visits and CRM related customer complaints & requests;
5. Telco provides will continue to provide backwards compatible mobile communication tools;
6. Telco providers have extensive network management tools, hence they can offer binding SLA's

Therefore Xemex believes in a

1. A modular metering concept hooked-in to or next to metering devices from leading meter suppliers.
2. Open standards like Zigbee, M-Bus or M-Bus wireless connectivity to exchange local data between electricity meter and other local meters or home area appliances.
3. GSM/GPRS, UMTS, CDMA450 or other technologies to exchange data stored in the module with central servers through standard protocols like DLMS.
4. Standardised local ports for consumer information.