December, 2009
OPEN meter project presented at Metering, Billing/ CRM Europe 2009 in Barcelona

The "Metering, Billing/ CRM Europe" conference and exhibition is a great gathering – an “Agora” – of experts from all branches of the metering industry, attracting more and more visitors each year. At the conference sessions, at the exhibition booths and during the networking opportunities the latest achievements are presented and the most relevant and pressing issues are discussed and debated.

This year, the hottest issue was probably smart metering, also the subject matter of the European OPEN meter project. It is for this reason that most of the 19 consortium members of the project have been participating at the event.

The presentation of the OPEN meter project took place right in the first in-depth session following immediately the presentation about the European smart metering standardization mandate M/441, to which the OPEN meter project is an invited partner. The presentation was given by Mr. Nicolas Arcauz, Project Coordinator, Iberdrola and Mrs. Gisele Widdershoven, Technical coordinator, KEMA and it has drawn a lot of attention. In addition, project participants were also providing information to those interested.

The presentation outlined the objectives of the project, and gave an overview of the project, the content and the state of each of the six work packages, and the deliverables already available.

As summarized by the presenters, the OPEN meter project results are expected to reshape the smart metering landscape for the benefit of those who are willing to take them.

The OPEN meter project has recently appeared in Metering International magazine(download PDF full article).

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May, 2009
OPEN meter project included in the standardization mandate M/441 issued by the European Commission

The Standardization mandate M/441 (available here), issued on 12th March 2009 by the European Commission to CEN, CENELEC and ETSI, in the field of measuring instruments for the development of an open architecture for utility meters involving communication protocols enabling interoperability, is a major development in shaping the future European standards for smart metering and Advanced Metering Infrastructures.

As stipulated by the Mandate, the OPEN meter project consortium has been invited to take part in the standardization work.

The OPEN meter project consortium accepts this invitation with pleasure, as the objectives of the project - that is the development of a new, coherent set of standards based on already existing, open standards and emerging technologies, to support the needs of smart metering and Advanced Metering Infrastructures - are fully in line with the tasks set by the Standardization Mandate.

The OPEN meter project consortium is looking forward to a strong contribution to the execution of the Mandate, using the synergies between the work program of the project and the expected work program for executing the Mandate.

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March, 2009
OPEN meter project initiated its work last January 2009, coordinated by Iberdrola

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