Netinium Starts Smart Metering multi-utility Pilot with Delta

Delta NV starts first multi-utility pilot in the Netherlands by including Electricity, Gas and Water

Delta Netwerkbedrijf, Delta Comfort and Evides recently announced the start of a smart metering pilot in Nisse, Zeeland. To test Delta’s multi-utility approach, 260 homes will be fitted with gas, water and electricity meters from various vendors. Netinium® Meter Information Manager™ (MiM™) will play a key role in this pilot, acting as the central access server to securely access and manage the meters and to provide a rich set of services to support key utility processes such as billing, supplier switch and remote connect/disconnect.

This pre-NTA 8130 phase of the smart metering pilot has been designed to validate different communication technologies (including PLC and Delta’s cable network) and metering products from multiple meter vendors including Iskraemeco, Sagem, Flonidan and Actaris. The NTA 8130 is a new Dutch standard specifically designed for mass smart metering in The Netherlands and describes the minimum functionality for smart meters. It is part of the legislation regarding the mass roll-out of smart meters to every home in the Netherlands.

As a key element in this pilot Netinium® MiM™ provides the key services to install, operate and maintain the multi-vendor smart metering infrastructure and enable Delta’s business processes to securely and uniformly interact with the smart meters, irrespective of meter type and brand.

Ferry Cserép, CEO of NETINIUM® says: ‘We are thrilled to welcome Delta as the second utility in the Dutch market space to use Netinium. Our long term involvement with Nuon offered us the insight to design and develop a new and highly visionary solution that mitigates the risk of multi-vendor/multi-utility smart metering, providing the flexibility needed to cope with an ever changing landscape of legislation, technology and functionality. Netinium represents a dramatic paradigm shift in managing energy assets and customer relationships. It provides a future proof architecture that dramatically lowers IT expenses, both Capex and Opex, and enables a utility to maximize the benefits of smart metering and smart grid applications’.

Jan Dees, Project leader of Delta says: ‘We’re delighted to work with Netinium®. Delta is a true multi-utility, delivering triple play services to more then 200.000 customers. Multi-vendor multi-utility smart metering with such rich feature sets as demanded in the NTA 8130 is a real challenge. Netinium® MiM™ offers a dramatic reduction of complexity in accessing our smart metering infrastructure and enables us to service our customers from one common platform. We believe that Netinium is a crucial factor for our Pilot’.

Delta’s smart metering pilot is divided in different phases. This first phase will run through the first quarter of 2008. Following this, decisions will be made as to which meters and IT systems will be used, followed by a second testing phase. The second testing phase will also include a thorough test of the NTA requirements. Delta NV aims to start with a large-scale roll-out by the end of 2008 or early 2009, whereby each of Delta’s 200.000 domestic households will receive three new, smart meters.

Press Information:
Netinium® Netherlands (Microtask BV)
Ferry Cserep, CEO
Phone: +31 (0)75-6400333
E-mail: ferry.cserep@microtask.nl

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About Netinium
Netinium® provides state-of-the-art smart metering solutions utilities need to face today's challenges. Netinium® Meter Information Manager™ provides secure access to multi-vendor/multi-utility smart meter infrastructures. Unified vendor-agnostic services enable direct integration of smart meter functionality with utility business processes through ESB’s or SOA layers. This unique concept provides a dramatic reduction of IT-complexity and mitigates the risks utilities face with ever changing IT-landscapes, legislations and metering technologies. Netinium® provides an open, future proof solution for smart metering today and smart grids of tomorrow and offers the stability needed in an AMM environment to gain insight, reduce complexity and increase agility, allowing utilities to increase operational efficiency, enable greater control, support regulatory compliances and dramatically enhance customer services - thus improving their competitive advantage. The company was founded in 1990 and is headquartered in the Netherlands with an office in the United States. For more information please visit www.netinium.com

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