Kamstrup Radio Mesh Smart Metering System Approved by Polish Energy Provider TAURON

June 4, 2012 - PRLog -- One of the major Polish energy companies, Tauron, with 4 million electricity metering points tested Kamstrup’s RF system for 14 days in the city of Częstochowa. The requirement was 100 % success rate per day. The system was able to fulfill the customer’s key demands.

Director of TAURON Dystrybucja S.A., Dariusz Jeziorny, says: “We are seeking a cost efficient system which is able to deliver satisfactory meter reading results on a daily basis. And when rolling out a full scale system for all our customers, the performance will be our main demand. With these impressive results from the field test and being familiar with Kamstrup technology, we definitely see the Kamstrup system as one of the candidates to be used for a massive rollout.”

Jarosław Woytowicz, Country Sales Manager from Kamstrup Sp. z o.o., explains how RF is able to prevail: “Our Radio Mesh Network operates independently of power lines and is therefore uninfluenced by disturbances in the grid. This is the main reason for our system’s high performance. Power cables are simply a very hard environment for communication signals, and in future the grid will be loaded with the consumption of even more electric devices like electric vehicles and electrically driven heat pumps. A well functioning Smart Grid will require a never failing metering system providing real time-data. The safe and robust system is the wireless system.”

The successful result in Częstochowa is in line with other RF field tests and completed projects around the world.

More information:
Jarosław Woytowicz, Country Sales Manager, Kamstrup Sp. z o.o.
+48225771107
JWO@kamstrup.pl

About Kamstrup
Kamstrup A/S serves energy companies and utilities with metering solutions for electricity, heat, cooling water and natural gas. Our solutions include Smart Grid applications, Smart Metering systems, energy meters and water meters. Today almost 8,000,000 energy and water meters from Kamstrup are installed in homes worldwide securing fair billing and an efficient use of energy. Kamstrup A/S was founded in 1946 and is a 100 % Danish company that today has representations in more than 50 countries.

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Tel: (+48) 22 577 11 00
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