The second phase assessment confirms G3-PLC’s maturity and efficiency, which allows to match the level of services for data collection and alarm monitoring of GSM/GPRS, according to Sagemcom.
Enexis Smart Metering Technology director Lonneke Driessen said the company was expecting much better results than the previous tests in S-FSK PLC, when it started field trials in G3-PLC.
”We have been very positively surprised by the good results and we are quite confident for the mass rollout,” Driessen added.
The first assessment of the G3-PLC meters deployment had demonstrated robustness of the solution and its interoperability between several suppliers.
The G3-PLC technology in currently being deployed by Sagemcom in different European countries, proposing to its customers single-phase and three-phase meters and data concentrators
Sagemcom Energy & Telecom Deputy CEO Eric Rieul said, ”This illustrates the strategy of Sagemcom: We have made the choice to develop all the electricity Smart Meters technologies to answer our customers’ needs, in order to meet their expectations and to the constraints and specificities of their markets.”
