It is an interesting market that evolves in different frequencies when it comes to, technologies, data related to global customer endpoints, meter manufacturers, AMI communications vendors, systems integrators, and meter data management (MDM) vendors.
For those who are unfamiliar, a smart meter is an electronic device that records consumption of electric energy in
intervals of an hour or less and communicates that information at least daily
back to the utility for monitoring and billing.
According to a new
report from Navigant Research , there is a decline in the
rate of project deployments across North America.
The
firm has also reveals that, Aclara was the top manufacturer in terms of the
cumulative share of planned smart meters in the North American market at 28.6
percent at the end of April 2016. Itron and Landis+Gyr followed at 24.2 percent
and 23.7 percent, respectively, with Sensus and Honeywell rounding out the top
four vendors with a combined 14.0 percent share of planned smart meters.