Smart Gas Meters
Advanced Metering Infrastructure for the Gas Grid: Growth Drivers, Business Models, Technology Issues, Key Industry Players and Market Forecasts
The global gas utility market will follow in the footsteps of the electric smart grid industry in updating networks, communications, metering devices, pilots, and ultimately deployments. The smart gas grid will implement many of the same devices as the smart electricity grid, integrating advanced communications with energy measurement to drive greater operational efficiencies for gas utilities as well as reduced energy consumption. In North America, one key driver for the smart gas grid will be major combo-utilities (electric and gas) whose decision making processes will trickle down from their electric advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) deployments. The ability for a combo-utility to participate in submetering – the process where a gas module sends signals to an electricity meter – will further ignite the gas AMI market. Additionally, the combo-utilities receiving stimulus funds for smart grid deployments will act as first-movers, stimulating gas AMI revenues. ( http://www.bharatbook.com/detail.asp?id=146331&rt=Smart-Gas-Meters.html )
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