eDevice launches EDELIA’s new energy management service
eDevice, a leader in M2M (Machine to Machine) solutions, announces the launch by EDELIA of a new energy management service, based on its wireless GPRS and LAN gateway technology and IDeMS middleware. The energy demand management services offered in France by EDELIA use eDevice gateways to transfer electricity, water or gas meter readings (automated meter reading) from users' homes to EDF's processing servers.
Therefore, EDELIA supplies a totally new offer of simple and innovative services that help to control and reduce electricity and water consumption. Meter reading provides detailed information on consumption with a consumer alarm service if leaks or abnormal differences in consumption are detected.
eDevice gateways record meter readings transmitted by radio from water, gas and electricity meters and then transmit them over the Internet via customers' ADSL/Cable routers or via the GPRS network. This data is then archived and transferred by IDeMS, the middleware supplied by eDevice, to EDELIA's consumption analysis servers. IDeMS also detects anomalies and carries out remote maintenance on all installed gateways.
The low cost of eDevice gateways, their usability enabling installation by the end-customer and their compatibility with GPRS networks and LANs mean that EDELIA’s can reach a broad public, while staying focused on data analysis to optimise consumption
1-Dec-2006