Landis+Gyr recognized for advanced metering infrastructure innovations

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Landis+Gyr has won the 2014 Global Frost & Sullivan Company of the Year Award for delivering innovative solutions for the advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) market.

Through constant innovations in AMI, Landis+Gyr has been delivering advanced solutions by pursuing higher energy management goals, the research agency said.

Moreover, the firm has been providing solutions that address current and future AMI needs with a comprehensive product portfolio.

This global energy management firm has been helping various utilities to improve their energy networks efficiency, reduce energy costs, aid in the sustainable use of resources and realize the full potential of the smart grid.

The Gridstream solution provided by the firm is a modular, end-to-end smart grid solution that combines metering, communications, network management, software, grid and consumer applications in a single integrated platform.

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In 2004, Bayard Capital purchased Landis+Gyr and made 14 different investments in the utility sector, putting nearly $1.2 billion in capital and developing it into a networking and communication facility.

The company reached the peak of AMI market, through technologies and capability pushed by Bayard Capital as well as the Toshiba, which owned the company since 2011.

In 2014, Landis+Gyr acquired PowerSense, a smart grid technology company, and GRIDiant, a grid connectivity technology firm.

The integration of connectivity models of GRIDiant; supervision and control systems with the optical sensor technologies of PowerSense; along with the existing portfolio of Landis+Gyr is expected bring out more next-generation products.

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On the other hand, the company exhibits a unique two-pronged approach to innovation. The first is innovation in its standard product offering, and the second is innovation in customized and tailored solutions.

This method helps the company to achieve a balance between market requirements and customer requirements.

In addition, Landis+Gyr provides optimum value to customers by enabling better price-performance ratio, meter quality and network capability.

At present, the company operates largest installed meter base of 300+ million devices in industry and has deployed 49 million fixed network advanced meters by providing managed services for 14 million endpoints.

In 2013, Landis+Gyr retained leadership of the global market (excluding China) with a 44 percent share, which is an increase of 11 percent on 2012, and more than five times the share of its closest competitor.

Sabeena Wahid
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