2. Communication protocols for electricity metering

2.1 Applications

The liberalization of the energy market in Europe, the legislation in force in certain countries such as Scandinavia, and the concern of energy suppliers to reduce their operational costs for reading and billing their customers have led to the development of communication technologies for the automatic reading of energy metering data, both locally and remotely. However, the issues involved differ from one application segment to another.

2.1.1 Domestic segment

In the domestic...