5. Conclusion

Electricity meters are at the heart of the debate on the liberalization of the energy market in Europe and worldwide. Most players in this deregulated market - producers, suppliers, distributors and customers - require increasingly complex functions to manage more complex pricing, record load profiles or provide remote disconnection.

All these data and actions rely on efficient communication protocols and network infrastructures and technologies adapted to the performance levels expected to connect the central information system to the metering equipment distributed at regional or national level.

This dossier does not claim to be exhaustive, but it does shed light on the communication technologies applicable in the field of electrical energy metering to meet these current and future needs.