Nekstron Control And Automation is committed to participate in the journey of developing world class Advanced Meter Infrastructure (AMI) solutions. Nekstron facilitates System Integrators, utilities and meter reading companies by offering solutions for various components of AMI such as HES for Electric and Gas Meters and corresponding MDM, Billing Applications with Pre-Payment features, protocol stack for developing HES and meter reading mobile applications as per
IS16444.
Products
HES Client Libraries & Server Stack
Nekstron have successfully developed indigenous IS15959-2 and IS16444 based Meter Server Protocol Stack and also Client Libraries for the companies who wants to develop their own HES and other Smart Meter Reading Applications.
Features and benefits of our Client side Libraries for HES:
- Ideal for companies developing their own HES for participation in AMI tenders in India
- Includes all use cases as per IS16444 for RF and GPRS Smart meters with standard API’s
- Supports uses cases for Pre & Post payment, Billing, Tariff, and Meter Reading
- Supports use cases for Bi-directional and Net-Metering and Meter configurations
- Supports firmware update with resume facility
- HES Application can be coded in any platform such as Java, Python, Golang, .Netcore
- Our associate partners have already achieved REC certification based on this library
- Very efficient in CPU, RAM and Secondary Memory utilization
- Library is developed in ANSI C and is Platform independent
- Allows seamless API integration with HES Application
- Highly Scalable (up to 2 to 3 million meters)
Features and benefits of our Meter Server Stack:
- Type Tested certified as per IS15959-2 and IS16444 (GPRS & RF)e
- Platform Independent Stack
- Takes very less RAM and ROM of controller
- Successfully ported and delivered on NXP controllers
HES & MDM
Head End System:
- Developed with service-oriented distributed architecture
- Supports PULL and PUSH use cases as per IS16444
- Connectivity support for GPRS, NBIoT and LoraWan Meters
- Supports TCP and UDP based packets.
- Supports Bi-directional, Net-Metering and profile-based Firmware Update
- Built on Linux Platform with SOA (Micro services based)
- Supports standard API like REST and Kafka for MDM interfacing
- Supports complex Data Validation, Estimation, and Editing (VEE)
- Scalable of 2 to 3 million meters with Kubernetes containers
- Can be used to achieve REC certification of Smart meters under RDSS scheme.
- Modular and flexible architecture which can also be used for Gas and Water meter HES.
- Also supports MQTT based client module (scalable micro-service) for various MQTT based
Electric and Gas meters PUSH use cases.
MDM and Billing Application:
- Asset Management, Inventory management & Logging functionality.
- Connect to HES using REST APIs
- User Friendly UI
- Manual on demand and schedulers based Meter Reading
- Profile based selection of Image Files for Meter FW Updates
- Features of triggering meter configurations like TOU setting, Relay ON/OFF etc.
- Secured with HTTPS security
- Built in NMS, Data Archiving, Statistics and Reporting
- Data Analytics on Meter connectivity and various other parameters
- Billing Application is equipped with Pre-Payment functionality
- Can be used to achieve REC certification of Smart Meters under RDSS scheme
Automated Test Suit
Introducing our new product Smart Meter Assisted Testing Toolkit, which is developed by us with several years of learning of real time testing challenges faced by meter manufacturers and meter
reading facilitating companies for mass meters reading. This test toolkit helps specifically in managing multiple meters download, data collection and perform data analysis for multifamily
meters.
It is built keeping meter manufacturer and system integrators in mind helping them handle real scenarios before and after installation in the field. A meter manufacturer or System Integrator should use this product to identify most common and recurring issues which in turn enable appropriate corrective action.
- Eliminates manual testing of Smart Meters thus saves cost.
- Ideally suited for meter manufacturer or System Integrators for use before in field Meter installation to reduce post installation meter rejection percentage
- Helps to test and monitor installed assets for operational parameters
- Assisted testing reduces manual intervention and in field actions saving costs, efforts
- Supports extensive PULL and PUSH test cases for GPRS Smart Meters
- Ensures compliance to IS16444
- Uses MySQL Database
- Data Analytics on GPRS connectivity (with automatic PING), Response Timeouts, Retry Mechanism, RTC corruption, KWH, KVA, MD jump, reasons of failed retrieval of DL/BL,
PUSH failures and many more - Supports 4K simultaneous connections on GPRS and one connection on Optical Port
Android Application for meters
- Meters are read using Andriod Application.
- Mobile can be connected to meter using WIFI/GPRS
- Support for reading the meter using Mobile’s Blue Tooth
Services
Support
- We support our clients in developing Smart Meters as per various Indian Standards like IS15959 (Part 1 & 2)
- Smart Meter Standard IS16444.
- Solutions for achieving REC Certification under RDSS Scheme
- Android Applications for Smart Meters
- Billing and Pre-Payment Applications
- Pre-Payment Meters solutions
- MDM & Billing Application with HTTPS, User Friendly UI and Pre-Payment functionality
- Solutions for Electric Vehicle Charge Points
Research & Development
- Third Party Application development on Smart Grid and Smart Metering solutions
- Data Analytics and Energy Optimization
- Embedded Applications design and development for Internet of Things
Consultancy
- Consultancy services for Smart Metering and Wireless
- Solutions (Wi-Fi, GPRS, RF, BT etc)
- Corporate Trainings