Advanced Metering Opportunities 06-07

Table of Contents

The opportunity in advanced meters

• Definitions and benefits summary
• Who sells advanced meters?
• And who buys them?
• What are the financial and technology prospects?
• Where are the best prospects for selling advanced meters?

GlobalSmartEnergy' s Compass Points

• GSE predicts that over the next five years
• there will be five key transitions
• The advanced meter five years from now will include

The market

• What are vendors selling?
• Market sub-sectors
• Market size and growth
• Market geographies
• Market dynamics
• Market drivers
• Market enablers
• Market barriers

Customers

• Customer segments
• Customer buying patterns
• Large utility buying patterns
• Small utility buying patterns
• Commercial/industrial customer buying patterns
• Customer adoption trends

Trends in technology and applications

• Key technologies
• Metering hardware transitions and trends
• Metering communications technology
• Communications transitions
• Communications decision points
• Meter data management technology
• Meter data management trends
• Key applications
• Metering applications trends
• Key standards
• Hardware standards
• Communications standards
• Software standards

Vendors

• Vendor landscape
• Business models
• “Tier one” vendors
• “Tier two” vendors (selected)
• Emerging companies (selected)

Investment Considerations

• Evolution in exit opportunities
• Specialists are snapped up
• Consolidation
• IPO possibilities
• Selected transactions

Index of companies

Index of protocols, technologies, standards

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