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Location：Smart meter manufacturers to transform: to provide more value-added services
Release time：2017-01-16 Browse：
At present, smart meter suppliers are trying to provide revenue through the provision of outsourcing services and smart meter analysis services, through the combination of services and products to enhance revenue.
At present, the world's major smart meter suppliers are trying to pass more value-added services, into different market segments, to explore new business models, increase the company's revenue. In addition to providing more in-depth business operations for power plants, these companies have three main directions for their development strategies.
So far, the global installation of smart meters is 226 million (excluding China). This level of large-scale popularity of the application of smart meters to achieve a commercial, direct performance is the price decline. In order to increase revenue, smart meter suppliers are trying to optimize the operation of power plants by providing outsourcing services and smart meter analysis services.
At present, the major market suppliers in the world to adopt the market strategy is divided into three categories: 1. Focus on a technology, so as to promote the application of the technology to achieve growth; 2. Increase the supply of products, so as to provide a broader range of integrated services And to achieve growth; 3. Exit the smart meter market, thus freeing up the focus on intelligent city and energy management applications.
In 2016, the power plant will spend $ 11.4 billion to deploy smart meters. These power plants naturally hope that these capital investment can bring higher operating efficiency, and smart meter suppliers to sell the analysis tool will help the power plant to achieve this goal.
In addition, meter manufacturers have begun to sell smart meter outsourcing services to power plants, this situation is more and more common. For some of the inability to carry out the internal development of smart meters, or temporarily no funds on the power plant, the service has a certain attraction. However, there is a prerequisite for such a service to be successful, that is, the regulator must first acknowledge that the operating cost of the smart meter is a normal project expense.
At present, the world's major smart meter suppliers are trying to pass more value-added services, into different market segments, to explore new business models, increase the company's revenue. In addition to providing more in-depth business operations for power plants, these companies have three main directions for their development strategies.
So far, the global installation of smart meters is 226 million (excluding China). This level of large-scale popularity of the application of smart meters to achieve a commercial, direct performance is the price decline. In order to increase revenue, smart meter suppliers are trying to optimize the operation of power plants by providing outsourcing services and smart meter analysis services.
At present, the major market suppliers in the world to adopt the market strategy is divided into three categories: 1. Focus on a technology, so as to promote the application of the technology to achieve growth; 2. Increase the supply of products, so as to provide a broader range of integrated services And to achieve growth; 3. Exit the smart meter market, thus freeing up the focus on intelligent city and energy management applications.
In 2016, the power plant will spend $ 11.4 billion to deploy smart meters. These power plants naturally hope that these capital investment can bring higher operating efficiency, and smart meter suppliers to sell the analysis tool will help the power plant to achieve this goal.
In addition, meter manufacturers have begun to sell smart meter outsourcing services to power plants, this situation is more and more common. For some of the inability to carry out the internal development of smart meters, or temporarily no funds on the power plant, the service has a certain attraction. However, there is a prerequisite for such a service to be successful, that is, the regulator must first acknowledge that the operating cost of the smart meter is a normal project expense.
