Friday, October 16, 2009

Indian Companion Specification

The Indian companion specification for DLMS COSEM is almost ready. The adoption of DLMS/COSEM and the drafting of the companion specification is a great step forward for India, in its standardization efforts. The fact that all stakeholders finally understood, appreciated and in the end supported and participated in driving the India specific standard is one of the firsts in India.

This augur's well not only for the the R APDRP programme that the government of India is implementing, but also paves the way for future technology adoption and implementation in the Indian AMR/AMI and Smart Grid space, for the mechanism that was adopted and the maturing and professionalism of the various participants makes it possible for the BIS ET 13 to move aggressively forward in more standardization in the metering and Smartgrid space.

This mode may also be adopted by the LITD 10 of BIS, for a number of standards within the Smartgrid framework needs indegenization and active debate and discussion before it can actually become an Indian standard.

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