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PAGE 16 | | REPOR T delivering on a promise Landis+Gyr helped TAURON Dystrybucja to conduct a successful pilot and delivered a full end-to-end smart metering solution, integrating meters from three different vendors. The TAURON Dystrybucja pilot was one of the first smart metering projects in Poland where interoperability played a key role in the choice of smart metering technology and supplier. Smart meter interoperability is crucial for utilities experiencing a drop in system functionality.” The in ensuring that their investment in modern energy majority of the nearly 12,000 devices in the field management solutions is future-proof. With the are Landis+Gyr meters, but it was important for the IDIS Association, Landis+Gyr and other leading customer to integrate about 1,500 meters from other manufacturers have made the promise to produce IDIS-certified manufacturers. The delivery includes these interoperable devices. Now, Landis+Gyr has Landis+Gyr data concentrators, and all devices are delivered on this promise: the successful completion managed in the Gridstream AIM smart metering ® of the pilot for Polish utility TAURON is the first smart system. metering where IDIS, certified meters from three different manufacturers are being used in the same CRUCIAL USE CASES UNDER CONTROL meter park. The total solution provides maximum benefits with Landis+Gyr meters, as all smart meter functionality According to Landis+Gyr Poland CEO Andrzej can be fully utilized at the system level. However, all Szymanski, “Achieving interoperability was the aim the most important smart metering use cases can be of this project. We were working with technology covered with any IDIS-compliant meters. “There are familiar to us from previous projects while integrating some use cases that are outside of the scope defined devices from other vendors at the same time – without by IDIS, but that doesn’t pose a problem; we have all the most important use cases and functionalities under control”, Szymanski explains. TAURON Dystrybucja had set strict criteria for the smart metering system: it needed to be a full end-to- end solution interoperable with third-party vendor