Over the past few years Siftware has, in amongst its other clients, worked for companies in the Smart Energy Metering sector.

An unexpected spin-off from developing backend systems to manage their metering ‘fleet’ has been becoming intimately involved with the metering hardware and how to get it to work on large-scale residential housing developments.

I would talk about the:
– Government’s proposed smart meter rollout
– kit we’ve been working with and how it differs from that specified by DECC
– basic tech concepts: Mbus, Zigee
– real-life challenges getting this stuff to work across a large developments