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The key operational objectives of the association are to maintain the necessary infrastructure; promote the technology internationally and further develop the standard to meet emerging international demands for additional functionality. The Association ensures interoperability between system components from different manufacturers of prepayment meter and vending systems by accrediting and maintaining a list of test laboratories that ensure compliance to STS standards. It also manages the availability of encrypted vending keys to manufacturing members via its key management centres and ensures consistent use of manufacturer codes as well as meter serial numbers.

The Standard Transfer Specification is the global standard for the transfer of electricity and other utility prepayment tokens, ensuring inter-operability between system components from different manufacturers by accrediting test laboratories, issuing compliance certificates and publishing a register of STS compliant products.

The STS strives to continuously meet emerging international demands for additional functionality of prepayment systems. The latest edition of the specifications, STS Edition 2 falls in line with the Association’s major focus on innovation, introducing brand new features compatible with modern metering technologies, maintaining backward compatibility to the current systems in use, and more importantly, it enables the use of the latest state of the art cryptographic algorithms, while also introducing many new features to keep abreast with modern smart metering technologies. The specification suite allows STS-compliant equipment from any number of suppliers to be integrated into an Electricity, Water or Gas sales system.

Our core customer support platform has revolutionised utility customer management and billing capabilities.

From facilitating the world’s first dynamic time-of-use tariff to transforming customer experience, Kraken provides the building blocks to accelerate the net zero energy system and enable the next generation of energy use cases.

Combined with a pioneering operating model, Kraken empowers customer service teams to act with autonomy on behalf of customers and consistently improve cost and customer satisfaction outcomes for its licensees. Kraken currently supports over 40 million customer accounts in nine countries globally.

Our full-stack flexibility platform encompasses real-time and scale Distributed Energy Resource (DER) management and distribution network monitoring. We provide DER optimisation and control; network power quality measurement and fault detection” enabling traders, retailers, generators and system operators to manage their assets in real-time and at scale to create value by supporting the energy system. With over 50,000 DERs managed, equating to over 4.6 GW of contracted power in six countries.

These two seamlessly integrated platforms combined offer an unparalleled solution for delivering cheaper, cleaner energy and accelerating the journey to net zero.

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Schneider’s purpose is to empower all to make the most of our energy and resources, bridging progress and sustainability for all. We call this Life Is On. Our mission is to be your digital partner for Sustainability and Efficiency. We drive digital transformation by integrating world-leading process and energy technologies, endpoint to cloud connecting products, controls, software, and services, across the entire lifecycle, enabling integrated company management, for homes, buildings, data centers, infrastructure, and industries. We are the most local of global companies. We are advocates of open standards and partnership ecosystems that are passionate about our shared Meaningful Purpose, Inclusive, and Empowered values.

Siemens Smart Infrastructure (SI) is shaping the market for intelligent, adaptive infrastructure for today and the future. It addresses the pressing challenges of urbanization and climate change by connecting energy systems, buildings and industries. SI provides customers with a comprehensive end-to-end portfolio from a single source – with products, systems, solutions and services from the point of power generation all the way to consumption. With an increasingly digitalized ecosystem, it helps customers thrive and communities progress while contributing toward protecting the planet. SI creates environments that care. Siemens Smart Infrastructure has its global headquarters in Zug, Switzerland, and has around 72,000 employees world.

Powered by the research and innovation of Nokia Bell Labs, we provide leading end-to-end grid communications and analytics solutions to meet the unique mission-critical needs of power and water utilities and renewable energy. Coupled with comprehensive network consulting and professional services, we enable utilities to optimize operations and transition to new business models. Recognized as one of 2021’s “World’s Most Ethical Companies” by Ethisphere, we adhere to the highest ethical business standards as we create technology with social purpose, quality and integrity. Nokia is enabling the infrastructure for 5G and the Internet of Things to transform the human experience.

AVSystem is a global leader in Lifecycle Management solutions dedicated to the Internet of Things and Telecommunication. Present on the market since 2006, offering its solutions to various industries and verticals. “Attentive coexistence of human, environment and technology” as the company’s mission is shaping approaches in delivering solutions that help enterprises create and manage ecosystems of connected devices. AVSystem offers devices lifecycle management platforms, network management platforms, and embedded tools like Anjay SDK that enable IoT device makers to connect to a company platform. As the market leader in the IoT space, the company manages millions of devices worldwide.

Shenzhen AV-Display Co., Ltd established in 2004, is focused on providing the electronics industrial market with professional display solutions. We are designing and manufacturing a comprehensive range of display products, such as color TFT modules, CTP – Capacitive Touch Panels, monochrome LCD panels and modules, Shutters. Together with our displays, we have display controller boards, which can allow our customers to focus on their core competences and allow them to access their market faster. AVD is recognized for providing high-quality products and services to our customers. The display solutions are used in a wide range of applications worldwide, including, Industrial control, home automation, appliance, HMI, medical, metering, automotive etc. With two manufacturing locations in China, Shenzhen (HQ) and Ganzhou, we are prepared to develop products meeting our customers’ specific demand or supporting our customers with a wide selection of standard products. Our sales offices and partners are located globally, and are dedicated to being the leading display solutions company in the world.

Shenzhen CLOU Electronics Co., Ltd, a national high-tech enterprise, was founded in 1996 and listed on Shenzhen Stock Exchange in 2007. It provides core technologies and system solutions in the fields of smart grid, energy storage, new energy vehicle charging and operation, and integrated energy services. CLOU accelerates the pace of internationalisation and has provided integrated energy solutions for hundreds of countries and regions around the world with its core technology by independent innovation. As a leading company in smart electricity meters, energy storage, a pioneer in electric Internet of Things equipment, and a practitioner of the electric vehicle operating ecosystem, CLOU is committed to becoming the benchmark enterprise in the field of new energy services and a world-class energy services provider.

Since 1995, EEMB has been a leading lithium battery manufacturer, producing primary and rechargeable lithium batteries. We also provide customised battery pack solutions. With more than 400 models being UL certified, most of our products are UN compliant. EEMB lithium batteries are widely used in the application related to Internet of Things solutions, smart metering, digital devices, medical, military, tracking, security and alarm, oil and gas fields.

Energy Web is a global non-profit accelerating the clean energy transition by developing open-source technology solutions for energy systems. Our enterprise-grade solutions improve coordination across complex energy markets, unlocking the full potential of clean, distributed energy resources for businesses, grid operators, and customers. Our solutions for enterprise asset management, data exchange, and Green Proofs, our tool for registering and tracking low-carbon products, are underpinned by the Energy Web Chain, the world’s first public blockchain tailored to the energy sector. The Energy Web ecosystem comprises leading utilities, renewable energy developers, grid operators, corporate energy buyers, automotive, IoT, telecommunications leaders, and more.

Ericsson is a leading provider of Information and Communication Technology (ICT). For almost 150 years our technology and services have performed critical functions in society – enabling connections and transforming nearly every sector. Across industries like automotive, transport and energy, Ericsson is a technology partner to enterprises, connectivity providers and hyperscalers alike: simplifying connectivity and connected services in the digitalization era. As a global leader in IoT connectivity management, Ericsson is trusted by more than 9,000 enterprises to manage over 90 million connections globally.

As the pace of innovation and disruption accelerates, utilities are forced to transform quickly into digital and data-driven organizations. With Utilihive, Greenbird offers the domain-specific big data integration platform, empowering the digital utility to create sustainable value from its data and adapt quickly to changing requirements and opportunities in the market.

We accelerate the digital transformation of electricity distribution networks worldwide to deliver a new era of sustainable and reliable smart grids through innovative, flexible and customer-driven solutions that are circular by design. Reliable smart grids are key enablers of the transition to a decarbonized world. They allow for the large-scale uptake of renewable and distributed generation, such as industrial and residential photovoltaic power systems, and for the electrification of end uses. We partner with DSOs all over the world to help them advance their power distribution networks, delivering integrated, cutting edge and sustainable smart grid solutions to make energy infrastructure fit to meet the evolving needs of grid users and electricity end customers. Our solutions provide benefits for the entire electric ecosystem.

Founded in 1991, Hangzhou Innover Technology Co., LTD. (INNOVER), is a national high-tech enterprise introduced by Hangzhou. Located in Binjiang District, Hangzhou City, INNOVER is evolving into an intelligent, safe and efficient public utility solution and service provider. It is the first listed company engaged in the R&D and production of intelligent gas meter and management system in China.

ISTEK Industrial Spacetek, known as one of the world’s leading latching relay designers and suppliers, has devoted itself to ‘Customisation’ over the last decade. We firmly believe that the needs of each customer are different. We also believe that meeting customer needs will eventually benefit the enterprise itself. Therefore, we regard “Customisation” and “Service” as our core strategies, and strive to create more value for customers by offering them cost-effective and top-quality green products and personalised services. Our key customers are mainly from USA, Canada, and Europe. We are one of the first companies in the world to have TÜV-certified UC4 (IEC62052-31:2015) rated latching relay products.

LAISON is a comprehensive high-tech enterprise integrated with Research and Development (R&D), production, marketing and professional after sales support service, focusing on the smart water/gas meter solutions and management systems. With the advantage of Internet of Things (IoT) and Big Data technology, LAISON has built a Comprehensive Meter Data Management System (MDM). The LAISON smart metering solutions include GPRS/NB-IoT/LoRaWAN, smart STS prepaid Water/Gas Meter, Ultrasonic Water Meter, pipe network monitoring, water leakage detection, etc.. LAISON is committed to be the Global IoT Products and Data Service Provider. To date, LAISON has already established cooperation with water companies in more than 28 countries such as Egypt, South Africa, Nigeria, Angola, Malawi, Zambia, Mozambique, Togo, India, Indonesia, etc. With the unremitting efforts, LAISON has become the Chinese benchmark in the international smart water meter market, leading the smart prepaid water meter industry.

This is one of the smart water meters: Prepaid water meter with AMR solution. The way is a good solution for the African water market. It can be based on Multijet or Piston water meter and adopt STS technology according to the standard Standard Transfer Specification Association in South Africa issued. On communication, we use Lora for transferring data back to the system. The meter is working on saving non-revenue water by prepayment water bills. Prepayment is combined with valve control and credit overdraft. Both process and humanization are taken into consideration. The water company can customize the measurement accuracy, revenue method, price scheme, data statistics content and related control configuration.

At Palantir, we build software that empowers organizations to effectively integrate their data, decisions and operations. Our software is currently deployed in more than 50 industries and helps power decisions in some of the most complex and regulated data environments in the world. Palantir partners with utilities across the globe to modernize the grid, reduce risk, improve safety, and adapt to changing demand and production patterns.