Today, wireless technology is being used extensively in the utility industry to not only facilitate communication, but to deliver the electricity that drives our everyday devices.
Smart meters are one type of machine-to-machine (M2M) device being deployed by service providers to provide a more efficient and cost effective energy monitoring system. According to Pike Research, the entire Smart Grid market will grow to $200 billion by 2015, creating a huge market opportunity for service providers who offer M2M utility services.
From a control plane perspective, M2M services and devices, like smart meters, have unique requirements and, therefore, pose a whole host of new challenges. Amdocs' intelligent broadband controls help service providers address these challenges by:
- Providing constant, everywhere connectivity;
- Enabling time of day requirements and blocking transmissions during peak times;
- Protecting the network from potentially billions of smart M2M devices with multiple entitlement profiles; and
- Managing real-time QoS and bandwidth prioritization.
Amdocs supports over 10 million M2M devices including smart meters, providing suite of solutions that address critical M2M requirements, including secure device authentication, entitlements management, and real-time policy control.