About The Azalea Smart Meter

The Azalea Smart Meter from Senical has been designed to conform to the principles and requirements set down by the Electricity Retailers Association (click here for details)

It was originally created primarily to overcome one major issue in the rollout of smart metering in the UK, namely timescales. Unlike other smart meter technology, the Azalea smart meter does not require a meter decomissioning exercise as it simply replaces the domestic cutout, meaning that the existing wiring and boarding remains intact. Not only does this mean disruption to the consumer is minimised, but waste products as a result of installation are also minimised, allowing for a leaner, greener rollout of this exciting technology. Each unit can typically be installed, configured and tested in under five minutes, a huge saving on more traditional installations.

The Azalea smart meter is an extensible unit designed with flexibility in mind, all of its features can be configured remotely, including full firmware updates. It can switch from a credit to a prepayment configuration in a moment and can have prepayment units allocated remotely, allowing for a huge range of payment options, from over the counter to SMS micro payments.


	With built in RF and Bluetooth capabilities, the Azalea smart meter can also be configured to talk to a wide range of remote information display and capture devices, or any of its internal information can be configured for display on the built in full colour screen. An intuitive multi-function button entry system also ensures the consumer can easily navigate any menu structure.

The Azalea smart meter is based around the proven and reliable GPRS (mobile phone) network. Using SMS and MMS messages for day to day activities such as requesting readings, and utilising 3G data communications for firmware upgrades, keeps communication costs to a minimum and does not require the investment and ownership costs of data collector and transporter networks.

As well as the capabilities of a smart meter in a unit just the size of a mobile phone, the Azalea smart meter can also talk directly to its sister product, the RAV Automated Meter Reader from Senical. This means you can deploy smart metering capability for electricity networks, and AMR for gas networks for not much extra cost. The RAV AMR has also been designed for rapid deployment and can be installed in under a minute.

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If a full smart metering solution is too much for your needs, you might want to think about Azalea's sister product, the RAV automated meter reading solution. Click here to find out more.