Alcatel-Lucent Collaborates with Germany's DIEHL on Smart Metering

Alcatel-Lucent has signed a collaboration agreement with DIEHL Energy Solutions, a division of DIEHL Metering. Alcatel-Lucent, which currently offers a smart metering solution, will work with DIEHL Energy Solutions to develop and market a comprehensive solution that will enable energy supply and combination utilities to provide timely, detailed consumption information to their customers thus enabling consumption-related price and more accurate billing. The goal of the cooperation agreement is the joint development and marketing of compatible products for automatic logging of energy consumption as well as the development of associated service portfolios. The companies will develop and market compatible product lines for automatic measurement data recording in the field of energy and consumption measurement.

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