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**CASE STUDY** **CASE STUDY** Bentas work with Alpha Micro to develop an AMR (Automated Meter Reading) solution
Bentas, a Turkish IT Solutions provider, was commissioned by BIS Energy, an electricity company within Turkey to design a solution which would gather information from the company’s electricity meters in order to determine energy usage throughout the country. In line with a Government directive, electricity companies are required to submit capacity usage on an hourly basis and BIS Energy required a solution to enable them to do this. As many of the electricity meters are located in rural areas, without a device which could monitor the meters remotely, data would have to be collected manually. Due to the inaccessible locations of BIS Energy’s electricity meters, using a fixed telephone line to connect the devices would not have been possible, as the network infrastructure in Turkey is still in its development stages and phone lines are few and far between. Alpha Micro recommended that GPRS be harnessed to send data from the electricity meters back to Bentas’ server for analysis.
Basing the solution on its highly successful AMC17148 Trac Monitor (Total Remote Access and Control) unit, an external GPRS modem was connected to the electricity meters via their RS232 serial ports. Utilising Alpha Micro’s solution, BIS Energy can network the electricity meters into Bentas’ computer systems, eliminating the need to dial into each meter independently, enabling Bentas to receive the data continuously or on demand.
Trac Monitor has been specifically designed for the fixed wireless market as a standalone solution for data access, control and audio transmission. The device is easy to attach to any electronic device. Using an always-on GPRS connection, the unit effortlessly connects the attached device to a host computer. As in the case with Turkey, GPRS is particularly useful in countries with a less developed telecommunications infrastructure.
Kemal Aksuyek, Managing Director of Bentas: “From our early discussions with Alpha Micro, they understood the
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complexity of this project. They went to great lengths to understand the various nuances of each of the electricity meters used by BIS Energy and provided us with a solution that exactly met our needs.