Landis+Gyr

Landis+Gyr is an international manufacturer and supplier of advanced metering products.

It operates within the UK's utilities and energy sectors. These are dominated by the big six energy retailers including British Gas, Powergen, SSE, Npower, Scottish Power and EDF.

The sector remains under a constant media spotlight and public gaze due to escalating energy prices and mounting interest in carbon emissions.

The utilities and energy sectors are populated by a diverse range of retailers/suppliers, consultants, trade organisations, QUANGOS, parliamentary groups and environmentalist.

In the UK, its Ampy Metering subsidiary specialises in developing smart metering technology.

The technology is designed to increase householder knowledge of energy usage to promote efficiency in the UK's domestic sector.

Ampy Metering has invested £10 million in developing a range of smart meters. The meters communicate directly with energy retailers and provide householders with live, accurate data about their energy usage in kWh, monetary and carbon emissions terms.

Ampy is supplying smart meters to three of four Government trials that will test the technology in more than 15,000 UK homes by the end of 2009.