Edelia, an eDF subsidiary, launches a new service for energy consumers based on eDevice’s Wireless M-Bus LAN and GPRS gateways and IDeMS, its middleware for device fleet management. Services for energy control proposed in France by edelia use eDgate which allows the transfer of electricity, water, and gas meter counter readings (automatic meter reading) from consumer homes to eDF’s processing servers.

Edelia provides in this way an original offer for simple and innovative services that help to control and cut the consumption of electricity and water. Automatic meter readings provide detailed information on consumption with a consumer alarm service in cases of detected leak or of abnormal consumption discrepancies.

eDevice gateways record data sent over radio from water, gas, and electricity meters and send the data over the Internet through clients’ ADSL routers or over a GPRS network. This information is then stored and transferred by IDeMS, the middleware provided by eDevice, to edelia consumption analysis servers. IDeMS also ensures detection of any anomalies from any of the installed gateways.

“The low price of eDevice gateways, their ease of usage allowing installation by the end-user and their compatibility with GPRS and LAN networks permit us to target a broad public whilst staying focused on analysis of information for optimisation of energy consumption” says Jacques Allard , President of edelia.