BelVis for metering station operators and metering service providers.

Nikola Tesla. The beginnings of modern physics. Physicists are today revealing the very building blocks of the universe; an unimaginable task without modern particle accelerators. Right at the start of the 20th century, Nikola Tesla connected a nearly completely evacuated sphere to a high amplitude, high frequency alternating current so that the remaining air molecules became electrically charged and span around inside the sphere. Tesla had developed the first prototype of a particle accelerator, a fact which remained largely unnoticed by the general public. But even physicist Ernest O. Lawrence could not have set his world-famous cyclotron in operation without the energy of the 5 million volt Tesla coil. In any case, modern physics would not have been possible without Tesla.

BelVis for distribution and retail operators “Smart metering” is one of the hot topics in the energy sector, not least due to the integrated energy and climate change package passed by the German Bundestag in summer 2008. The rapid proliferation of new technologies for precisely timed consumption metering makes sense, as only bidirectional data communication between the consumer and generator, over the entire supply chain and by all process participants, can optimise coordination between energy consumption and generation to suit market needs. Regional power plant operators may also be integrated. This provides an improved data foundation for the development of virtual power plants. And in addition to the previously limited possibilities to formation of stores, smart metering tech-nology also promises great potential to actively integrate previously rigid consumers in broad levels through tariff incentive systems and trading tools, and to move them to change their consumption behaviour through variable tariffs. The introduction of smart meters presents the energy and IT industry with an enormous challenge. KISTERS has done its homework and complemented the techno-logically leading BelVis and SODA software systems with powerful smart metering components. Metering service providers and metering station operators are reliably served by the new module package.