This document discusses PowerCom, a provider of smart grid solutions including smart meters, meter data management systems, and prepayment and vending systems. It outlines the challenges utilities face with simple prepayment meters, describes PowerCom's portfolio of products and services, and provides an example success story of PowerCom providing an end-to-end smart metering prepayment and vending solution for a utility in Uganda that helped significantly reduce non-technical losses and improve collections.

1. Evolution of Prepayment to Smart Grid

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Agenda
Powercom - Introduction
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Challenges for Utilities
Benefits of Smart Grid
Success Stories

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PowerCom Group
End-to-end smart metering solution provider for water, gas and electricity
utilities.
Founded in 2006 with headquarters and R&D in Israel, and regional
offices in Hong Kong, India, South Africa, Australia.
Electricity solutions certified by KEMA, STS, SABS
Installation with utilities in Middle East, Africa, India, South America, and
Europe.
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#1 Choice in Smart Metering
7 years experience in proven products and services
30+ leading utilities in 25 countries
50+k subscribers on Powercom systems platforms
20+ skilled software and hardware development professionals
20 electricity products; 7 water products; 3 gas products
14 days to launch new pilot
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Smart Grid System Elements
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Home
Devices
Meters PLC Data
Concentrator
WAN Utility
Applications
Load Control
Customer Portal
Keypad (PLC/RF)
Home Gateway
1 Phase
3 Phase
CT Meters
STS GPRS/
LAN
Direct Point-to-Point Meters
Prepayment &
Vending System
Demand Response
Tampering Management
Installation Automation
Meter Info & Control

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Challenges for Utilities
Simple prepayment meters lack:
2-way communications to the meter
Detection of meter tampering
Ability to remotely update tariffs
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Utilities which purchased hundreds of thousands of simple prepaid meters
found that they failed to reduced energy theft, and therefore have left a
substantial stock of meters in their warehouse.

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Energy Fraud Management
Bringing together all the pieces
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Energy Balancing
Analyze consumption against master
meter at the output of the LV
transformer.
Smart Fraud
Management
• Real-time detection and
alarms of meter fraud
• Triggered from time of leaving
the factory
Anti-Tamper Sensors
Un-normative Consumption
Identify un-normative consumption
profiles.
Alerts Management
• Create and manages alerts
task lists.
• Automatic alert notifications to
designated staff - email/SMS

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Demand Response
Intelligent Elements to Respond in Real-Time
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Appliance Load
Control
Disconnect
non-critical
loads (e-
vehicle, air
conditioning,
hot water
boiler).
Customized
contracts
Protect Utility
Assets
Protect circuit
breakers -
disconnect
load when
transformers
/meters are
operating
above
capacity.
Load Limitation
Disconnect
only certain
customer
groups
consuming
above
remotely
defined limit.
Under-
frequency
Reacts in
<70ms to
frequency
drops by
activating a
digital output
to disconnect
certain lines.

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Mobile Money
Mobile Payment Gateway
Consumers transfer funds from mobile phone
Generates STS token and sends via SMS to customers
Point of Sale Portal
PC Based Payment Gateway
Accessed from any authorized web-enabled PC
Unlimited vendors/distributors to sell top-ups.
Supports scratch cards and Electronic vouchers
Vending Options
Expanded Vending Solutions
Point of Sale (POS) Hand-held Portable Device
Mobile Vending Terminal
Receives STS code generated by MDM.
Prints pre-paid STS token numbers.
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$ 60
credit
Meter
loaded

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Core Benefits
Expanded Smart Grid Solutions
Customer Engagement - Empowering Consumers
Renewable energy monitoring / Net Metering
Customer Portal / In Home Displays / Home Gateway
Schedule operation of appliances
Automatic alerts (low credit; consumption over budget)
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2-Way Communications – Cost Effectiviness
Dynamic PLC – plug & play; any infrastructure; 2klm+
distance; response in seconds; near 100% reliability.
GPRS or LAN option available
Installation Automation - Smart Phone App
Smart phone app records and transfers information
about the existing and new meter
Collects GIS coordinates
Monitors installer efficiency

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Core Benefits
Expanded Smart Grid SolutionsSecurityUpgradable
Flexible
Tariffs
A unique encryption overcoming illegal vending of STS tokens.
A unique key for each command, specific to a smart meter, time
period and location.
Every increase in meter credit verified with billing/vending
system.
Remotely switch Meter between post payment-prepayment.
Hot swappable plug-and-play communications module.
Add additional functionality (outage management; energy
forecasting; dynamic pricing; multi-utility gateway)
Remotely modifiable tariff structures - Time of Use (TOU),
block/step tariffs assigned on individual or customer type basis.
Ability to implement a combination of TOU and block/step-
incline tariffs.
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Success Story
End to End Smart Metering Prepayment and Vending
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Utility Profile
Privatized utility in Uganda
Challenges
High non-technical losses
Poor experience with simple prepaid
meters
Solution
Smart meters (PLC and GPRS); keypads
Meter Data Management
Mobile Money and POS Vending
Integration with billing software
Benefits
Plug & play installation
Significant improvement in collections

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Closing Summary
PowerCom
End-to-end solutions with solid
differentiators / advantages.
Reference list of installations with
proven, measurable customer benefits.
Worldwide network of partners offering
local support and know-how.
Competitively priced.
Partner with
winning team
to capitalise in
the benefits of
smart grid
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For further Information, please contact:
Joseph Wittman
VP Business Development
Tel.:+972-3-920-6005
Fax.:+972-3-649-2290
Mobile:+972-54-6888-341
Skype: yossi.wittman
E-Mail: joseph.wittman@powercom.co.il
Powercom Ltd.
11 Granit St., Petach-Tikva, Israel, 49002
Website: www.powercom.co.il
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