Abstract
In this new edition we have expanded the coverage of the marketing profiles to review 4 new countries not previously covered and the report now contains reviews of the gas meter markets in 19 countries. The countries contained are (new countries underlined): France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, UK, Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Mexico, USA, Australia, China, India, Japan. We have also added a table of the installed bases of water meters in all gas using countries.
Market analysis and meter types
- Analysis of the installed base of water meters by type, mechanical and non-mechanical
- Demand forecasts for water meters in units and $ value annually to 2012
- Future trends of meter type and new developments in meter technology
- Analysis of metering incidence and future trends n selected regions
- A discussion of sub metering is included
Market shares
- Company mergers and consolidations
- Global shares of top seven companies
- Major new players identified, "the dark horses"
- Market leaders identified in each major markets
AMR (Automatic Meter Reading) and AIM (Advanced Infrastructure Management)
- Survey of global AMR and deployment, analysis by utility sector (electricity, gas, water)
- Future trends and deployment projections
- Major AMR suppliers identified with market share for leader
- Analysis of specific conditions for AMR in the water sector
Detailed surveys of the19 largest water meter markets, over 78% of the world market volume (France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, UK, Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Mexico, USA, Australia, China, India, Japan.)
- Number of water connections
- Incidence of metering
- Annual meter demand
- Analysis on meter type, bulk and residential
- Market trend
- AMR deployment and development
- Type approval and certification, together with significant changes which are driving market development
- Market participants
- Utility background and market characteristics
Tables and spreadsheets containing:
- Global analysis and forecasts for every market, for each of 180 countries
- Meter population and annual demand
- Market analysis by stock/balance, imports, exports and demand, for every country
- Market size and forecast for each year from 2006 to 2012 for every country, units and $ value
- Historical annual export data from 1997 to 2006 in units, total $ value and unit value
- A separate Excel file is available containing all of these tables plus an analysis of unit exports by country of origin and destination, for each year from 2003 to 2006
Meter Manufacturing Companies
- Major meter companies identified and consolidations and mergers outlined
Metrology
- Outline of global metrology institutions and standards, procedures for type approval and meter verification
- Regional details and cooperation arrangements
- Methodology changes which are driving meter market developments
Table of Contents
- Table of Tables
- Table of Figures
1. Executive Summary
- Positive displacement and velocimetric meters - electronic
- Water meter companies
- AMR - AMM
- Metrology regulations and type approval
2. Meter Population and Demand
3. Sub-metering
- Trends in water metering incidence in single family households and apartments
- Water scarcity and conservation
- Sector reform and market liberalisation
- Price structures
- Full cost recovery
- Market liberalisation
- Multiple objectives
- Demand side management
- Metering and sub-metering trends
- CIS countries
4. Meter trends
- Mechanical metering
- Domestic metering
- Non-mechanical metering
5. Demand Drivers
- New connections
- New commercial and industrial connections
- Replacement of aging meters
- Up-grading to advanced meters
- Prepayment meters
6. Market shares by company and country
7. France
- Water meters
- Water meter penetration of dwellings
- Customers
- Annual meter demand
- Meter types
- AMR
- Type approval
- Initial verification
- Inspection and re-verification
- Meter market participants
- Utility background
8. Germany
- Water meters
- Water meter penetration of dwellings
- Households
- Annual meter demand
- Meter types
- AMR
- Type approval
- Initial verification
- Inspection and re-verification
- Meter market participants
- Prices
- Utility background
9. Hungary
- Water meters
- Water meter penetration of dwellings
- Customers
- Annual meter demand
- Meter types
- AMR - AMI
- Type approval
- Initial verification
- Inspection and re-verification
- Meter market participants
- Utility Background
10. Italy
- Water meters
- Water meter penetration of dwellings
- Customers
- Annual meter demand
- Meter types
- AMR
- Type approval
- Initial verification
- Inspection and re-verification
- Meter market participants
- Utility background
11. Poland
- Water Meters
- Water meter penetration of dwellings
- Customers
- Annual meter demand
- Meter types
- AMR - AMM
- Type approval
- Initial verification
- Inspection and re-verification
- Meter market participants
- Utility background
- Utilities
- Water prices and regulation
- Foreign investment in the water and waste sector in Poland
- Private Polish participation
12. Spain
- Water meters
- Water meter penetration of dwellings
- Customers
- Annual meter demand
- Meter types
- AMR
- Type approval
- Initial verification
- Inspection and re-verification
- Meter market participants
- Utility background
13. Sweden
- Water meters
- Water meter penetration of dwellings
- Customers
- Annual meter demand
- Meter types
- AMR
- Type approval
- Initial verification
- Inspection and re-verification
- Meter market participants
- Utility background
14. Turkey
- Water meters
- Water meter penetration of dwellings
- Customers
- Annual meter demand
- Meter types
- AMR - AMI
- Type approval
- Inspection and verification
- Meter market participants
- Utility background
15. United Kingdom
- Water meters
- Water meter penetration of dwellings
- Customers
- Annual meter demand
- Meter types
- AMR
- Type approval
- Initial verification
- Re-verification and inspection
- Meter market participants
- Utility background
16. United States
- Water meters
- Water meter penetration of dwellings
- Customers
- Annual Demand
- Meter Types
- AMR
- National Standards
- Type approval and certification
- Type approval
- Meter market participants
- Utility background
17. Canada
- Water meters
- Water meter penetration of dwellings
- Customers
- Annual Meter Demand
- AMR
- Type approval and verification
- Water payment practices
- Meter market participants
- Conforming meters
- Utility background
18. Mexico
- Water meters
- Water meter penetration of dwellings
- Customers
- Annual Meter Demand
- Meter Types
- AMR
- Type approval and verification
- Meter market participants
- Utility background
19. Brazil
- Water meters
- Water meter penetration of dwellings
- Customers
- Annual meter demand
- Meter types
- AMR
- Type approval and verification
- Meter market participants
- Utility background
20. Argentina
- Water meters
- Water meter penetration of dwellings
- Customers
- Annual Demand
- Meter types
- AMR
- Type approval and certification
- Meter market participants
- Utility background
21. Australia
- Water meters
- Customers
- Annual meter demand
- Meter types
- Meter regulations
- Initial verification
- Re-verification
- Meter market participants
- Utility background
22. Japan
- Water meters
- Water meter penetration of dwellings
- Customers
- Annual meter demand
- Market factors
- Meter types
- AMR
- Type approval and verification
- Meter market participants
- Utility background
23. China
- Water meters
- Water meter penetration of dwellings
- Customers
- Annual demand
- Demand growth
- Factors affecting water meter demand
- Macro economic statistics
- Water crisis
- Parallel forecasts
- Meter types and trends
- AMR
- Type approval and verification
- Price
- Meter market participants
- Water sector background
- Municipal water supply infrastructure
- Industrial water supply infrastructure
- New Water Resource Law
- Water supply
- Water sector reform
- Municipal water price
- Foreign investment
- Imported products
24. India
- Water meters
- Residential access to piped water
- Water connections and meter penetration
- Connections in all urban India
- Annual Demand
- Meter types
- AMR
- Type approval and verification
- Meter market participants
- Utility background
- The current state of urban water provision
- Pricing of water
25. Russia
- Water meters
- Water meter penetration of dwellings
- Customers
- Annual demand
- Meter types
- AMR
- Type approval and certification
- Meter market participants
- Utility background
- The current water sector in Russia and the CIS
- Foreign water companies involved in Russia
- Russian private water companies
26. Advanced Metering
- AMR, Automatic Meter Reading
- AMI, Advanced Metering Infrastructure
- The origins and history of advanced metering
- AMR, Automatic Meter Reading
- MDMS, Meter Data Management System
- Evolution of metering technology
- Reasons for deploying advanced metering
- Regulatory direction
- Customer benefits
- Customer service
- Economic value
- Costs for AMI
- Meter Reading Technologies
- Handheld meter reading, with or without AMR
- Mobile AMR
- Fixed network AMR
- Means of fixed network communication
- RF, Radio Frequency
- Cellular
- PLC, Power Line Carrier
- Telephone / Internet
- Other means of AMR communication
- Cost benefit analysis of AMR methods of communication
- Demand response
- Deployment of AMR
- Electricity, Water or Gas
- Effect of Size
- Leading US AMR Suppliers
- Itron
- CellNet Data Systems, Inc
- Hunt Technologies Inc.
- DCSI, Distribution Control Systems Inc
- Leach Industries
- Echelon Corporation
- Other major AMR vendors
- Major US AMR manufacturers' market shares
- Some Non-US AMR Companies
27. Water meter types
- Positive displacement meters
- Velocity or velocimetric water meters
- Multi jet meters
- Turbine meters
- Woltman meters
- Compound meters
- Electromagnetic meters
28. Type Approval
- Legislation for Measuring Instruments
- Enforcement of Measuring Instrument Legislation - Legal Control
- Type Approval
- Verification and testing
- National Metrology Institutes
- Designated national laboratories
- Accredited laboratories
- Global Metrology Infrastructure
- ILAC
- OIML
- Regional metrology infrastructures
- European infrastructure
- Metrology - EUROMET
- Accreditation - EA
- Legal Metrology - WELMEC
- EU - Legislation for Measuring Instruments
- EU Controlled Measuring Instruments
- EU - MID - Measuring Instruments Directive
- The Producer' s Responsibility
- The Government' s Responsibility
- Market surveillance
- Americas infrastructure
- Metrology - SIM
- Legal Metrology
- Accreditation - IAAC
- Asia Pacific Infrastructure
- Metrology - APMP
- Accreditation - APLAC
- CIS, Central Asia Infrastructure
- COOMET, Cooperation Metrologique for Euro Asia
- African Infrastructure
- SADC
- Metrology - SADCMET
- Accreditation - SADCA
- Legal Metrology - SADCMEL
29. International Standards Bodies
- ISO Standards
30. Methodology and technical notes
- Creation and maintenance of the ABS Metering Database of statistics and market commentary
- Compilation and analysis of official statistics for creation of the installed base and to define the metrics of annual demand and projections
- Market estimation and projections using official statistics and the metrics of annual demand and projections
- Validation with known demand data and industry interviews.
- ABS Metering Database of statistics and market commentary
- Literature search
- Regulators
- Government enquiries
- Metrological Bureaux
- Trade Associations
- Socio / economic studies
- Company reports and presentations
- Statistics
- Sub-metering
- Production statistics
- Import / export statistics
- Industry interviews and discussions
- Analysis
- The stages in modelling the market
- Press
- Demand components
- Growth
- Import and export data
31. Glossary
32. Tables
Table of Tables
- Table 2.1: The installed base of water meters y region and country, 2007
- Table 7.1: Meter demand per year
- Table 8.1: Meter demand per year
- Table 9.1: Meter demand per year
- Table 10.1: Meter demand per year
- Table 11.1: Meter demand per year
- Table 12.1: Meter demand per year
- Table 13.1: Meter demand per year
- Table 14.1: Meter demand per year
- Table 15.1: Meter demand per year
- Table 16.1: Meter demand per year
- Table 17.1: Meter demand per year
- Table 17.2: Billing practices of water utilities
- Table 17.3: Meters Conforming to the Requirements of the IESO Market (Ontario)
- Table 18.1: Meter demand per year Mexico
- Table 19.1: Meter demand per year
- Table 20.1: Meter demand per year
- Table 21.1: Meter demand per year
- Table 21.2: Water utilities in Australia
- Table 22.1: Meter demand per year
- Table 22.2: Volume and prices in Japan 1995 - 1998
- Table 23.1: Meter demand per year
- Table 24.1: Meter demand per year
- Table 24.2: Water connections and meters in the big four cities of India
- Table 25.1: Meter demand per year
- Table 26.1: Approximate installed cost for AMR systems US 2006
- Table 26.2: Comparison of Manual Meter Reading , AMR and AMI
- Table 29.1: Two Main Bodies Which Determine Standards
- Table 29.2: The ISO Standards Pertaining to Water Meters
- Table 31.1: Water meter market - Production, imports exports, demand 2000 $
- Table 31.2: Water meter demand by categ ory of meter, 2005 units
- Table 31.3: Water meter demand forecasts 2005-2010, units
- Table 31.4: Water meter demand forecasts 2005-2010, 2005 $ value
- Table 31.5: Water meter exports of major countries 1997-2002, units
- Table 31.6: Water meter exports of major countries 1997-2002, value
- Table 31.7: Average water meter export price per unit
- Table 31.8: Water meter unit trade, exports from major countries, 2003, 2004, 2005 units (separate Excel database)
Table of Figures
- Figure 2.1: Population of Water Meters and Annual Demand, 2007 by Region
- Figure 3.1: Population of water meters and annual demand, 2006 by region
- Figure 3.2: Percentag e of water connections with meters in CIS countries, 1997 to 2003
- Figure 3.3: Metering penetration in sing le-family houses and apartments connected to the PWS
- Figure 5.1: Population growth and household size in the developed and developing world, 1985 to 2030
- Figure 5.2: Numbers of households by region, 1985 to 2030
- Figure 6.1: Revenue from water meter sales and other activities (electricity meters, g as meters, AMR AMI), 2005
- Figure 6.2: Water meter companies global shares
- Figure 26.1: Cost benefit analysis of AMR methods of communication
- Figure 26.2: World AMR Cumulative Installations by Region, 2000 to 2010
- Figure 26.3: Annual US demand for AMR installations in units, by utility sector, 1990 to 2006
- Figure 26.4: Installed base of AMR in the USA in units, by utility sector, 1990 to 2006
- Figure 26.5: Market shares of AMR suppliers in North America, 2007
- Figure 28.1: Regional Metrology Organisations
- Figure 28.2: Member countries of EUR AMET e.V., 2007
