Customer:

Eviny is one of Norway's largest energy supply producers, which manufactures and distributes electricity to over 180,000 customers. Eviny has a great environmental commitment and says themselves that "society needs more green energy and good innovative solutions that make life easier and better for people". In addition to contributing climate-friendly energy, the company also contributes to society as it offers both free educational programs and acts as sponsors to many local sports clubs.

Eviny is a future-oriented energy company that wants to steer the leading development of climate-friendly energy and innovative infrastructure solutions. The Group is headquartered in Bergen, Norway. Eviny already has over 30 hydroelectric power plants and over 3000 kilometers of fiber networks. In addition, the company builds and operates district heating plants in Bergen. Some of the homes that Eviny supplies and supplies with electricity also offer individual metering of hot water for heating and consumption.

The Challenge:

Eviny Energitjenster has been using the M-Bus protocol for many years, but was not satisfied with the existing solution provided. It was a cumbersome system and every time changes needed to be made or meter types added, they had to go back to the supplier, which was both time consuming and very expensive. The company realised that there was a need for a new communication solution and thus began its search for a new and better solution. After discussions with several meter suppliers, they heard about us at PiiGAB. In connection with this, Øystein Kjosavik, who is an energy advisor at Eviny Energitjenster, contacted us and after that everything went very quickly.

"It was, among other things, the quick feedback and the willingness to deliver a customised solution that made the choice fall on PiiGAB. The solution we were proposed was smooth and secure, but above all user-friendly." says Øystein Kjosavik,

The Solution:

Initially, Eviny Energitjenster needed a communication solution for a project regarding individual measurement of student housing. There, values from consumption meters such as heat, water, gas and electricity meters are collected, from each individual apartment. After that, the tenant is charged his individual consumption. Eviny Energitjenster needed to make this work smoothly, efficiently and safely and we soon came up with a simple but oh so effective solution that would cover their needs, namely our M-Bus converter PiiGAB M-Bus 900 with the application QuickPost.

PiiGAB M-Bus 900 collects all values and QuickPost enables the converter itself to send the metrics to an FTP server. Eviny Energitjenster also requested a configuration application, as there are very many meters to be read and the time to configure them individually would be far too time consuming. We then developed an application that looks up all meters on the M-Bus loop and places them in the right template automatically. This saves the company a lot of time and they can also seem more self-sustaining.

Thanks to the fact that there is traceability all the way when the M-Bus protocol is used, it makes the reading more accurate and the configuration easier, this is because you can connect the meter number to the reading.

Øystein says the following about the solution; "PiiGAB M-Bus 900 is a very stable product and today we have a much greater control of the reading, it is easier to add meters and misreadings have decreased significantly. Today we are more or less completely self-sufficient and if we need help we always get good support from your distributor Autic here in Norway or from your technicians directly. We have a completely different working situation today than we had before".

After the first initial project, Eviny Energitjenster has gradually started replacing the current solutions at the other facilities. Today, Eviny Energitjenster has 65 facilities where PiiGAB M-Bus 900 serves as a reading device. At the moment, more than 5000 M-Bus meters are read, all through PiiGAB M-Bus 900, in addition, at the time of writing, four new plants are being completed with over 1300 meters spread over four converters, one of which is Norway's largest shopping center. Eviny works by the motto; "We give tomorrow new opportunities", and at PiiGAB we are very proud and happy about the opportunity to contribute to it.