AE Chase Energy Company has accelerated the execution of its strategic plans to position itself as a significant player in the energy industry in Africa. The firm is breaking new grounds with a partnership deal with another global brand, Hexing Electrical Company of China. This agreement between AE Chase and Hexing taps into the respective strengths of two companies that are passionate about working to tackle power distribution challenges on the continent.

This collaboration positions the two firms to support the digital transformation of power distribution companies, help their cash flow, and maximize their operational efficiency.

AMI-Advance Metering Infrastructure Background

Energy consumption trend is increasing day by day, the challenging factor that forces utility companies deal with:

Costly and inaccurate manual data collection
Power quality monitoring difficulties
Demand management
In-time tamper monitoring
New configurations

AMI platform is an excellent solution for utilities’ daily challenges when the reliability of billing data collection and security of transferring data become another concerns of utility companies.

Solution Overview

Hexing in collaboration with AE Chase AMI (Advance Metering Infrastructure) is a mature smart energy management platform interacting with different smart meters and sensors over a range of reliable communication channels (RS485/M-Bus/PLC/GPRS/3G/4G/RF/LoRa/NB-IoT/Ethernet).

Representing AMI solution includes smart meters, reliable communication modules, multi-functional data concentrators and interoperable advanced data collection system (HES). It designed based on cloud structure and supports variety of protocols including but not limited to DLMS COSEM, IDIS, IEC61968/61970 and different communications.

AMI platform actualized then settled in most of utilities’ short or long term road maps to be an appropriate structure for residential and C&I metering , Demand Side Management and smart Home applications all resulting in workable loss reduction solution.

Key Benefits