KT to initialize Korea’s smart energy technology in Uzbekistan. KT’s smart energy capability enters overseas expansion.

KT (CEO Hwang Chang-Gyu, www.kt.com) announced on the 11th of May that it has concluded the Advanced Electricity Metering development project with Uzbekenergo, Uzbekistan’s power authority, the value of which is about $101 million (₩1.2 billion.) The project, which is supported by the Asian Development Bank, will install smart meters, capable of remote metering, a Meter Data Management System, Customer Relationship Management, and billing system. The company plans to install the systems in one million households in Samarkand, Jejak, and Buhkara in Uzbekistan, in the next two years and four months.

Due to rapid population growth and industrial structure change, Uzbekistan’s power consumption is rising sharply. Through this project with KT, Uzbekistan will establish a large-scale smart energy infrastructure as well as attain management experience. Additionally, through effective control and management of its power usage, Uzbekistan hopes to become a central nation within the convergence ICT “Silk Road.”

Lim Tae-sung, general manager of the global project sector of KT, said “We are really pleased to announce that KT won an order to build a smart metering system in the largest overseas deal to date. This smart metering establishment project with Uzbekistan shows that smart energy, which is one of the five futuristic convergence services, has been recognized overseas. Furthermore, KT will pursue synergy between the communication and other industries in not only smart energy service, but with all of the five convergence service sectors.”

KT stated that they will use this development project as a starting point for its global establishment in the smart energy sector and in addition plans to expand its smart energy business to other Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) members in the near future.

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KT announces on the 11th on this month that it has concluded the Advanced Electricity Metering development project with Uzbekenergo, Uzbekistan’s power authority, the value of which is about $101 million (₩1.2 billion.)

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From left: Kim Yoon-je, director in charge of Europe – Africa, Lee Baek-hee, Uzbekistan overseas president, Lee Wook-heon, Korean ambassador to Uzbekistan, Lim Tae-seong, director of KT’s overseas business division, Iskandar Basidov, chairman of Uzbekenergo, Keiju Mitsuhashi, senior energy specialist to the ADB,

Picture 2: Lim Tae-seong, left, director of KT’s overseas business division with Iskandar Basitov, right, chairman of Uzbekenergo.

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[KT’s business dealings with Uzbekistan]
- 2010 to 2012, Uzbekistan’s education informatization through the Economic Development Cooperation Fund (EDCF). The AEM project is currently the second business dealing with Uzbekistan.

[Advanced Electricity Metering (AEM)]
- AEM (also known as smart meters) is a digital electronic meter that fuses power systems and IT and is a key component of smart grids. Smart meters have the ability to measure and distribute real-time two-way power consumption information through a network, allowing adjustment of consumer energy consumption.
AEM’s identify meter reading services, efficiency and consumer supply and demand patterns in detail through remote meter reading and remote control services. The new payment menu settings that will be made available from the collected data will allow efficient energy usage. This system will contribute in revitalizing the economy and will also assist in the creation of new industries that utilize data from these smart meters.

[Smart Metering System or Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI)]
- AMI is an architecture that has evolved past the one way digital meter that is AMR and is an infrastructure capable of two-way digital data communication between utility companies and the consumer, ultimately allowing the implementation of a variety of additional services.
The two-way communication capability between smart meters and utility companies allows the possibility of additional services such as overload prediction, overload control, blackout management, electric power quality monitoring and efficient power supply and demand.

*Automatic Meter Reading (AMR): A one-way communicating system that transmits meter data allowing utility companies remote access.

[Meter Data Management System (MDMS)]
- Key software that acquires, collects, analyzes, processes and converts the supply and demand meter data into information of value.
- MDMS capabilities include the acquirement, management, analysis and storage of power usage data collected from smart meters. Other capabilities include an interface capable of sharing and exchanging processed data with a variety of applications. Additionally, MDMS provides additional services to the consumer which is derived from the collected data.

[Customer Relationship Management (CRM)]
- A management system that implements segmentation of customer data to more actively manage customers.

[Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS)]
- The CIS are a group of independent nations that were members of the Soviet Union until 1991.