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Saturday, January 14, 2012

DLMS/COSEM - knowledge and information

Distributing knowledge and information about DLMS/COSEM and its applications is one of the important activities of the DLMS User Association.

Training seminars and consultations are important tools for informing existing and potential users about the specification and latest developments. They also provide feedback to us about expectations of new users and everyday experience. These events give also great networking opportunities.

Since the first pre-conference seminar given at the Metering Europe Conference and Exhibition in Amsterdam in 2002, the DLMS UA uses this opportunity each year to meet and inform its existing and potential members on the specification.

Given the growing interest from Asia in DLMS/COSEM, since 2006 we also participate on the Metering Asia events, and propose the DLMS/COSEM pre-conference seminar. The seminars held in Beijing in 2006 and in Bangkok in 2007, attracted experts not only from Asia, but from all over the world as well.

In addition, we have been invited for tailor-made training seminars. The largest event of this kind took place in Bangalore, India, in 2004, where some 150 people attended a four-day seminar and never stopped bombarding the seminar leader with questions.

In May this year, we have been invited to give a similar training course in Seoul, Korea. From this country, 13 members have joined the DLMS User Association since the strategic decision of KEPCO to use IEC 62056 DLMS/COSEM for its communicating meters. There were 42 participants on this 3-day seminar.

During these years, there were more than 300 attendees having received up-to-date, first hand information.

The next seminar is offered as a pre-conference seminar to Metering Europe to be held in Vienna, Austria on 1st October 2007. On this event, results of the PLC standardisation work will also be given (see MI 2/2007).


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