Capgemini (News - Alert), a Paris-based provider of consulting, technology and outsourcing services, has signed a contract worth about $40 million to support a comprehensive smart meter program being implemented by Consumers Energy Company in Michigan. The effort is expected to enable the utility to improve its customer service by providing more accurate billing, improving outage response, and delivering energy efficiency and cost-saving programs.
As part of the utility’s $750 million Smart Energy program, Capgemini will join two strategic providers – Liberty Lake, Washington-based meter manufacturer Itron Inc. and Waldorf, Germany-based enterprise software producer SAP (News 
- Alert) AG— in the deployment of smart metering technology, as well as related network and computing infrastructure, all of which are essential to the connection of 1.8 million electric and 600,000 gas advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) endpoints throughout Consumer Energy’s service territory. One of the nation’s largest combination utilities, Consumers Energy provides electric and natural gas service to a cumulative 6.8 million of Michigan's 10 million residents, in all 68 Lower Peninsula counties.
The program will be led by the systems integration team from Capgemini’s North America Application Services unit in collaboration with Itron and SAP. Itron will support the implementation with its cellular-based network communications solution, equipped with data collection applications and Itron’s meter data management system. SAP will provide architectural development and quality assurance professional services for the program....Read More
Edited by Blaise McNamee
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