Smart Metering at flower auctioneers FloraHolland

FloraHolland flower auctions, market leader in the sale of horticultural products, decided to install a flexible smart metering solution, in order to be able to meter the tenants of its auction space remotely and perform energy quality tests.

FloraHolland is a cooperative of horticultural producers with six auction centres, a nationally operating intermediary organisation (FloraHolland Connect) and an import department. The company turned to Ferranti Computer Systems for automation, which goes from acquiring the metered data through to delivering the necessary data to the invoicing system.

The auction company uses Echelon Meters and Data Concentrators, which are read out via Power Line Carrier (PLC) by the MECOMS Smart Metering Communication Bus. The metered data are made available in a portal and also forwarded to the FloraHolland invoicing system. There the auction company’s staff processes the data further. Smart Metering ensures that FloraHolland works more efficiently by means of correct metered data and that it is able to provide better customer support.

The solution has a fully open infrastructure, at both hardware and software level. This kind of open solution provides an infrastructure that is easily expanded and makes it simple to make additions to the system.

Find out more on this topic in the Smart Metering Leaflet

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