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RUVICKWATER Metering Solution Proposal

Metering Solution Proposal

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COMPANY PROFILE

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Ruvick Energy (Pty)Ltd knows as (Ruvick) is a 100% black owned business operating from Johannesburg, South Africa.

Ruvick was established in 2008 as a meter and Metering Services Company with its focus mainly in the electricity industry, operating on turnkey projects to do manufacturing, supply, install, vending and manage all the metering needs of electricity consumers. The largest targeted clients are Eskom, Municipalities, Housing estates and gated communities.

Together with our highly experienced design and R&D partners in China, Linyang Electronics, Ruvick is positioning itself to be a leader in the manufacturing and supply of electricity meters and prepaid vending operations targeted for all segments of consumers. We have also locally partnered with CZ Electronics, a contract manufacturing company where all our meters will be manufactured and repaired. Our factory and warehouse is 8000sqm in size and has the capacity to manufacture over 100 000 meters per month as our labour force is in excess of 350 highly experience employees. Through this agreement with our partners, Ruvick will be the central supply hub of this technology to the rest of the SADC countries.

Key accreditations were awarded by Eskom for compliance and the STS Association of South Africa. Other parts of our technology went under testing through the SABS and KEMA and complied with all the SANS metering requirements. Our factories both in China and South Africa are ISO 9000 and 14 000 accredited. At full operating capacity, the factory should employ an extra 300 employees on the main production line, based on the contract size and constant supply of meters.

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Founders of Ruvick Energy, Mr Victor Chipane Maleka and Mr Hymie Pedro, comes with vast experience and expertise in the metering eld, having worked for Eskom and City of Johannesburg for over 15 years combined. Mr Maleka received his passion and training for metering in Datamatic (Texas, USA), Elektromed (Istanbul, Turkey), Addax metering (Moldova, Russia), The Blue Star Meter Research Institute (China), INHEMETER Meter Institute (Shenzhen, China) and Linyang Electronics in China. He is an Electro-Mechanical engineer who always has a for energy measurement.

Mr Hymie Pedro has qualications in business and has run a successful electricity metering company having pioneered the smart metering space in South Africa with installations in Gauteng and the Southern Cape. He has a passion for business and energy measurement and is the current CEO of Ruvick Energy.

Through our years of existence, we had partnerships with Strike Technologies, Hefcom and Nyamezela Advance Metering Solutions which culminated in successes in implementation of metering hardware and services to clients such as Eskom, City Power, Emfuleni, Centlec, Mangaung, Zimbabwe electricity utility (ZESA) and Tanzania electricity utility (TANESCO) at a combined supply and installation base of over 250 000 meters. Our alliance partners are Sisimile Engineering and Phefemwaeza Engineering, both experienced in the energy management eld.

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Our current core service offerings are:

1. Smart Metering Technology AMR/AMI Smart Prepayment Smart Grids 2. Vending Solutions Automated Vending Systems Vendor management Smart Vending Solution Third Party Vending 3. Meter Installations Qualied Metering Technicians Meter Maintenance Meter Audits Protective Structures

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4. Revenue Enhancement Services Billing services Collections and Banking Credit management

Our product range coverers all segments of the electricity consumer market i.e. residential, commercial, industrial and mining. In Our latest meter offering range, we have the Keypad Smart Prepayment 3phase Energy Meter that has ability to measure KVA and KVarh. This is a powerful meter in our range and will change the way businesses are run. The meter is capable to communicate in (PLC/RF/GPRS/Zigbee), which enables it to function in AMI/AMR systems to realize automatic meter reading, remote recharge and remote control. It is one of the best choices of the smart grid devices. For revenue optimization and protection, the meters can be installed inside a mild steel protective structure to curb electricity theft.

Ruvick Energy

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WATER METER PRODUCT LINE


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LONGI METERING PRODUCTS SHOW ROOM


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CHALLENGES What challenges that municipality facing ?

• Limited vending options

• Separate vending system to water and electricity

• Leakage and tamper

• Non smart metering system for municipality to monitoring the customer behavior

• Man -made mistake


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SMART PREPAID WATER METER SOLUTION

2.1 Introduction

• LONGi offers a reliable and affordable smart prepayment vending system solution to help electricity,

water and Gas Departments to optimize the delivery and use of essential services, paving the way

for a more efcient and reliable supply;

• LONGiPower system is highly integrated and has the key features of interoperability, security and

scalability, includes full range of smart prepaid electricity ,water and gas meters, CIU/UIU, Data

Collector, software, data collection, delivery, management and analyzing;

• LONGiPower system focuses on increasing the revenue of the Water Departments and to improve

customer satisfaction ;


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2.2 System Infrastructure

Vending Channels

Data Collector

on Solar Street Light

Customer Interface Unitindoor

Water Meter

Outdoor

LORA

LORA

Cover Range: Up to 500m

GPRS



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2.3 System Infrastructure

Vending Channels

Electricity meter

on the Pole

Customer Interface Unit Indoor

Water Meter Outdoor

LORA

GPRS

SMART INTEGRATED E&W METER SOLUTION

LORA

LORA

LORA

Cover Range: Up to 500m


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2.4 Installation Environment SMART PREPAID WATER METER SOLUTION


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2.5 Highlight

• Area installation solution is a cost-efcient solution. There is only one Data Collector in one area

which cover range is up to 500 m. One Data Collector can support at least 128 pieces water meters.

Meantime, the solution can integrate the electricity meter and water meter in one system, it is easy

to manage the energy sources.

• The system is using the solar street light and the data concentrator is powered by Solar ,there is a

chargeable battery for back up power up to 20 hours.

• It is a whole wireless solution. Data Collector communicates with system via 2G/3G/4G module,

with the water meters via LORA module and CIU communicates with water meters via LORA;

• LONGiPower

is multifunctional with STS/CTS Encryption, Tax and Tariff management, Authorization,

supervision and management of vending point. Meanwhile, it is also an AMI system with remote

tariff programming, remote disconnection & reconnection, demand side management, water

balance ,data analysis functions, leak detection, event collection, user-dened report, etc;



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2.5 Highlight

• Supporting two ways to charge the water meter. Via 2G/3G/4G communication module on the DC or

Electricity meter, the system will vend to the water meter directly. And also we can punch the CIU

for charging money, it is a backup solution when the remote charging is failed. Both ways are in

order to make sure 100% charging take place at all times ;

• Easy ways to charge the water meter

Online remotely charging via DC or E-meter

Local charging through CIU

SMS charging

We guararnte100% successfully charge.



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2.5 Highlight

Charging Process


Pay money and get the Invoice with

TOKEN

Remote Charging

Local

Charging

Pay money to

the system

Send TOKEN

to the DC or

E-meter via

GPRS

Send TOKEN

to water

meter via

LORA

Key in the

TOKEN via

KeypadSend the

TOKEN via

LORA


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2.5 Highlight

• Adopts Systematic Anti -tampering solution to

prevent tampering with the meter by the

customers. The water meter will be installed in

the meter box which is mounted on the side

work, customers will not be able to touch the

meters, but can inquiry all information of the

meter via the CIU;



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2.6 Advantages

Online Solution

• All water meters are online in the system via the online Data Collector or Electricity meter. The

system reads all required data from meter on schedule and on demand at any time, and monitors all

operations of the meter online. The system will calculate the daily consumption and monthly

consumption for the bill. The system updates the tariffs and other required parameters into meters

remotely;

• Remotely controlled and charged to the meter. The system can disconnect and connect the meter

remotely. After paying, the system will charge the meter with the amount of money paid via the

communication model remotely;

• The tariff is applied in the meter at time of use. The meter can be programmed for volumetric

dispensing which will allocate a predetermined volume of water per day or month to individual

consumer.

Smart Prepaid Water Meter Solution


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2.6 Advantages More Security

• LONGiPower integrates the DLMS (Latest Version) and STS/CTS (Latest Version) together, it is triple

protection;

• st1 : use the high-level communication authorization of DLMS, multiple clients are using different

passwords and different access permissions;

• nd2 : use the communication data encryption of DLMS, it supports symmetric key algorithms and

public key algorithms to encrypt data;

• rd3 :use the TOKEN encryption of the STS/CTS



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2.6 Advantages Better management

• LONGiPower provides multi-dimensional analyses and displays the analyzed data in different forms

such as traditional report, Ad hoc reports, key business indicators panel and dashboards. It can

analyze the metering data periodically and deal with the abnormities rapidly online. It is easy to do

operations online and anywhere ;

More fair

• LONGiPower charges the currency (ZA Rands ) into the meter directly. It is very transparent to the

customers. After paying, customers can inquiry the charged money in the meter. Meanwhile, it is

easy for customers to inquiry daily consumption (ZAR) ,monthly consumption (ZAR) ,calculate and

compare .No argument.

• The consumption calculation take place at time of use which means that credits left over at the end

of the month is charged at the lower step tariff and not as per the higher step tariff when purchase

on the conventional prepaid systems. -



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2.7 Meters and CIUs

Appearance of equipments



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2.7 Meters and CIUs

Water Meter Type



Diameter Q4 Q3 Q2 Q1 Q3/Q1 Q2/Q1

DN

15

20

25

32

40

50

65

80

100

125

150

200

250

300

3m /h

3.125

5

7.87

20

20

50

78.75

125

200

250

312

500

500

787

3m /h

2.5

4

6.3

10

16

40

63.0

100

160

200

250

400

400

630

3m /h

0.040

0.064

0.100

0.160

0.256

0.640

1.008

1.600

2.560

3.200

4.000

6.400

6.400

10.080

3m /h

0.025

0.040

0.063

0.100

0.160

0.400

0.630

1.000

1.600

2.000

2.500

4.000

4.000

6.300

100

100

100

100

100

100

100

100

100

100

100

100

100

100

1.6

1.6

1.6

1.6

1.6

1.6

1.6

1.6

1.6

1.6

1.6

1.6

1.6

1.6

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2.7 Meters and CIUs

Main

Functionalities


LCD display

Large display with 5x10mm size digitsOBIS code and functional icon, easy to read

Wakeup Display

Prepayment

STS, CTS and STS6

Prepaid and Post-paid Local and remote charge Emergency credit Friendly mode Prepaid and Post-paid

Event

Strong magnetic event

Meter cover removal event Low battery event & Battery removal event

Valve control event (Disconnect and Connect) Recharge event

Up to 20 records with occurred date and time

Alarm

Alarms with LED/LCD/Buzzer On

CIU

Alarm can be configurable


ICO Function Function Icon and Description

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2.7 Meters and CIUs

Main Functionalities


ICO Function Function Icon and Description

Valve Control

Multi control mode

Local and remote load control Max power limit threshold can be configurable Valve status indicator Valve malfunction self-check

Communication

Wireless LORA International open protocol

Billing Record

Up to 13 month billing data Automatic reset

CIU/UIU unit

LCD display with backlight

Keypad

Wireless LORA Communication

Alarm with LED/LCD/Buzzer

Replaceable battery

Multi Step Tariff

Up to 12 Step tariffs

Step Price can be configurable


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2.7 Meters and CIUs Technical Specication

Description Value

Accuracy Class 2

Working Temperature 0.1℃ to +50℃

Maximum Working Pressure 1.6MPa

Pressure Loss < 0.063MPa

Static Working Current

9uA

Battery Lifetime

> 10 years (Typical)

Pulse Equivalent

0.1 m3

IP Level

IP68

LORA Cover Range

Up to 500m

LORA Core Frequency

430MHz



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2.8 LONGiPower System Architecture



Billing

SAP

CRM

FINANCE

Master Station System

DatabaseOracle, SQL Server

STS EncryptionService

Real Time Control Load Prole Billing Data

Alarm/Event Clock Synchonize Data Recall

Head-End System Vending Interface SSL

GPRS/3G/4GE-Meter

Data Collector

LORA/RF/MbusWater Meter

VendingClient

MobilePOS

rd3 Party

API

Terminal

Data Analysis

Meter

Tax & Fee

Customer

Engineering

CDU

System User

Debt

Basic Parameter

Tarrif

Report

Web

dlms

Login

Query

Customer

Balance

Vending

Report Reissue

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2.8 LONGiPower System

Brief

• The system has good interoperability and scalability, adopts the open protocol standard such as the

IEC62056 DLMS/COSEM protocol and STS/CTS standard protocol, and supports multiple database

platform such as ORACLE, SQL - Server etc;

• It is multifunctional with STS/CTS Encryption, Tax and Tariff management, Authorization, supervision

and management of vending point. Meanwhile, it is also an AMI system with remote tariff

programming, remote disconnection & reconnection, demand side management, data analysis

functions, meter event collection, user-dened report, etc;

• It is exible with a variety of optional communication solutions. Uplink channels support such as

GPRS, Ethernet, SMS, Optical Fiber, etc. Downlink channels support such as PLC, LORA, ZIGBEE,

Rs485, etc;

• It is reliable with independent operation management by branch ofce, support WEB load balancing

and database load balancing technology, data acquisition application support multi-server, unied

system management and disaster recovery switchover supported by head ofce;



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2.8 LONGiPower System System Features

• Integrated Prepayment system and post - paid AMI system;

• Enhance the level of automation management and reduce redundant investment;

• Systematic Anti-tampering: By reading fraud events and analysis metering data, tremendously

reduce the revenue loss of the utility;

• Management efciency: Providing multi-dimensional analyses and displayed the analysis result with

different forms such as traditional report, Ad hoc reports, key business indicators panel and

dashboards;

• Increase satisfaction: Analyze the metering data periodically and deal with the abnormities rapidly,

enhances the operation value of system and improves customer satisfaction;



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38 Wessels Road RivoniaJohannnesburg, 2128

+27(0) 10 593 [email protected]

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