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1)</font> [5 minutes] Logistics: Akash, (+Adam, Rajan, if available). Proposed to move meeting 30 minutes later - no objections from people on call 2) [15 minutes] Current Problem Statement: Akash, Jude, Rahul Summarizing the problem as we understand it and having the team review it. Documenting this as the top item on the wiki. Short-term problems, long-term problems, and major pain points. Jude proposal: (link): Solution The proposed solution is to establish an OpenAMI Association, a multi-stakeholder initiative that will develop, test, and promote a universal communications and interoperability standard for smart metering systems in Africa. - Should allow remote monitoring - Should allow controls (remote start/stop) Rahul: - HES is customized from the OEM by utilities, it's not proprietary ○ EU has strict guidelines on open and proprietary - Size of group is too small, need backing from large institutions (e.g. World Bank) ○ Jude: Disagree - this is a very large problem. STS was created for the same reason ○ We can promote this standard to the OEMs. AMDA and World Bank are coming to us ○ StemaCo - willing to give us keys (showed interest) - Plan for getting OEMs to participate ○ Drive demand - if the meters don't have OpenAMI certification, the minigrids won't buy ○ Use AMDA and WorldBank for leverage - Rahul: Getting keys shouldn't be hard - manufacturers have not said no yet ○ Concerned about getting large enough to drive adoption. STS was created by large multinationals - Create a reference that the minigrid developers adopt - Don: ○ Could we reach out to OEM's about Jude's idea and get feedback about this concept? Or are we saying if we create something that is certified by World Bank and AMDA they will be forced to accept our certified standard? 3) [10 minutes] Update on vendor relations: Rahul, Rajan, Jude, Michel - Any updates from Donsun, Sparkmeter, EarthSpark Leeks has started saying that Donsun is still active (inaccurate) Donsun has split into two - China and Rest-of-Worl - Asks from StemacoVP, who presented at Thursday ISV Bi-Weekly call Willing to help out ISV has a commercial relationship with them already. StemaCo is moving away from Donsun Any progress opening up DLMS Cosem yet? Glenn to follow up with this person - Warren Scott White → will contact Sam (tech lead) at Stemaco - How is AMDA doing? Are they tracking this project? - Inhemeter: Inhemeter has requested some documents, NDA, MoU to continue working with them. Do we want to continue this at this time? Michel started drafting docs if so. - Not a no, but we need a better strategy - OEMs don't want to work with our group b/c we are too small - Work through GVE? ○ They are also very small and use legacy meters only - Challenge is if we use INHE-5000 now, Inhemeter will not support the next version Glenn: - Would be great if we can create a DCU that supports DLMS Cosem and non-DLMS protocols that is compatible with edge meters - Getting backing from Stemaco for OpenAMI would be great - Can we get ISV to support the creation of OpenAMI consortium? 4) [15 minutes] Engineering development: Rahul, Glenn, Akash, Jude, Adam People with source code - Adam, Vivien, Rahul, Glenn - can you walk us through what's been read, what's pending, etc? Akash - no updates on MeshEMS still :(. Would it be useful for Cameroon lab? Energy IoT open source has requested it for January. Is there funding for hardware manufacturing? Jude - OpenAMI and other standards. Do we want to get into STS and try to replicate it for Metering/Vending? 5) [10 minutes] All: Assignments for next week / planning ahead Glenn - talk to the contact at StemaCo (Sam) → will discuss opening up DLMS protocol Don - we need to update our document for OpenAMI Continue discussion on “ISV AMI Subcomittee” whatsapp group Glenn may come to Cameroon early January
Follow-ups
Logistics - Akash will make a new email series, including Jude. Agendas will be sent 24 hrs in advance over email.
1) Any updates from the crowd – Donsun, Sparkmeter, EarthSpark current state Rahul + Daniel - SparkMeter has been “handed over” to EarthSpark after SparkMeter collapsed. Allison is the president of EarthSpark. She makes the call if/when SparkMeter becomes Open-Sourced. Vivien is the guy leading the open-source effort. Sparkmeter's operating costs are artificially very high. Sparkmeter wraps the cailin's hardware in their own protocol (SparkMeter replace the radios with their own and run custom firmware without STS; so legacy meters cannot be orchestrated by new DCUs and no one can participate on their private neighbourhood networks without matching radios and protocols). — Rahul Bhargava 2025/10/28 14:17 Worldbank M300 → project from World Bank for electricity reach 300Mill new people in africa
Things we need
Proposed solution: take the telemetry from the field, add an additional service (?) and have access to the data via the server infrastructure
4 organizational members: IEEE, EnAccess, NESL, Arila
Rahul proposal:
– EnAccess - any updates/questions/agenda topics? – Sparkmeter source code access? — Rahul/Enaccess currently have it – Akash-plan/idea to hack the SparkMeter from Sun Gate Solar Rahul has access to code base, but it's “a mess”
Jude:
2) Clarification of problem statements, both short-term and long-term. – Short term will include exit of major metering vendors – Long term will include discussion of software and hardware solutions – We can use the Cairo OpenAMI slide deck (link) to start the discussion.
Question: Should we have this be a software-only solution? – Jude, Akash
3) Hardware discussion – Utility and desires for the MeshEMS gateway – Arila, Jude, Glenn, Akash, Rahul – What if we made our own hardware?
OpenPay Go and STS - similar For talking to the edge meter (supports STS, version 2)
4) Blockers / goals for setting up Yaounde lab with Glenn's VPN hardware – Glenn, Jude, Endurance
5) ISV Funding and Project Plan Revisions – Don, Rajan, Jude
0) Recap of Oct 8th meeting for folks traveling back from Power Africa (Arila or Daniel)? (5-10 mins)
1) Akash/Jude: Power Africa Recap (5-10 mins) a. Presentation recap
b. Discussion recap / feedback session
c. Akash - will try to make a slide on this
2) Jude: Client/customer's wishlist (5-10 mins) a. Jude's thoughts on the current status of the project b. Include pivots of the direction he would like to take this
3) Inhemeter call - Jude/Michel/Akash (5 mins) a. Recap of call with Sanji from inhemeter They want a signed document before providing documentation Awaiting on the confidential agreement from Inhemeter <→ Michel F is working on this b. “Cannot support the Inhe-4000 you got from nigeria” Latest model available is the Inhemeter-5000 c. “Please give us your specs for a new order” Donsun - sales person is no longer at Donsun Donsun is now bankrupt (!) Purchased sample meters through StemaCo
Rahul - Sparkmeter Sparkmeter has custom radios, not modbus 485 Need to be on their custom neighborhood network Rahul has access to the codebase and developers → can share answers to the queries Dominant architecture in Africa Radios are working on a certain set of frequencies, these are pretty locked Seems very hard to jailbreak existing sparkmeters based on this Recommends avoid committing to jailbreaking this Maybe easier to do if we are already in contact/customers with them
Arila: Was under the impression that there is Modbus Donsun Splitting into 2 One for Africa One for rest of world? Could expect code stubs for AMI potentially Rahul → older conversations
4) Formal roles within volunteer team - Jude a. Product Manager b. Project Manager c. Administrators d. Other roles?
5) Auditing/Changing of project timeline - Akash in place of Don (cannot make it)
6) Techincal debug and setup of REI-Cameroon Lab - Glenn/Endurance/Rahul a. Summarizing status of remote access b. Setup of new hardware / VPN from Glenn
Looking forward:
Sparkmeter
What do we as OpenAMI focus on in the next 3-6 months?
Follow-ups - Rahul weekly meeting?