Edelia chooses Sagem Communications for Energy control solutions

 Edelia, a subsidiary of EDF, has chosen Sagem Communications as a partner to design and make a new generation platform for remote energy management and control. In addition to tracking consumption and detecting leaks, this new solution will enable the integration of a number of services, including remote management of domestic energy.
With this innovative solution, Edelia will meet the technological challenges raised by today's various domestic energy uses, and open the way to remote management of household equipment.

To design the new platform, several key skills of Sagem Communications will be put to use : machine-to-machine communication (M2M), energy metering, or management of terminals, all areas of expertise that the company has acquired in the field of telecommunication systems.

In addition, as Sagem Communications has its own production resources, the company will manufacture the system.

"Since it was founded in 2005, Edelia has been developing its offer and extending its experience in order to meet the more and more urgent demands of energy suppliers and consumers to control the use of energy resources and remote steering of domestic equipment" stated Martine Gouriet, President of Edelia.

"The solution we are developing with Edelia teams perfectly demonstrates the synergy of the different skills that Sagem Communications possesses. We are using our basic skills, which are residential terminals, telecommunications and the manufacture of electronic products for the mass market, to meet tomorrow's requirements in the field of energy control", confirmed Eric Rieul, Director of Energy and Telecom Business Unit at Sagem Communications.

About Sagem Communications
A French, international scale, high technology company, Sagem Communications specialises in broadband communications and convergence in particular in the following areas: printing terminals, digital TV set-top boxes, broadband and residential terminals, M2M communications, energy management and telecom systems and partnerships.

The company is in a leadership position in these sectors thanks to its proven capacity for innovation. Sagem Communications aims to become a world leader in convergence and broadband terminals. With a turnover of almost 1.3 billion euros, Sagem Communications employs 6,500 people on five continents and is headquartered in Paris. The sustainable development policy commitment at Sagem Communications starts right from the product design stage. It applies to the whole of the industrial process, the eco-design in accordance with ISO standards and includes the energy consumption of the products, and is included in an ethical charter applicable to all its suppliers.

Sagem Communications won the "Service Client de l'Année 2009" (2009 Customer Service) Prize, in the Telecommunications Products category.

For more information:
www.sagem-communications.com

About Edelia
Edelia, a branch of the EDF Group, is a remote services operator specialised in tracking and measuring energy consumption. Edelia designs, develops and implements tracking, measuring and remote steering instruments for energy consumption (electricity, water, gas, renewable energies), for the residential market.

Relying on its know-how in terms of remote energy management in households and using mainly Internet technologies, Edelia supplies its corporate customers who offer remote services on the residential market with the technical solutions suited to their needs: consumer panels, remote management and remote tracking for households, supervision solution for equipment bases.

Edelia lends all of its expertise and know-how to its mission: making the home life of people easier every day while optimising resources.
www.edelia.fr

Contacts presse:
SAGEM COMMUNICATIONS
Aurore CHIQUOT
+33 1 56 21 20 98
achiquot@publicis-link-paris.com

EDELIA
i&e consultants pour EDF
Géraldine GAUTHIER/Emilie CABOUAT
+33 1 56 03 14 53
edf@i-e.fr