QUNDIS CEO Volker Eck is elected to the board of OMS-Group

Since the beginning of December QUNDIS is providing a new board member to the Open Metering Standard (OMS) association: In addition to Professor Dr. Axel Sikora from Offenburg University of Applied Sciences, QUNDIS CEO Volker Eck has just been elected to the OMS executive board team. QUNDIS is not only a strong, but also an experienced voice for the common goal of the group: promote the interoperability of meters for different consumption media. All QUNDIS products such as heat meters, electronic water meters and the gateways “Q gateway 5” and “5.5 direct” are generally featuring OMS standards. When choosing QUNDIS, investors can rely on interoperable, future-orientated metering systems with long-term profitability.

OMS is an open and patent-free energy metering standard which ensures the compatibility of consumption data regardless of their energy type. Based on M-Bus-Norm, OMS also complies with the international communication standard for Home and Building KNX. Thereby OMS group works for a sustainable usage of energy and resources by giving consumers the freedom of product independence to manage their consumption not only holistically but also in a data-secure way.

Picture (from left to right): Hermann Trottler (DIEHL Metering), Prof. Dr. Axel Sikora (Hochschule Offenburg), Carsten Lorenz (Honeywell Elster), Jürgen Frech (Landis + Gyr), Andreas Bolder (METRONA Union), Wolfgang Esch (WEPTECH), Gotthard Graß (figawa) und Volker Eck (QUNDIS). Not in the picture is Heinz Lux (KNX).
Source: OMS-Group e.V.

About OMS-Group:

The OMS-Group is a 58-member strong interest group of companies from fifteen countries worldwide. With the Open Metering System (OMS) specification, the industry group has developed an open, multi-vendor, interoperable communication standard for electricity, gas, thermal energy, and water meters, as well as submetering. Smart OMS meters help save energy and support the optimal integration of fluctuating renewable energies, such as wind power or solar energy.

For more information on the OMS standard and the OMS-Group see: www.oms-group.org/en/

About QUNDIS:

QUNDIS GmbH is a subsidiary of the noventic group, and is among Germany’s most successful suppliers of metering devices and systems for the recording and billing of heat and water consumption. In Erfurt the company manufactures products such as heat cost allocators, heat meters and water meters under the label “Made in Germany”. Its customer base includes metering services, OEM partners and the housing industry. The QUNDIS systems for remote meter reading, which also include smoke alarms, are in use in over 6 million homes in over 30 countries.

For more information please see: www.QUNDIS.com