As energy issues become more and more pressing, public bodies in all countries are moving to implement vast plans to rein in consumption and improve efficiency. A key element here is the rollout of "smart" or advanced metering systems for households and commercial customers, which are meant to automatically measure power consumption at the source and feed data back to the utility for processing and billing.

This IDC white paper discusses the increasing trend toward smart metering utilities and details some of the IT requirements of the mobile workforce in this new usage scenario. In this context, two cases studies are presented, helping to shed light on the challenges in selecting the right mobile computing solution, up to the solution delivered with Panasonic mobile devices.

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