The demand for smart meters in China comes from the following three aspects: First, new demand, during the 12th Five-Year Plan period, China plans to install 200 million smart meters; second is to update demand, currently China's electricity meter users are about 250 million, the general electricity meter The use period is 5 years. Third, the penetration rate is improved. At present, the penetration rate of our smart meters is less than 40%, and the national penetration rate of smart meters in the future will exceed 90%.

Demand for smart meters The price of ladders is the biggest driving force for smart meter penetration. The traditional instrument and meter meter can not satisfy all the data at the critical time point of the calculation of the ladder price at the same time, and the backwardness of the measurement means has become the biggest technical obstacle to the implementation of the ladder price policy. Based on our judgment based on the urban heating system reform, we calculated the compound growth rate of the heat meter during the 12th Five-Year Plan period to reach 36.3%. An analyst at a state-owned securities company gave such a forecast.

The smart meter is equipped with a micro-processing system or can access a microcomputer intelligent instrument. It converts measurement data through electronic circuits, and stores and evaluates the logic of the data. Through a fully automated operation process, accurate measurement is obtained, as its powerful functions are used in various industries. At present, the update demand, new demand, and intelligent ratio of smart instrumentation are constantly increasing.

In addition, the development of smart grids has also driven the demand for intelligent instrumentation. The industry expects that after 2016, China’s smart grid will enter the stage of improvement and upgrading, and some old and old meters will be upgraded. It is expected that the growth of China’s smart power meter market will exceed 40% after 2016.

It can be foreseen that in the future, smart meters that are widely used in the field of industrial automation will usher in great development. The large increase in the demand for smart meters will drive the rapid development of many related industry chains. The production and research and development of core components such as chips, electrolytic capacitors, and liquid crystal displays will become key areas, and related companies such as meter maintenance and repair will also usher in good news. The rapid development of the relevant industrial chain is of great significance for the construction of smart meters and smart grids. Song Zhichen, a researcher in the energy industry at China Investment Advisors, once said. After nearly three decades of development, China's smart metering market has entered a stage of full competition. From imported brands to joint ventures and domestic brands, it provides users with more choices in different market segments and different products. . In addition, from the aspect of industrial upgrading, more and more production processes require high-precision smart meters to participate in the automatic production and automatic control processes, which provides higher requirements for the reliability and accuracy of the instruments. In addition, the requirements for ease of installation and maintenance have also gradually increased. A related person in charge of instrument and meter production for many years said in an interview with a reporter from China Electric Power.

Key components still need to be imported In recent years, the domestic instrumentation industry has greatly improved from the technical level to the performance index. For example, in the areas of large-scale equipment control systems, thermal power, nuclear power, and rail transit, domestic equipment can basically replace imported products. Yan Zengxuan, secretary general of the China Instrument Industry Association, said.

In fact, the speed of localization in some market segments is accelerating, including continuous emission monitoring systems for gas engines, monitoring systems for shale gas and oil extraction and processing, and continuous emission monitoring systems for coal-fired boilers. Occupied by Chinese companies.

Although the localization trend of the instrumentation industry is relatively good, the Honorary Chairman of the China Instrument and Meter Industry Association, Ji Jiacheng, recently reminded that the era of most companies’ production, sales, and profits continuing to maintain double-digit growth has passed. The industry has entered a relatively small number of companies and developed rapidly. Most companies have a flat or low growth rate, and about 20% of companies are losing money in the new era. At present, key components such as measurement chips still need to be imported.

The reason is that the current homogenization competition among enterprises still exists, which seriously hinders the development of the industry.

In the case of largely uniform domestic instrumentation technology, the focus of the company is always on the price, and once a project comes in, regardless of size, all companies come to 'share a share'. The originally limited profit space is even more bleak. All companies are reluctant to miss any market opportunity. This disorderly price competition phenomenon directly affects the internal development of the instrumentation industry. Yan Zeng said.

In view of this situation, he said that China's instrumentation companies should improve the quality of their products, resolve to resolve the perilous problems of domestic instrumentation stability and reliability, ensure cost-effective advantages, and actively seek to adapt to their own market areas and Only by developing space can we defend the last base area for the development of enterprises.