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Do you need a proven, cost-effective, and modernised modular solution for your smart metering Application which requires low R&D investments? Then a Radiocrafts world-leading Wireless M-Bus module is the solution for you!

We are successfully working with many established companies in the Smart Metering industry. You could be our next partner! Just a few examples include: 

Radiocrafts’ Long Experience and Expertise in Smart Metering

Radiocrafts participated in the first pilots in 2010 with more than 100k units in Germany. Our modules now power the first BSI-certified Smart Meter Gateways to meet the requirements for secure communication. Furthermore, large deployments of water meters in France are now using the Radiocrafts WIZE protocol modules operating at 169 MHz.

Similarly, Radiocrafts offers RF modules operating at 433 MHz (for New Zealand, Australia, Middle-East, and Latin America), 865 MHz (for India), 868 MHz (for Russia), and 915/923 MHz (for the USA, Canada, and other regions) for non-European deployments.

Equally important, Radiocrafts also offers design services to customize a solution for easy integration into Smart Meters. For example, we have extensive experience in high-quality radio communication, battery power management and antenna design. Radiocrafts is working with several leading meter manufactures to provide tailored solution based on Wireless M-Bus and WIZE.

Radiocrafts’ Solution For Smart Metering – Wireless M-Bus

When designing a Smart Meter Communication System, there are many considerations that must be taken into account, such as:

• The radio communication protocol should be compliant to standards (Wireless M-Bus, OMS, Wize) as well as local radio regulations (such as RED or FCC part 15).
• When implementing the radio communication part of the meter, the R&D investment (both time and money) must be taken into consideration.
• The lifetime of the Smart Meter, and in particular its battery, must last for 10 – 15 – 20 years.
• Finally, choose a technology and operational frequency that is suitable for the planned installation. There are many competing radio technologies contending for Smart Metering. Therefore, you need to make sure you use a technology that was developed for this particular use case in mind.

Certainly, the fastest way to demonstrate technical compliance in a tender bid without large up-front investments, is to use a well proven module solution.

As a result, Radiocrafts’ Wireless M-Bus modules will guarantee that the solution is accepted in the market, is well proven, reliable and secure, using the best industrial practices to meet Smart Metering requirements.

Radiocrafts has an impressive portfolio of Wireless M-Bus modules for Smart Metering applications which will ensure standard-compliance, the flexibility to choose between different modes and frequency bands, save you a lot of R&D investment, will take you fast to market, and are proven in quality.

Our portfolio includes:

1. State-of-the-art OMS4 compliant Wireless M-Bus module, MBUS5, released in February 2024, is built on a modern System-on-Chip platform supporting market-leading Wireless M-Bus performance including:

• Excellent packet reception performance
• Superior interference immunity
• High transmit power
• Ultra-low power consumption
• And is fully customizable

With the modular firmware design, it offers a perfect platform for turn-key projects. This could include added application-oriented features or other HW solutions.

We are now ready to ship an early release variant of the MBUS5 module to selected alpha customers as development kits with the RC1883-MBUS5 module. The early release will be upgradeable with future releases coming during the first half of 2024. The MBUS5 module first release currently supports basic Wireless M-Bus functionality such as sending and receiving T/C mode packet. Contact us at sales@radiocrafts.com for more information.

2. Standard OMS compliant Wireless M-Bus modules which are frequently used in Metering applications, particularly in Europe.

3. Ultra-narrowband, 169 MHz radios for best noise resilience, penetration properties, and range for meters installed in hard-to-reach places.

4. The Wize module variant is based on the Wireless M-Bus mode N (169 MHz). Furthermore, it is specially designed for deployments where the gas meter / water meter /sensors are located in hard-to-reach places. Namely, it is intended for smart metering, public lighting, energy management of buildings, smart mobility, etc.

5. The challenging response time requirements in Wireless M-Bus (time between receiving a message, until transmitting the response), demands a special solution to handle two-way communication between a gateway and multiple meters. Radiocrafts has developed a patented solution for this challenge as the only provider in the world. This unique patented technology using a mailbox and pre-cooked messages ensures that two-way communication can be handled with a large number of meters all using individual encryption keys.

6. Application specific Wireless M-Bus modules such as our MPC1 module for pulse counting, alarm supervision, and transmission scheduling.

7. MSM modules with intelligent sensor interfaces.

8. We also offer customization of the modules to integrate other sub-systems for high-volume business. In addition, we can offer turn-key solutions including antenna and PCB design. All of these services reduce the R&D efforts for our customer and will also save costs in BoM due to higher integration.

Low power for battery operations and high-level security to meet the meter-market requirements have always been key considerations for Wireless M-Bus. Subsequently, this makes Wireless M-Bus an ideal solution for the metering application but also any Industrial application that needs a secure, robust and low-power wireless connection.

Radiocrafts’ Wireless M-Bus modules conform to CE (RED), and are pre-assessed for global operation in different frequency bands. Additionally, Radiocrafts provides Wireless M-Bus development tools which enable the customer to evaluate our products and quickly develop new applications. As a result, the tools provide a cost effective and exceptionally fast way of creating a fully functional wireless network.

Support Tools For Wireless M-Bus

We recommend that you buy a Wireless M-Bus Development Kit in your early stage product evaluation. The development kits are designed to be easy to use and to very quickly support a wireless link or network, where you can make a good analysis of the network performance. 

You can buy the Wireless M-Bus Development kit from:

• Digi-Key
• Or from a distribution partner in your country.

Read more about our Wireless M-Bus solutions here.

Read our extensive documentation on Wireless M-Bus, including datasheets, User Manuals, Development Kit documentation, Application Notes and more, here.

Download Software Tools for Wireless M-Bus here.

Watch tutorial videos on Wireless M-Bus here.