TI China 25 Anniversary Customer Story series: Xu Ji instrument to make the electric meter become intelligent

Xu-instrument company mainly produces single, three-phase smart meters, etc.

TI China 25 Anniversary Customer Stories Series-"The safety, stability, extensibility and openness of TI products will provide guarantee for the company's product development." The power of the whole nation to promote the smart grid, this huge policy positive is a rare opportunity for enterprise development. And TI will become our most important partner in this historic transformation process. In the past days, TI and we have developed from supplier relationship to partnership, and now we are the real strategic partnership. "------Chen Yu Instrument Company Deputy Chief Engineer

Founded in 1999, specializing in the development, manufacture and sale of various types of intelligent electric power instrumentation and metering information system, Henan Xu Relay Instrument Co., Ltd., put forward a heroic slogan: "With our products to change the way customers use electricity." However, how difficult is it to change the behavior of the user, what is the strength of the relay instrument?

The national strategy is inseparable from smart meters

Xu-instrument company mainly produces single, three-phase intelligent electric meters, digital multi-function table, intelligent concentrator, intelligent negative control terminals, intelligent transformer monitoring terminals, electrical energy Remote Terminals, electrical terminals and other types of meters and terminal equipment, at the same time, the company also combines the layered distributed DPS3000 network structure, To provide users with integrated intelligent power solutions. Xu Relay instrument Frankly speaking, advocating and building a more intelligent power network is a national strategy, for the company, this is a once-in-a-lifetime "hero" era, and Xu Ji must take this class ship.

May 21, 2009, the State Grid company in the "2009 UHV Transmission Technology International Conference" put forward a "strong smart grid" development planning. Planning proposed, will be in three stages to promote the "strong Smart Grid" construction: 2009 to 2010 for the planning pilot phase, focusing on planning, development of technical and management standards, the development of key technologies and equipment development and pilot work; 2011 to 2015 for the comprehensive construction phase, To speed up UHV power grid and urban and rural distribution network construction, 2016 to 2020 to build a unified "strong smart grid."

To build China's strong smart grid, intelligent Power Service system construction is a strong smart grid is an important part, but the current widely used mechanical meters due to networking functions and the lack of intelligence, it is difficult to adapt to the development of smart grid needs. Therefore, the application of intelligent electric Energy meter, the promotion of intelligent power management terminals, such as intelligent electrical equipment is the general trend-this is the XU-instrument to set up their own product direction. Xu Ji, Deputy chief engineer Chen Yu revealed that the area of 15 hectares of the intelligent meter Industrial park after the production, will achieve an annual output of 10 million intelligent single-phase meter, 3 million intelligent three-phase meter and 1 million types of intelligent management terminal capabilities.

Such a huge market size led to a large number of related products such as chip demand, the international chip giants poured in, which, TI (Texas Instruments) First step, timely launch of the Chinese market for products, such as the Chinese National Grid Smart meter project design intelligent metering chip CSG550, while, TI's MCU Products (MSP430), power chips, interface chips are also widely used.

Intimate service in exchange for solid cooperation

Chen Yu revealed that, since 2009, the first cooperation in a short period of two years, Xu-instrument company TI chip dosage has been more than million pieces. "At the beginning of the cooperation, both sides experienced some twists and turns. "Chen Yu does not shy away from the problems before.

June 2009, XU-instrument company using another chip company's intelligent terminal products are close to mass production, at this time to reuse TI chip design needs to take a certain risk.

"TI launched CSG550 active approach to smart meter field of positive attitude and high-quality products prompted us to resolve to try." Chen Yu said, "However, in the beginning of small shipments, the company's terminal product stability, there are some problems, we swap with TI's decision-making has some wavering." ”

Later, the support of the TI local team and sincere cooperation attitude to solve this problem. According to Chen Yu recalls, starting from June 2009 to use TI chip to October 2010 the company's products to achieve large-scale shipments, back and forth there are no less than 10 TI engineers and agents in the company and research and development personnel to jointly carry out product development.

"In order to achieve delivery on schedule, in the most tense, our engineers 24 hours uninterrupted work, TI's engineers and we eat and live together." When we work, they will work to a few points. In one months time, TI's engineers provide us with seamless personal service. Our present cooperation makes both sides feel comfortable. ”

Shuxin cooperation brings the result is, at present, the company's smart products 95% of the measurement chips are using TI's products, Xu Relay instrumentation has become the most important in the power industry, one of the VIP.

Join hands to realize enterprise transformation

Chen Yu said that the company's next development direction is to smart meters as the center, the development of a variety of smart meters based peripherals, such as smart home and other electricity products. In order to meet the national smart grid construction, the company approved the establishment of "Xuchang Intelligent Measurement (AMI) Engineering Technology Research Center", specializing in intelligent electric meters, intelligent communication Network, metrology information System, wireless communication technology research, and strive to establish a future smart grid to adapt to the general communication Network and information systems system.

The shift from providing products to system suppliers can be seen as another shift in the company's course of development, and an important part of the mission to achieve the company's "use of our intelligent products to change the way customers are using electricity".

"Of course, this puts a higher demand on the company's product development." With a wide range of product lines TI has demonstrated the willingness to strengthen cooperation, the safety, stability, extensibility and openness of TI products will provide a guarantee for the company's product development. "Chen Yu introduced that in the smart grid, TI covers products including Low-power Wireless transceiver chip, power line carrier scheme, MCU Controller, supply chip, RS485 interface chip, logic chip and many other categories, very suitable for the company's current transformation strategy."

It can be foreseen that in the next two or three years, TI to Xu Instrument Company's shipments will be from millions chip gradually to tens. "The power of the whole nation to promote the smart grid, this huge policy positive is a rare opportunity for enterprise development." And TI will become our most important partner in this historic transformation process. In the past days, TI and we have developed from supplier relationship to partnership, and now we are the real strategic partnership. Chen Yu concludes.