Open AMI

Open-Source Advanced-Metering-Infrastructure to enable minigrids for electricity access.

Note: This page is actively under construction and will be updated frequently. Last update: Akash Borde, 28 October 2025

Background:

Power Africa Conference Presentation

Linux Foundation Conference Presentation

Ongoing:

There is a weekly meeting actively discussing and shaping this project. This takes places from 6-7am US Pacific Time.

Contact Product Manager for more details: Akash Borde at borde.akash[at]gmail.com

Weekly Meeting Notes:

October 22nd, 2025:

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They want a signed document before providing documentation

Awaiting on the confidential agreement from Inhemeter ↔ Michel F is working on this “”

Latest model available is the Inhemeter-5000 “”

Donsun - sales person is no longer at Donsun

Donsun is now bankrupt (!)

Purchased sample meters through StemaCo

Rahul - Sparkmeter

Sparkmeter has custom radios, not modbus 485

Need to be on their custom neighborhood network

Rahul has access to the codebase and developers → can share answers to the queries

Dominant architecture in Africa

Radios are working on a certain set of frequencies, these are pretty locked

Seems very hard to jailbreak existing sparkmeters based on this

Recommends avoid committing to jailbreaking this

Maybe easier to do if we are already in contact/customers with them

Arila:

Was under the impression that there is Modbus

Donsun

Splitting into 2

One for Africa

One for rest of world?

Could expect code stubs for

AMI

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Rahul → older conversations

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Vivien:

Sparkmeter

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What do we as OpenAMI focus on in the next 3-6 months?

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