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:

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October 22nd, 2025:

Rahul weekly meeting? Meeting delayed, follow-up email to team sent today. — Rahul Bhargava 2025/10/28 14:10—

Stemaco and Donsun relationship? Donsun is splitting into two, with Synergy serving the global market, particularly African STS compliant hardware and a much more competitive (in terms of entrenchment and margins) Chinese domestic market. It is believed that the African market will continue to be served by Leets+Synergy. — Rahul Bhargava 2025/10/28 14:12—

EnAccess made introductions and the Emerging Markets codebase on gitlab is accessible to Glenn and Rahul, aside from EnAccess. Though, while there is no clarity on licensing and ownership, it is generally unadvisable to use the code. — Rahul Bhargava 2025/10/28 14:14—

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Pending with Inhe who are expected to furnish REIc with a NDA and contract before sharing any doucmentation, let alone code stubs for querying meters from the DCU (only 5000 series, no legacy support). Meanwhile, SteamaCo is committing to provide legacy support including code. — Rahul Bhargava 2025/10/28 14:15—

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Daniel in convinced that telemetry should not go to MicoPowerManager (MPM) directly. We need middleware like Grid Fabric's backend (GFX) from Linux Foundation. The Frontend will still be MPM conceptually with a plugin that fetches required data more at a meter-level and associate billing and customer data in MPM. Meanwhile, grid-scale telemetry (distribution by phase of three-phase distribution from inverters) data can be analyzed by custom front-ends to a stable and mature Grid Fabric backend (that is heavy and requires servers and will not fit on DCUs). — Rahul Bhargava 2025/10/28 14:20—

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Glenn has defined a XML schema that is tuples, timestamp and readings for each meter. This can be optimized and adopted if compliant with IEEE 2030.5 — Rahul Bhargava 2025/10/28 14:21—

There is an ingestion plugin by the Linux Foundation but we may need middleware to log the telemtery and then pull aggregations to MPM — Rahul Bhargava 2025/10/28 14:22—

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This is on the table with support from SteamaCo — Rahul Bhargava 2025/10/28 14:23—

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Leets is not gone and Donsun's successor is not bankrupt, as per Warren of SteamaCo. HES support expected from SteamaCo — Rahul Bhargava 2025/10/28 14:23—

Let's not talk to OEMs directly, go through SteamaCo — Rahul Bhargava 2025/10/28 14:24—

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