Kigen eSIM for smart meters with cellular IoT
Our cutting-edge eSIM technology is designed to reduce metering manufacturing costs and drastically address scalability challenges. Kigen’s smart meter solution enhances IoT deployments and ensures reliable data service continuity with end-to-end security, safeguarding data from chip to cloud.
Why eSIM is essential for smart metering and smart grids
As utility providers modernize their infrastructure to meet increasing demands for energy efficiency, sustainability, and real-time data management, eSIM technology is emerging as a key enabler of smart energy systems.
With built-in remote provisioning, eSIMs eliminate the need for physical SIM replacements and streamline cellular IoT connectivity across diverse, global networks. This enhances interoperability between smart meters, sensors, and control systems, allowing for seamless integration into advanced smart grid architectures.
Features and Benefits
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Smart grid innovation with eSIM OS for utility metering
Kigen’s eSIM OS delivers secure, scalable cellular IoT connectivity tailored for the needs of modern utility metering systems. With support for remote SIM provisioning, built on GSMA SGP.32, our solution simplifies connectivity management across smart meters, sensors and grid automation devices.
Download the energy transition handbook on how utilities and device manufacturers accelerate grid modernization with GSMA-aligned eSIM technology and remote lifecycle management.
You’ll learn how to:
Simplify production and reduce SKUs with In-Factory Profile Provisioning (IFPP)
Real-world grid transformation insights from Evergy and LCRA
Build resilient, multi-network fleets with automated connectivity
Leverage eSIM for AMI 2.0, DER integration, and advanced grid control
Get your energy transition handbook
eSIM enables expanded smart meter functionality with connectivity out-of-the-box
Simplifying IoT SKU Management with eSIM
Read the Itron, Sequans and Kigen white paper to achieve single global SKU manufacturing with post-production carrier flexibility, immediate device activation, and streamlined logistics that scale globally.
Fast-track smart grid rollouts with IFPP
By utilizing In-Factory Profile Provisioning (IFPP), smart meters are shipped with connectivity preloaded with operator profiles, enabling fast activation in the field. This speeds up smart grid deployments and simplifies high-volume manufacturing by reducing SKUs. Ideal for applications such as advanced metering infrastructure (AMI), distributed energy resources (DER) and distribution.
Kigen’s In-Factory Profile Provisioning (IFPP) radically simplifies the secure loading of MNO or MVNO profiles during the device fulfillment based on the deployment destination.
IFPP enables module vendors and OEMs to pre-configure IoT and M2M devices for instant out-of-the-box connectivity to the most suitable mobile operator network.
The power saving benefits of IFPP are significant for power constrained water and gas meters, especially those using Low Power Wide Area (LPWAN) technologies including NB-IoT and LTE-M.
eSIM enables manufacturers and smart grid operators to access cellular IoT connectivity to exchange energy usage data securely.
At a glance:
- Flexibility for utilities to select cost-effective connectivity for their regions
- Switch profiles means device can operate for 20+ years
- Cloud-stored remote provisioning rules can be applied remotely after rollout
