An NTA/DSMR pilot project in 2006 was followed by pre-rollout between 2009 and 2014 and a full rollout in 2016.
The project involves over 500,000 metering points with GPRS communication, an SMR5 project, and the use of a private CDMA network.
It is a Fair Meter project with a total of 2.5 million smart meters.