MeteRSit, a SIT Group company which designs, manufactures and distributes smart gas meters, has obtained, for the Domusnext® 2.0 MMU6 domestic gas meter, Britain’s National Cyber Security Centre’s (NCSC) Commercial Product Assurance (CPA) certification.
CPA-certified products guarantee data integrity and communication security against fraud and cyber-attacks. The certification covers not only the product, but also the integrity of the company’s processes over the entire life cycle – from design and production, to field operations and end-of-life disposal.
The CPA certification completes MeteRSit’s UK market certification process, having obtained in recent weeks MID (Measuring Instruments Directive) approval from the Nederland Meetinstituut (NMi) notified body, which guarantees gas measurement accuracy, and the certification from the ZigBee Alliance, which guarantees the compliance of the communication protocol with the Smart Energy Profile 1.4 standard.
“CPA certification is required to enter the British market, one of Europe’s largest with over 23 million gas metering points and approx. 1.9 million domestic gas meter installations in 2019. Over the coming weeks, our customers will begin to test our products in the field in Great Britain” stated Federico de’ Stefani, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of SIT S.p.A. “This certification process, among the most complex and comprehensive globally, recognises the excellence of our work and the security of SIT’s products. A warm thanks – underlines de’ Stefani – goes to all the MeteRSit team members for this extraordinary result – achieving its goal on time and as announced to the market. We enter the British smart gas meter market ready to build, also in this case, a story of growth and success”.
SIT Group products – both in the Heating and Smart Gas Metering divisions – are also already compatible with the use of alternative gas sources (e.g. biomethane) in accordance with the green energy and environmental sustainability vision of the Italian multi-national headquartered in Padua – and also in view of the carbon reduction objectives of the European Union’s New Green Deal.
