What EURIDIS does

EURIDIS is a French non-profit association (Association Loi 1901) headquartered in Migné-Auxances, France, that promotes and standardizes communication protocols for utility metering, with a particular focus on electricity meters. The organization owns and maintains standards including IEC 62056-3-1 (formerly IEC 61142) and the EURIDIS+ profile that implements DLMS over LPWAN/LoRaWAN, and operates the corresponding conformance-testing regime for compliant products. Its public-facing presence is anchored at euridis.org.

The association brings together meter manufacturers (including Landis+Gyr, Itron, Elster, and Chint), distribution system operators and utilities (notably Enedis, which serves approximately 35 million clients in France, and Electricité de Strasbourg), and software companies. EURIDIS has run technical committees since 2003 to evolve the standard, and the IEC 62056-3-1 specification was last formally reviewed in 2000. Governance is membership-based rather than commercial, and members participate in standard-setting and conformance certification.

EURIDIS funds its activities primarily through membership entry fees of 3,000 EUR per member, supplemented by conformance-testing and related services. It has established cross-ecosystem partnerships with the DLMS User Association (through a mutual-membership arrangement covering the DLMS COSEM profile over LPWAN) and the LoRa Alliance, including a DLMS COSEM over LoRaWAN demonstration at European Utility Week 2019. In November 2019, EURIDIS launched DLMS COSEM over LoRaWAN, extending its protocol suite into low-power wide-area IoT networks.

Name

EURIDIS

Legal name

Association Euridis

Website

https://euridis.org

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Short description

EURIDIS is a French non-profit association that promotes and standardizes utility metering communication protocols — including IEC 62056-3-1 and DLMS over LoRaWAN — serving electricity meter manufacturers, utilities, and software firms through membership-based governance.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Smart Metering Standards and Protocol Certification

NAICS

Testing Laboratories and Services (541380), Regulation and Administration of Communications, Electric, Gas, and Other Utilities (92613)

SIC

Services-Membership Organizations (8600), Services-Testing Laboratories (8734)

akta.pro primary industry

Conformity Assessment, Testing, Inspection & Certification Cooperation (BPADANAD)

akta.pro secondary industry

Third-Party Certification, Code Compliance & Regulatory Inspection (ASME/API/ISO) (EUAEAHAN)

Keywords

• Smart metering protocols
• Utility communication standards
• DLMS conformance testing
• AMI interoperability
• LPWAN metering standards

Headquarters

HQ city

Migné-auxances

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Membership Fees: EURIDIS operates as a non-profit association (Loi 1901) funded through membership fees. Entry fee is 3,000 Euros payable on receipt. Members receive specifications, technical help for projects, conformance testing support, and product promotion.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

EURIDIS is a French non-profit association that owns, promotes, and maintains the EURIDIS+ communication protocol stack and the IEC 62056-3-1 utility metering standard. It delivers formal conformance testing and certification services for member organizations, enabling interoperability of smart metering devices built by manufacturers, utilities, and software vendors.

Product overview

EURIDIS is a non-profit association (Association Loi 1901) that promotes and maintains standard communication protocols for the utility metering industry. The core offering consists of the IEC 62056-3-1 field bus standard (the original EURIDIS protocol for twisted-pair meter reading) and EURIDIS+, which extends the standard to support DLMS/COSEM services over the same physical medium. The association does not manufacture products but provides technical specifications, conformance testing services, and equipment ID management to its member ecosystem of manufacturers, utilities, and software companies. A notable recent development is the implementation of DLMS COSEM over LPWAN technologies, specifically LoRaWAN, enabling wireless remote meter reading.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• EURIDIS+ Protocol Stack Communication protocol stack promoted by EURIDIS that combines the DLMS data model with LPWAN physical layers (notably LoRaWAN) for smart metering communications. It is targeted at meter manufacturers, utilities, and metering software vendors.
• IEC 62056-3-1 Field Bus Standard International utility metering communication standard (IEC 62056-3-1) maintained and promoted by EURIDIS for use by member organizations in smart metering deployments.
• EURIDIS Conformance Testing and Certification Formal conformance testing and certification service for member metering products to verify compliance with EURIDIS-promoted protocols (EURIDIS+ and IEC 62056-3-1) and ensure interoperability across multi-vendor AMI deployments.

Quantifiable outcome

• Ascending compatibility maintained across standard upgrades, including transmission rate upgrade from 1,200 bps to 9,600 bps
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers6 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

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App detail

Feature5 records

Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• DLMS UAcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerEURIDIS Association and DLMS UA have mutual membership. They work closely together to facilitate the definition of DLMS COSEM profile over LPWAN with implementation on LoRaWAN. The EURIDIS Association and DLMS UA are members one for each other, indicating a deep strategic relationship in standard development.
• LoRa AlliancecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerEURIDIS collaborates with LoRa Alliance to demonstrate the first implementation of DLMS COSEM over LoRaWAN at EUW 2019 (European Utility Week).
• OVHminorOthersOVH provides web hosting services for euridis.org website. Hosting location is 2 rue Kellermann, 59100 Roubaix, France.

Scale indicators10 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• OSGP Alliance: Alliance promoting the Open Smart Grid Protocol (OSGP) for smart metering and grid communications. Comparable as a utility-industry standards body with a conformance program and ecosystem of meter manufacturers and utilities.
• Wi-SUN Alliance: Industry alliance promoting Wi-SUN mesh networking for smart utility networks (electricity, gas, water). Direct comparable in driving interoperable communications standards for utility AMI, with overlapping members including Landis+Gyr and Itron.
• Meters and More: Industry association promoting the Meters and More open protocol for smart metering communications over PLC. Directly comparable to EURIDIS as another metering-utility-focused standards alliance driving interoperable AMI rollouts in Europe.
• DLMS User Association: International non-profit that owns the DLMS/COSEM data exchange standard for utility metering. EURIDIS and DLMS UA hold mutual memberships and jointly define DLMS COSEM profiles over LPWAN, making DLMS UA the closest functional peer to EURIDIS.
• PRIME Alliance: Alliance promoting the PRIME (Powerline Related Intelligent Metering Evolution) specification for narrowband PLC smart metering. Operates the same membership-driven, conformance-tested standards model that EURIDIS uses for its IEC 62056-3-1 bus.

Regional players

• CENELEC: European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization that harmonizes electrotechnical standards across EU/EFTA member states. A regional peer whose scope includes electrotechnical standards that can supersede or complement EURIDIS-backed IEC standards adopted at the European level.

Others

• International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC): International standards organization that ratifies IEC standards including IEC 62056-3-1, which EURIDIS originally authored. Comparable as a peer in the international electrotechnical standards ecosystem, and the ultimate publication channel for EURIDIS specifications.
• ANSI (American National Standards Institute): U.S. national standards body coordinating standards such as ANSI C12 for electricity metering. Adjacent rather than directly competing, representing the dominant North American counterpart standards ecosystem that EURIDIS does not currently target.

Broad incumbents

• LoRa Alliance: Global alliance driving the LoRaWAN LPWAN specification. EURIDIS collaborated with the LoRa Alliance on the EUW 2019 DLMS-over-LoRaWAN demo; the LoRa Alliance is a broader incumbent with much larger membership spanning many verticals beyond metering.
• Connectivity Standards Alliance (Zigbee / Matter): Alliance behind Zigbee and Matter standards for IoT and smart-energy devices. A broader incumbent in low-power mesh communications with utility-relevant programs (Zigbee Smart Energy) that compete with EURIDIS's networking scope in residential metering.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

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Funding rounds

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