WORLDWIDE MARKET RESEARCH REPORT - CISE

EC/IST FP6 Project No 026920
Work Package: 6
Type of document: Report
Date: 20.12.2007
File name: OP_WP6_D37_V1.0.doc Version: 1.0
Title: Worldwide Market Research Report 109 / 356
AMR Cases:
Table 5-14 World AMR
Source: Metering International magazine, 2003 - AMR is becoming an International Technology
- Spokane, Washington, – June 21, 2002 – Itron Inc. (NASDAQ; ITRI), a leading
technology provider and source of knowledge to the global energy and water industries,
today issued the following information and comments about market growth and financial
performance in the wake of an analyst’s report forecasting weakness in the market for
automatic meter reading (AMR) technology.
Nosbaum said that in light of an analyst’s report issued Thursday questioning the growth of
the AMR market, as well as the sustainability of Itron’s leadership role in that market, it’s
vitally important to draw on more comprehensive and objective industry data to see what’s
really going on in the AMR market.
According to the Scott Report on AMR Deployments in North America, a leading industry
report, AMR unit shipments to utilities increased 40.2 percent from 2000 to 2001. That
follows a 26.9 percent increase from 1999 to 2000, and a 12.7 percent increase from 1998 to
1999. Some 7.7 million AMR units were shipped in 2001 compared to 5.5 million units in
2000, according to the Scott Report. “That’s a trend,” Howard Scott, author of the Scott
Report, said Thursday. “There’s no reason to believe anything is slowing down; it’s actually
speeding up.”
That trend is supported by Chartwell, a leading market research firm serving the utility
industry. In its “AMR Report 2001,” Chartwell forecasts growth in excess of 15 percent over
the next five years.