Analyst Insight: Smart Metering Across Emerging Markets

Emerging smart metering markets include Eastern Europe, Asia Pacific, Latin America, and the Middle East & Africa for the purposes of this report. (North America and Western Europe are excluded due to disproportionately high smart meter penetration rates.) Unique market dynamics operate across each of the disparate regions defined as emerging markets. 

Eastern Europe remains bearish in the short term, though these sentiments might shift as late adopters come to the table. Asia Pacific is a hotbed of current and future opportunity. This massive market is showing significant growth across areas of East Asia, Southeast Asia, and Southern Asia. Latin America has struggled to galvanize its smart meter economy. Brazil and Mexico have largely led the way, though strategic initiatives are finally generating increased interest in this financially-fraught market. In the Middle East, mega-projects across Iran, Saudi Arabia, and Tunisia are buoying this smaller geographic region. However, Africa remains plagued by financial concerns that are expected to remain for the foreseeable future.

This Guidehouse Insights report analyzes utility smart meter projects across emerging markets. It tracks data related to new project announcements, global customer endpoints, meter manufacturers, advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) communications vendors, and more.