Global demand is expected to rise to 257 million meters by 2011 with an annual growth of 4.8%.Export data is analysed by country of origin and destination and has been expanded to include the three years 2003, 2004, 2005.New information is available for two important markets; the Russian electricity, gas and water meter markets and the Chinese water metering market. A new water meter market survey data is available for the CIS countries.

A sub-metering report for water metering is now included, with a table of the incidence of metering in single houses and apartments for 31 countries. A survey of the deployment of AMR contains market sizes and forecasts for the work and for the major markets.The breakdown of meter types is provided for each sector, with information on the total installed base and forecasts of the conversion from electromechanical to electronic meters in the electricity sector.

AMR and AMM deployment continues in the USA and is being taken up in new countries, lead by Italy with the first national electricity AMM system, and Scandinavia leads the rest of Europe.China is fast taking up AMR and in 2006 announced increased production capacity and it is anticipated that China will become a major market and supplier of AMR in the next few years.China is already producing a large number of solid state meters and now India has followed suite.This report is a comprehensive study of the world market and contains demand forecasts for 184countries and detailed meter market surveys of the 15 largest markets in Europe, Asia and the Americas, comprising 805 of global meter demand.