Siemens Receives Frost & Sullivan's 2025 Europe, Middle East, and Africa Company of the Year Award for Excellence in Smart Water Meter Data Management

Siemens sets the benchmark in innovation and customer impact, helping utilities digitalize their operations and improve sustainable water management across EMEA

SAN ANTONIO, July 2, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Frost & Sullivan is pleased to announce that Siemens has been awarded the 2025 Europe, Middle East, and Africa Company of the Year Award in the smart water meter data management (MDM) industry for its outstanding achievements in digital innovation, operational efficiency, and customer impact. This recognition highlights Siemens's leadership in delivering intelligent, scalable, and vendor-agnostic water MDM solutions that help utilities optimize operations, engage customers, and support long-term sustainability.

Frost & Sullivan evaluates companies through a rigorous benchmarking process across two core dimensions: visionary innovation and customer impact. Siemens excelled in both, demonstrating its ability to align innovative smart water MDM solutions with real-world utility challenges while executing them at scale. "Siemens has strategically transformed MDM from a back-office billing tool to a front-line enabler of data-driven water management," said Fredrick Royan, vice president of research at Frost & Sullivan. "Its Gridscale X Meter Data Management platform brings together high-frequency data capture, AI-powered insights, and flexible deployment models—setting a new benchmark for utility digitalization."

Guided by a long-term growth strategy centered on digital transformation and regional partnerships, Siemens has demonstrated its ability to navigate complex markets and sales cycles. The company's investment in cloud-based SaaS infrastructure, regulatory-compliant cybersecurity, and machine learning for anomaly detection has empowered utilities across EMEA to adopt next-generation MDM at scale.

Innovation lies at the core of Siemens's value proposition. Gridscale X Meter Data Management, formerly known as EnergyIP® MDM, serves as a central hub for real-time data processing, high-accuracy billing, and customer engagement. With capabilities such as non-revenue water analysis, low-flow detection, and integrated customer portals, the platform turns raw meter data into actionable intelligence.

Siemens's unwavering commitment to customer experience further strengthens its market position. By offering utilities flexible deployment models—from on-premises to SaaS—Siemens meets diverse operational needs while minimizing IT complexity. Its intuitive interface, automated VEE processes, and integration with AMI Head-End Systems and CIS platforms streamline operations and improve customer outcomes. Notably, Siemens has achieved 99.9% data accuracy and reduced daily operational task completion times by 85% for utilities leveraging its MDM system.

Frost & Sullivan commends Siemens for setting a high standard in competitive strategy, execution, and market responsiveness. The company's deep domain expertise, multi-commodity integration capabilities, and strong customer support model are helping utilities modernize infrastructure, minimize losses, and increase consumer transparency—cementing Siemens's leadership in the smart water MDM market.

Each year, Frost & Sullivan presents the Company of the Year Award to a company that demonstrates outstanding strategy development and implementation, resulting in measurable improvements in market share, customer satisfaction, and competitive positioning. The award recognizes forward-thinking organizations that are reshaping their industries through innovation and growth excellence.

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Siemens Receives Frost & Sullivan's 2025 Europe, Middle East, and Africa Company of the Year Award for Excellence in Smart Water Meter Data Management

GUANGZHOU, China, Jan. 11, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Recently, GAC's independently developed Quark E-Drive power domain control system has achieved the world's first dual certification for deeply integrated ASIL D functional safety and information security, accredited by DAkkS, Germany's national accreditation body. The certification was evaluated and issued by SGS-CSTC Standards Technical Services Co., Ltd. (SGS), a globally recognized certification authority.

ISO 26262 is the internationally recognized core standard for automotive functional safety. Within this framework, ASIL D represents the highest automotive safety integrity level, requiring near-zero tolerance for safety-critical failures. Achieving an ASIL D certification accredited by DAkkS signifies that the certified product meets the highest globally accepted standards for automotive safety.

The certified Quark E-Drive power domain control system has been in production use since February 2025, and is now deployed across multiple models under GAC's brands - HYPTEC and AION. As the industry's first electric drive power domain system based on deep integration using a single main control chip, the solution significantly reduces chip count, minimizes risks associated with chip-level failures, and boosts motor controller efficiency to as high as 99.9%. The certification confirms that GAC has completed the system's full product development lifecycle in strict compliance with ISO 26262:2018 functional safety and ISO/SAE 21434:2021 information security standards.

Throughout the project, GAC Technology Research Center worked closely with SGS experts, strengthening safety design across all development phases while ensuring engineering feasibility and an optimal user experience.

Zhao Hui, Vice President of SGS China, commented: "The successful certification highlights GAC's strong team and robust development systems. We are pleased to support the safety of the Quark E-Drive and look forward to closer collaboration."

This milestone represents a major breakthrough for GAC in e-drive safety and sets a new global benchmark for the intelligent electric vehicle industry.

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GAC's Quark Electric Drive Achieves the World's First DAkkS ASIL D Functional Safety and Information Security Dual Certification