Glasgow-based SMS has expanded beyond smart metering into UK water infrastructure and German energy metering, uniting its Energy, Low Carbon and Water businesses under one brand, a move that matters to energy infrastructure investors and utilities because it shows metering assets and data being used as a platform for wider infrastructure services.

SMS is a Glasgow-headquartered energy infrastructure company founded in 1995 that manages more than 7.5 million meters, with capabilities spanning technology, field services, infrastructure, data, funding and long-term asset management.

Across Great Britain, 42 million smart and advanced meters are now installed in homes and small businesses, generating data that can support a better understanding of energy demand. The launch comes as the UK prepares for an estimated £40 billion of clean power investment each year to 2030.

Ian Smyth, CEO of SMS, said: “Smart meters and other low-carbon technologies, combined with better use of data, will be critical to making energy infrastructure more efficient and effective as the UK decarbonises. To date we have invested over £2 billion in UK smart metering and infrastructure to help customers deliver a more affordable, secure and smarter energy system.” Smyth added: “Metering was the starting point, not the destination.”

Germany offers headroom: only 5.9% of metering points had an intelligent metering system at the end of June 2026, compared with rates of 80% to nearly 100% in Italy, Sweden, France and Spain.

Mandatory installations are further along at 26%, with the legal rollout phase due to be at least 95% complete by the end of 2030.

Delivery is uneven, with 41 network areas having installed no smart meter by the end of June 2026.

UK water is the other new market: water companies in England are investing £1.7 billion to install 10 million smart meters in the 2025 to 2030 period, including nearly 800,000 at business customers, with one in ten businesses already on smart water metering according to MOSL data.

For the sector, a metering group diversifying into water and German electricity shows operators using installed-base data and field-service capacity to enter markets where regulated rollouts are still in progress across the UK and Germany.

Source: Water Magazine / Heise / Haufe / MOSL