Wirepas now has its AMI Platform is now supported on the SimpleLink CC1354P10 multiband wireless microcontroller (MCU) from Texas Instruments (TI). This collaboration provides an essential hardware option for deploying large-scale smart electricity metering networks, with initial deployments in India.

India is the first focus of this collaboration, where the Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) rollout under the RDSS framework represents one of the world’s largest smart metering programmes. This initiative requires long-term scalability, operational continuity, and supply chain resilience. The availability of the Wirepas Platform on TI devices enhances flexibility and sourcing options for meter manufacturers and system integrators in India.

Wirepas’ decentralized mesh network platform, based on the NR+ standard, ensures interoperability and consistent performance, independent of the underlying hardware. The addition of TI strengthens Wirepas’ commitment to an open, standards-aligned ecosystem that supports multi-source strategies and avoids vendor lock-in.

Teppo Hemia, CEO, Wirepas, commented, "This milestone expands our ecosystem, supporting the smart electricity metering transformation. By enabling the Wirepas Platform on TI’s wireless MCU, we offer our partners greater sourcing flexibility and design options, while ensuring performance consistency and interoperability across deployments."

Marian Kost, Vice President and General Manager of Connectivity at TI, added, "We are proud to partner with Wirepas to offer a highly reliable, long-range sub-1 GHz connectivity solution with SimpleLink™ CC1354P10 MCU, perfect for India’s smart meter market. This collaboration combines Wirepas' platform with TI’s RF performance and decades of smart meter innovation to create scalable, resilient AMI networks. With TI’s dependable capacity, we are enabling the deployment of large-scale smart grid infrastructure."

With proven wireless connectivity solutions optimised for India’s metering market, TI delivers the reliability and performance essential for smart grid deployments. Backed by substantial manufacturing investments and a geographically diversified supply chain, TI ensures resilient and geopolitically stable supply chains, a crucial advantage for manufacturers supporting India’s smart metering rollout of over 250 million units in a few years.

Wirepas enables customers to design and deploy scalable mesh networks using TI hardware, leveraging the Wirepas connectivity platform, which is already operating in millions of devices in large-scale national infrastructure programmes.