The Company is leveraging decades of experience to rollout a calculated smart metering plan across the GCC and Iraq

Landis + Gyr began its operations in the Middle East in 2007 but the company itself has a much longer history ; founded in Switzerland in 1896 as a manufacturer of high quality , state of the art electricity , water , gas and district cooling meters . The company has grown to cover 30 countries across five continents , employing in excess of 5,500 people . Over the decades Landis + Gyr has been pioneering various innovations including launching the world ’ s first digital meter in the late 1970s . Today it serves approximately 3,500 utilities customers around the globe and is involved in the world ’ s largest smart metering and smart grid projects . In Japan , Landis + Gyr is providing communication networks for 27 million metering points ; in Brazil the company is deploying South America ’ s largest Advanced Metering Infrastructure solution .