eSIM for grid modernisation in utilities
Why utilities are rethinking connectivity now
The energy and utility sectors carry the world’s most demanding uptime and safety requirements. Estates mix decades-proven assets with new digital deployments, while data volumes surge from AMI 2.0, Distribution Automation, and DER. Kigen helps utility IT leaders and product/network managers embed security, identity, and trust at the device and network layers so communications become a lever for reliability, not a constraint.
The utility and energy sectors have some of the most demanding requirements for communications of any industry. Operators steward national infrastructure where every decision must balance safety, continuity, and cost. Estates combine proven assets from decades with new deployments, often across purpose-built systems that weren’t originally designed for today’s data needs demands.
Working with Kigen, utilities can embrace telecoms investment with the move to cellular networks, bring network flexibility into their grid operations and own and manage eSIMs for their grid modernization.
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How utilities benefit from Kigen’s smart energy products?
- Configured for your environment: eSIM OS tuned to climate, operational, and network requirements (sub-1 GHz and mid-band)
- Flexibility with control: SGP.32 eIM simplifies secure profile provisioning and policy-driven failover across public, private, and satellite links
- Defence-in-depth: Indirect, secure profile routing and audited lifecycle operations harden your attack surface
- Future-ready supply chain: IFPP enables factory personalization and zero-touch in-field updates for long-life utility assets.
- DER orchestration – Bind device identity to policy; steer connectivity across private/public to match load, generation, and site safety conditions.
- AMI 2.0 at scale – Multi-network collectors and meters maintain coverage in basements, plants, and remote feeders; data flows even during outages.
- Distribution Automation & substation operations – Policy-driven failover keeps telemetry and control online; ultra-low-latency protection stays on utility-controlled paths
- Hybrid non-public networks (SNPN & PNI-NPN) – Anchor security in the private domain while roaming for mobility and redundancy—without losing policy or visibility.
- NTN / satellite fallback – Maintain situational awareness for remote assets and black-sky events via governed satellite channels.
Smart Metering with eSIM Technology
Streamline and future-proof your meter deployments with Kigen’s eSIM solution for smart energy. Designed for large-scale utility roll-outs, our platform enables secure, zero-touch provisioning, long-life connectivity and multi-network flexibility, reducing manufacturing complexity and operator-lock-in while ensuring data integrity from chip to cloud.
This eSIM energy transition handbook reveals how leading utilities and manufacturers are accelerating their smart grid rollouts with GSMA-compliant eSIM technology, remote provisioning and global single SKU deployment strategies.
Inside, you’ll learn:
How eSIM supports electricity, gas and water metering at scale
Strategies for streamlined manufacturing with In-Factory Profile Provisioning (IFPP)
Real-world deployments from Evergy and LCRA
How to enable multi-network resilience and future-ready automation
The critical role of eSIM in AMI 2.0 and distributed energy resource (DER) integration
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eSIM enables expanded smart meter functionality with connectivity out-of-the-box
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Kigen helps utilities modernise the grid with eSIM-based identity, trust and connectivity
Using SGP.32 eIM and IFPP, fleets ship multi-network ready and operate with policy-driven resilience across public, private and satellite networks.
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