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Kimbal EI platform, powered by MicroEJ’s VEE Energy™, supports India’s AMI goals and enables scalable, software-defined smart meter deployment worldwide
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BOSTON and NEW DELHI, India, Nov. 14, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — MicroEJ, a global leader in embedded software solutions, today announces a partnership with Kimbal, one of India’s fastest-growing energy-tech companies, to power its new on-device software platform, Kimbal EI (Edge Intelligence), with MicroEJ VEE Energy™. This next-generation software foundation introduces an app ecosystem designed to accelerate the evolution of smart meters toward distributed intelligence at the edge, enabling faster customization, global deployment, and long-term software innovation aligned with AMI 2.0 and broader energy transition goals.
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Kimbal, a leader in Energy Engineering from India, ships nearly 10 million smart meters annually, and is playing a key role in the country’s ambitious smart metering rollout and Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) deployment plan of 250 million endpoints by 2028.
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With the launch of Kimbal EI, the company is adopting an agile, modular, and software-defined strategy that transforms every meter into an intelligent, app-ready device capable of delivering new AI-enabled services both behind and in front of the meter for utilities and consumers alike.
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This strategic move aims to drive faster innovation in global utility markets and support Kimbal’s expansion into programmable, app-ready energy devices.
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Accelerating AMI Innovation Through Edge Intelligence
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As utilities in India and abroad demand smarter, more flexible solutions that can adapt to evolving regulations and customer expectations, Kimbal recognized the need to rethink its software strategy. To lead this shift, the company selected MicroEJ’s platform to decouple software from hardware, enabling agility of modern software to the grid edge. This enables faster feature development, easier maintenance, and immediate reuse of applications across Kimbal’s product lines.. With Kimbal EI, Kimbal now supports a wide range of meter hardware, from cost-efficient 16-bit microcontrollers to powerful 32-bit and 64-bit processors. This unified software platform simplifies complexity, lowers the total cost of ownership, and speeds up the delivery of new features and services.
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Powered by MicroEJ’s service-oriented architecture, Kimbal EI provides engineering teams with a flexible foundation for building and updating devices at scale. Teams easily adapt meters for different utility requirements, roll out new capabilities over the air, and stay ahead of future needs. This process results is a more intelligent, responsive, and future-ready AMI ecosystem.
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Empowering the Global Energy Transition with Edge Intelligence
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Kimbal’s global roadmap includes expansion into advanced energy markets such as Australia and the United States, where utilities increasingly rely on programmable meters capable of running utility and third-party applications, performing advanced diagnostics, and enabling real-time decision-making at the grid edge.
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Kimbal EI is the digital backbone of Kimbal’s strategy to scale grid-edge intelligence worldwide, supporting use cases such as predictive maintenance, energy demand forecasting, and power-quality analytics. By leveraging Edge AI capabilities, Kimbal EI will embed intelligence directly into the device—supporting features like NILM (Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring), DER integration, and behind-the-meter energy management.
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