Cyan offers flexible solutions for the remote monitoring and control of lights, energy meters and industrial telemetry.
Cyan's solutions are based on a comprehensive standard product portfolio of RF based gateways and nodes.
Metering: Gas, Electricity, Water
Lighting: Street, Tunnel, Architectural,
Industrial Telemetry: Process control, Thermo eco telemetry, Weather

Pre-close update, said:
That its "decisive action and substantial cost cutting" leaves the company in a strong position for 2010.
It has spent much time and effort in supporting prospective customers, with volume order confirmations expected in the new year.

Future prospects
Has successfully secured and maintained key partnerships, most recently with Future Electronics Inc, a top three worldwide electronic component distributor with divisions focussed on metering and lighting products.

Has successfully completed two equity placings to new and existing investors during the period, raising a total of 3.0 million of new money to fund working capital requirements to support customer trial orders and partnerships.

Directors Buying:
Over 4 Millions share were bought by directors during this month

For all this motives the shares at 1.15p are worth taking some aboard

lectricity Metering Networks
Electricity utilities and meter manufacturers are investigating ways of introducing Advanced Meter Reading (AMR) and Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) to their businesses.

These technologies can significantly improve the information made available to energy service providers, including detailed energy usage profiles, diagnostic and status data from metering devices, and instantaneous usage from industrial and domestic consumers. This in turn helps to reduce the cost of taking readings, and prevent financial loss due to the fraudulent use of supplies. Load balancing can also be improved when information on instantaneous usage is provided. In addition consumers can benefit from improved information on their energy usage patterns by making better use of off-peak tariffs.

Cyan offers wireless Point-to-Point (P2P) and Meshing solutions for electricity AMR/AMI. Cyan's P2P solution use its ISM frequency band RF nodes (433/470/868/915/865 MHz). These allow a handheld meter reading device to directly communicate with each meter. Cyans meshing solution uses the same RF nodes to connect meters to a GPRS Gateway. A CyNet mesh network is formed around the gateway, which can be used to collate energy profiles, receive instantaneous readings, and send tariff updates to the meter. Cyan's GPRS Gateways can automatically monitor the mesh network and collect meter readings. Each GRPS Gateway has a RF node to connect to the local mesh network and GPRS modem for remote collection and monitoring from the backhaul system

Gas Metering Networks
A rise in energy prices and increasing focus on environmental issues has led to the demand for energy efficiency. As a result governments are legislating for the provision of Automated Meter Reading with a long term plan to move to fully Automated Metering Infrastructure

Cyan offers a wireless gas meter network solution that enables city wide deployment of wireless gas meters. The network uses Cyan's Cy-Net low power mesh network over ISM band (433/470/868/915/865 MHz). Each gas meter becomes an RF node on the network communicating with other RF nodes as well as mains powered concentrator gateways. The concentrators, Cyan's GPRS Gateways, automatically monitor the mesh network and collect readings from the meters.

Each GRPS Gateway has a RF node to connect to the local mesh network as well as GPRS for backhaul to remote central collection and monitoring system.

Industrial
Cyan's range of gateways and radio nodes can be used in a wide variety of monitoring and control applications. The RF nodes have on board resources such as Analogue to Digital converters with 12-bit resolution, digital inputs and outputs, timers and counters.

These can be used with external circuitry to sense conditions such as temperature, humidity, and movement. The combination of these resources, the Cy-Net radio mesh, and GPRS gateway can then be used to report telemetry to a central point, and/or send control signals to each remote node.

Street and Tunnel Lighting
With the rise of energy pricing and new regulation, operators of public lighting systems are driven to reduce operating costs. These reductions can be achieved by remotely controlling each lamp and managing its brightness according to need and by decreasing maintenance requirements by detecting faults remotely.

Cyan's technologies and products provide a complete control and communications network and user interface to lighting manufacturers. This complete system solution allows lighting manufacturers to manufacture and sell RF controlled street and tunnel lighting systems.

Some good news...bit by bit this can come incredibly right...

Much more to come from Cyan....so much potential with probably the whole of South East Asia being interested once an initial order has been finalised....

CAMBRIDGE TECHNOLOGY DRIVES INDIAN SMART GRID

Technology from Cyan in Cambridge is driving a high profile smart grid project in a region dubbed as ‘The French Riviera of the East’ – India’s Puducherry on the Bay of Bengal.

The UK company specialises in mesh-based flexible wireless solutions for utility metering and lighting control but its shares have been bumping along the bottom at 0.75p as it struggles for financial traction.

Cyan is banking on India’s pursuit of energy efficient systems to plug the revenue gap.
Executive chairman John Cronin revealed that one of Cyan’s partners was utilising its technology in the recently initiated smart grid project in Puducherry.

The project is being led by the Power Grid Corporation of India Limited (PGCIL), a government of India enterprise. It involves installing an Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) solution in houses throughout Puducherry to support the electricity department’s objective to save power.

Shooting up......news imminent perhaps...hope it's good...

Up again...

I hear that TNEB are holding up proceedings for some reason and this would explain the drifting downwards of the share price over the past 10 days or so-also i hear that John Cronin is going out to India in January --it looks like further delays in key decisions being made -but we are of course having to deal with the Indian beaurocracy and they are well known for taking their time!- I just fear that the longer it takes the further the shares will fall- any comments would be welcome from anyone on here who follows Cyan shares!--

the bounce from 0.615p was a 50% Fibonacci retracement
also the closing Candlestick being a HAMMER is very bullish


HAMMER
Definition:
The Bullish Hammer Pattern is a significant candlestick that occurs at the bottom of a trend or during a downtrend and it is called a hammer since it is hammering out a bottom. The Bullish Hammer Pattern is a single candlestick pattern and it has a strong similarity to the Bullish Dragonfly Doji Pattern. In the case of Bullish Dragonfly Doji Pattern, the opening and closing prices are identical whereas the Bullish Hammer Pattern has a small real body at the upper end of the trading range.

Recognition Criteria:
1. The market is characterized by a prevailing downtrend.
2. Then we see a small real body at the upper end of the trading range. Color of this body is not important.
3. We would like to see the lower shadow at least twice as long as the real body.
4. There is no (or almost no) upper shadow.

Explanation:
The overall direction of the market is bearish, characterized by a downtrend. Then the market opens with a sharp sell off implying the continuation of the downtrend. However, prices suddenly turn upwards, the sell-off is quickly abated and bullish sentiment continues during the day with a closing price at or near to its high for the day which causes the long lower shadow. Apparently the market fails to continue in the selling side. This observation reduces the previous bearish sentiment causing the short traders to feel increasingly uneasier with their bearish positions.

Important Factors:
If the hammer is characterized by a close above the open thus causing a white body, the situation looks even better for the bulls.

Video of John Cronin interview, well worth watching

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycx4dH5AvLo&feature=player_embedded
John Cronin states “The tender will be awarded to three meter manufacturers”.

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interesting post from LSE

"Cyan's prospects in the Indian Electricity metering market are now stronger than ever. Whilst we are having to be patient with the pace of progress on the TNEB tender, this opportunity represents a potentially significant turning point for the Company and we are exceptionally well positioned as the process nears its final stages. It is the view of Cyan's Board, and this has been confirmed by third parties, that the award of the TNEB tender to Cyan's meter manufacturer partners will be transformational in terms of Cyan's perception by customers and will open up an opportunity to establish the market standard for Automated Metering Infrastructure ("AMI") solutions in India (where more than 100 million smart meters are expected to be installed over the next 2-10 years)."

Interesting links

Press release ....................

http://electricity.puducherry.gov.in/css/smart%20grid.pdf

Power Grid System via CyLec Program....

http://smart-grid.tmcnet.com/topics/smart-grid/articles/2012/11/06/314833-puducherry-previews-yet-to-come-smart-power-grid.htm

Share moving up STRONGLY after yesterday end of retracement, on what it seems all buying this morning

Further delays .....nothing unusual....but one day this company might just surprise us...

I have been given to understand that there is a small problem to be resolved before any deal or deals can be struck and it relates to the size of the brown envelope!--we all know how things operate business wise in countries like India!--maybe that is why John Cronin is flying out to India in January to resolve this problem, etc--
I still fear that the longer all this takes the likehood is the shares will decline further-lets see anyway what transpires!-Good luck all!-

Moving nicely up today, on a good spike

Smart meter potential in emerging markets

emerging-markets-to-more-than

After hovering a bit up and down during the last week, today is moving ahead again hoping the 0.70p is left behing and looking for 0.80p soon and then 0.85p .

Going places now on a breakout of recent intraday highs

SMART GRIDS INDIA - A NEED FOR SMART PLANNING / 17 DEC 2012

The North India power outage of 2012 left 300 million people without power for 15 hours and even disrupted the regular functioning of the National Capital. The question however remains, what steps are being taken to strengthen the system and avoid another blackout. Though an audit of the protection systems was commissioned, a fundamental re-engineering and restructuring process to curb over drawing of power must be set in place. With rising demand for power in the urban sector, a focus on power supply to rural India must also be given top priority. The Ministry of Power has sent its proposal for addition of 76,000 MW of power capacity in the Twelfth Five Year plan (2012-2017) to the planning commission. Steps to encourage foreign investments in the power sector have also been taken with FDI up to 100 per cent that is permitted under automatic route for projects of electricity generation (except atomic energy), transmission, distribution and power trading.

Efficient transmission,distribution and monitoring systems play a pivotal role in any power related sector. Therefore, utmost care and attention must be given to ensure 100% reliability and accuracy when in operation. Smart technology and innovations coupled with Smart planning should now be the fundamental objective of Indian Power sector. The Indian smart meter market is estimated to be 100 million nodes alone and with the support of Government, revolutionizing India's Grid to an enhanced and dynamic network will be the solution to the current power problems.

Shri Reji Kumar Pillai, The President of India Smart Grid Forum quotes “Indian power sector MUST leverage smart grid technologies to alleviate the perennial problems of the sector – huge t&d losses, power cuts, poor quality of supply and equipment failure. Smart grids can provide end to end visibility of the system in real time that will facilitate effective management of all sources of generation, transmission, distribution and consumption of electricity; and also contribute to optimized asset utilization, increased employee productivity and better customer service.” A global perspective comes from Mr. Thor Hjartarson, Manager - System Reliability Planning at Toronto Hydro, who said "Today's Asset Management and Engineering is about finding optimal solutions for a complex system operated as close to utilization as possible. Smart Grid technologies and analytics will enable this through better system monitoring, more accurate and timely information as well as enhanced automation and operation. "

The Smart Grid India Energy Efficiency Optimization Summit on 20 & 21 February, 2013 in New Delhi will touch upon the need to adopt grid and meter technologies that will pave the path to energy efficiency in India. The summit will host speakers such as Shri Reji Kumar Pillai, Mr. Thor Hjartarson alongside Shri Tarun Kapoor from The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy and Shri V. Arunachalam from CPRI.

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From .. .... fingers xxd 18 Dec'12 - 02:17

Advanced Metering Infrastructure pilot

Cyan Holdings plc (AIM:CYAN.L), the integrated system and software design company delivering mesh based flexible wireless solutions for utility metering and lighting control, announces that one of its strategic meter manufacturer partners in India has deployed Cyan's integrated Advanced Metering Infrastructure ("AMI") solution as a pilot for a leading integrated power company in Mumbai.

Cyan's meter manufacturer partner has deployed single and three phase CyLec® (Cyan's integrated solution for AMI) enabled meters in Mumbai for evaluation by the power company. The installation will demonstrate CyLec and is expected to remain in place for three to six months. The company will use its own Meter Data Management System to manage and present the data collected from the meters.

The private company is India's largest integrated power company with over 1,000,000 household, 150,000 corporate customers and a significant international presence.

Is it good enough?
Next 2-10 years!