Gas Meter Market Size, Share & Trends Analysis Report By Application, Regional Outlook, Competitive Strategies, And Segment Forecasts, 2019 To 2025

The global gas meter market is expected to be driven by growing gas consumption over the forecast period. These meters play a key role in measuring consumption across various application areas such as domestic, commercial, and industrial. Growing energy demand and environmental concerns have resulted in a shift towards natural gas consumption owing to its inherent characteristics.

Characteristics such as low emission, higher calorific value, and easier operability are presumed to play a key role in shaping the industry in the future. Such a shift in consumer trends is expected to aid the gas meter market over the next seven years. This results in low operating expenditures and easier data management across multiple departments.

Such advantages are expected to assist the global gas meter market over the forecast period. Meter data management systems provide a centralized data management system that incorporates consumption of various departments or utilities and makes it available for real-time decision-making. Such advantages are presumed to positively impact the market over the forecast period.

However, inability to manage large data volumes generated from smart gas meter is anticipated to hamper gas meter market growth and development. Transition from old to new intelligent ones results in added costs and integration difficulties for companies. Such hindrances are presumed to hamper industry growth and development.

Technological advances have resulted in the introduction of smart gas meter. R&D initiatives to develop superior innovative products in line with customer specifications and reduce manufacturing as well as operating costs offer many opportunities for the industry participants. Smart gas meters are not widely accepted across the end-use industries at present but are projected to witness rapid growth in the future. Such growth prospects offer abundant opportunities for gas meter market growth and development.

Product types include basic conventional gas meter and smart & intelligent gas meter. Smart gas meters are gaining wide acceptance across various end-use industries in the recent past and are expected to continue this trend in the future. Regulations phasing out old conventional ones for new intelligent products are expected to play a key role in shaping the market over the forecast period.

Applications are varied and are spread across domestic, commercial, and industrial applications. Rapid urbanization and industrialization coupled with government initiatives to promote the same, especially in the developing regions, is projected to aid the regional as well as the global gas meter market. Emerging economies such as China, India, Brazil, and South Africa are projected to lead their respective regional market over the next seven years.

Other applications include leak detection and pressure management. Growth in end-use industries, particularly in the developing regions, is expected to complement the regional gas meter markets. Rising disposable income, urbanization, and growing standards of living have resulted in higher domestic as well as commercial demand. Government initiatives to encourage manufacturing activities in the developing regions have resulted in high demand from the industrial sector. These trends are presumed to aid the market over the next seven years.

Developed regions such as North America and Europe are projected to witness brisk growth owing to regulations that mandate companies to phase out old conventional meter and adopt new intelligent ones. Developing regions such as Asia Pacific, Middle East & Africa, and Central & South America are expected to witness brisk demand due to factors such as growing urbanization and government initiatives favoring industrialization. Rising energy demand and shift in customer preferences towards natural gas consumption are other key factors expected to positively impact the market over the forecast period.

gas meter Industry participants are investing heavily in R&D initiatives to develop superior products and increase their product portfolio to cater to growing demand. These R&D initiatives are focused on developing products that are in line with specialized consumer specifications.

Major gas meter industry participants include Elster Group SE, GE Energy Company, Sensus USA Inc., Itron Inc., ABB Ltd., Diehl Metering Group, Emerson Electric Co., Schneider Electric S.A., Badger Meter Inc., Endress+Hauser, Krohne Group, and Siemens A.G.