Don Taylor

Background

About Don Taylor

inventor of 1st integrated prepayment meter in 1985 * 27 years as Director of Technology for Itron SA * co-founder of several national and international standards committees * author of several international standards for payment metering systems * currently director of the Standard Transfer Specification Association Don Taylor retired as the Director of Technology for Itron Measurement & Systems (Pty) Ltd. in 2012. He is currently Chairman of the STS Association and a participating working group member on various standards organisations such as the SANC for the IEC, SANS, NRS, STS Association, AFSEC and IEC. He is also a longstanding member of the SAIMC. In 1976 he graduated with a Higher National Diploma in Electrical Engineering from the Cape College for Advanced Technical Education, after which he worked for 2 years in the gold mining industry followed by 10 years for the CSIR and 18 years in the prepayment industry. He is recognized as a co-­founder of the prepayment industry in SA and developer of the first commercialized solid­ state integrated prepayment meter worldwide in 1985. He also co-founded the first South African prepayment meter manufacturing company Angcon Technologies in 1986, which later became AEG Energy Control, then Schlumberger, then Actaris and Now Itron. In 1994 he co­-founded the IEC WG15 for payment systems and in 1997 co-­founded the STS Association of which he has been chairman since