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Silver Spring Networks enables CENTRON® Meters with Smart
Meter Capabilities
San Mateo, CA, February 5, 2007 - Silver Spring Networks today announced the commercial availability of the Itron CENTRON® residential electricity meter equipped with the Silver Spring Networks’ Network Interface Card (NIC). This combination provides high quality meter performance with two-way, IP-based communications for the next generation utility network. CENTRON joins a growing number of meters enabled by Silver Spring Networks.
The Silver Spring Networks-enabled CENTRON meter is a cost-effective networked metering solution. The CENTRON’s metering accuracy and performance is extended by Silver Spring Networks’ NIC providing multi-channel data recording, event logging, power outage and restoration notification, tamper detection, and on-demand reads.
Cost-efficient services are a major challenge facing utility companies today. The CENTRON meter and the Silver Spring Networks’ secure, IP-based advanced utility network allow the utility to perform scheduled and on-demand tasks from any secure web browser. With “over the air” upgradeability, the CENTRON meter can be remotely reprogrammed or reconfigured, requiring no field visits.
“Utilities looking to minimize costs while increasing efficiency and services are demanding more from their meters and networks. This new offering enables advanced metering and two-way communications - these are the meters of the future,” said Scott Lang, CEO of Silver Spring Networks. “The CENTRON meters equipped with the NIC will enable utilities to connect to their customers and to offer advanced applications, improving service delivery and customer satisfaction.”
CENTRON meters with Silver Spring Networks NICs are available directly from Itron in multiple forms.
About Silver Spring Networks
Silver Spring Networks, the leader in IP networking, connects utilities with their customers over a two-way, real-time network, enabling innovation and change. Utilities can enhance the way they interact with customers. Customers are empowered to manage their energy more efficiently. The quality and reliability of delivery is improved and costs are lowered. Using this IP-based network, utilities can deploy a scalable, reliable infrastructure from the substation to the customer premise and implement advanced metering, distribution automation, demand response and other applications at a fraction of comparable costs. An open, IP -based network lowers not just capital costs, but total cost of ownership over the life of the system. When planning the network of tomorrow, it helps to partner with a company that makes it available today. For more information, visit: www.silverspringnetworks.com.
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