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News Release from: Echelon | Subject: Next-generation electricity meters
Edited by the Buildingtalk Editorial
Team on 05 July 2006
Echelon approved as next-generation
meter supplier
Echelon Corporation has been selected as an approved supplier of "next-generation" electricity meters and associated infrastructure for 33 Swedish utilities.
Echelon Corporation, a global networking company providing technology and solutions for controls, smart metering, and energy and environment management, announced that it has been selected as an approved supplier of 'next-generation' electricity meters and associated infrastructure for Svenska Matsamarbetet (SAMS), a consortium of 33 medium and small sized Swedish utilities that collectively represent approximately 20% of the Swedish residential metering market The award, made under Swedish public procurement rules, allows each SAMS member to purchase the meters and system components it requires to fulfill its obligations from any of the approved suppliers without the need for individual public tenders, saving the member utilities time and expense
This article was originally published on Buildingtalk on 5 Jul 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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"We think the SAMS tender and our approval as a supplier of 'next-generation' metering systems marks another important step forward in the evolution of the electric metering market away from the basic systems of the past to the next generation systems of the future," said Ken Oshman, Echelon's CEO and chairman.
"In fact, SAMS explicitly segmented their tender award into 'base' meters, with the limited features typical of legacy metering systems and 'next-generation' meters, with a rich set of features that can provide utilities a host of additional operational and customer service improvements".
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"SAMS is the first organization we have seen to recognize the market shift in this way and, interestingly, the next-generation features they have specified exactly match Echelon's Networked Energy Services (NES) systems which both Vattenfall and E.ON Sverige have recently selected".
"While the SAMS award is a framework agreement and not an award for a fixed quantity of meters, we believe that the direction set by Vattenfall and E.ON Sverige, two of the largest utilities in Sweden with deep experience in metering systems, and the ability for SAMS members to purchase the same market-proven solution creates a very good opportunity for Echelon to deliver the NES system to a significant portion of the SAMS market".
Echelon's NES System provides an open, bidirectional, and extensible infrastructure that enables a comprehensive range of utility applications that can bring benefits to every aspect of a utility's operation, from metering, to customer services, to distribution operations, to value-added services.
By choosing the NES System, SAMS members can expect to have better control over energy usage and save substantial cost in monthly meter reading and other areas of their operations while providing improved customer service.
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