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News Release from: Echelon | Subject: Metering and Energy Management Project
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Advanced Metering and Energy Management
Project
Echelon wins advanced metering and energy management project with Austrian utility LINZ STROM.
Echelon Corporation, a leading provider of networking technology that is used to manage and reduce energy consumption, today announced that its Networked Energy Services (NES) System has been selected by LINZ STROM, Austria to network 75,000 of its customers using advanced meters The project includes an option for an additional 75,000 of their remaining 175,000 meters
This article was originally published on Buildingtalk on 5 Jul 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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NES Value-Added Reseller Ubitronix (also of Austria), will serve as the prime contractor under the terms of the recently concluded public tender offer.
The project is the first large-scale NES win in Austria and demonstrates the power of the NES system and Echelon networking infrastructure products to provide comprehensive energy management systems to utilities and municipalities.
In addition to installation of the NES System, LINZ STROM, Austria will also install a LonWorks based managed streetlight system in a segment of its territory as well as provide direct control of in-home appliances such as hot water heaters or furnaces.
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Echelon expects shipments to begin in the third quarter of 2007 and total revenue, without options, of approximately $7.5 million over the course of the initial three year project.
"We're very excited to have successfully concluded a long and stringent public tender process so satisfactorily," said Josef Heizinger, CEO of LINZ STROM.
"The NES system, as supplied by Ubitronix, will provide us with substantial competitive advantages in our metering market".
"Additionally, by extending the electricity metering infrastructure to other residential meters, and through the direct control of high-consumption devices inside the home, I believe that LINZ STROM has embarked on a truly market leading project - not only in Austria, but globally." The LINZ STROM project includes in-home command and control via the NES meter's EN 13757 (M-Bus) communications connection to existing gas or water meters.
A Ubitronix developed Load Management Module with integrated M-Bus controller and corresponding enterprise applications specifically for use with the NES system manages up to four separate circuits - creating a cost-effective, two-way demand response and load management system for high-consumption in-home devices.
The same Ubitronix controllers provide switching for street lights.
Light level information is provided to LINZ STROM control centers over a broadband power line wide-area network or other IP connection using Echelon's i.LON 100 servers and light sensors based on Echelon's power line communications technology.
Switching of the street lights is controlled over the NES infrastructure and Ubitronix controllers.
The system provides LINZ STROM with the opportunity to substantially reduce streetlight related operating and maintenance costs.
For example, the City of Oslo uses a similar system that has resulted in energy savings of nearly 50% and maintenance cost reductions of nearly 30%.
"We are very pleased with this win in Austria, both for the widening of the advanced metering market that it represents and also because of the breadth of vision that LINZ STROM has shown," said Frits Bruggink, Echelon's senior vice-president and general manager, service provider group.
"By combining the power of Echelon's LonWorks infrastructure and NES product lines and working with a skilled partner such as Ubitronix to extend the functionality and integrate it into their business, LINZ STROM serves as a great example of how Echelon offerings can be leveraged to improve operations and lower costs across multiple functions and services within a utility".
"We are proud to accomplish the comprehensive and forward-looking requirements of the tender," said Christoph Schaffer, Ubitronix's CEO.
"LINZ STROM will benefit from our modular software suite and the powerful hardware modules for load management and street lighting which automatically integrate into the NES system by means of plug-and-play.".
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