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Aclara smart grid technologies include its TWACS advanced metering infrastructure based on a power line communications system that has proven particularly effective in rural areas, although Aclara smart grid wins have included urban areas as well. The Aclara smart grid technology employs existing power line infrastructure and integrates into existing substations without introducing additional points of failure.
Aclara smart grid offerings for utilities also include a meter data management system (MDMS), its TWACS Prepayment Solution and a home area networking (HAN) technology. Using the Aclara smart grid package, a utility that has implemented its TWACS AMI solution can use the MDMS as the backbone for prepayment and the HAN offering.
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Paper reports and web portals were the first consumer engagement battlegrounds. Now, in a move that mirrors the world at large, the action is shifting to the mobile front. At DistribuTECH this week, Missouri-based Aclara upped the ante by introducing a mobile "platform."
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This is a slide deck outlining Aclara's approach to mobile consumer engagement, presented in January, 2013 at DistribuTECH.
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Last year Itron strengthened its communications portfolio by acquiring SmartSynch and its cellular know-how. Now rival Aclara is answering back with a similar acquisition.
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Aclara is one of the top smart metering companies in the U.S., growing its portfolio of offerings and its revenues despite a sagging metering market. With a one-two punch like that, we think the St. Louis-based company deserves a little more attention than it typically gets. Find out why Aclara succeeds - and the challenges ahead.
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The obituary for power line communications has been written several times, and in the U.S. the technology has generally been considered a second string player when compared to RF communications. So when we had the chance to sit down with a representative from a company that embraces both, we jumped on it. Click inside for the story.
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Rural electric cooperatives will have the option to buy Sensus smart grid technologies through a reseller partnership with the National Rural Telecommunications Cooperative. Products and services are to include advanced metering infrastructure, smart meters, distribution automation and demand response.
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The Demand Response and Smart Grid Coalition took the smart grid message to the UN climate change convention in Cancun, Mexico, this week. The coalition's mission was to educate convention delegates on the critical role of the smart grid and demand response in achieving climate policy goals.
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| First came smart meters … and hot on their heels a meter data management market that is forecast to grow by almost 30% in the next few years, according to IDC Energy Insights. The good news for utilities is there are a dizzying number of vendors offering MDM solutions. We’ve highlighted 10 to get you started.
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| One of the largest electric cooperatives in the nation, Lee
County Electric Cooperative (LCEC), has chosen the ENERGYprism® Customer Care and Energy Vision® Operational Efficiency solutions from Aclara®, a leader in Intelligent Infrastructure™ and part of the Utility Solutions Group of ESCO Technologies Inc. (NYSE:ESE). Aclara’s customer portal and meter data- management system (MDMS) will help LCEC transform its advanced metering infrastructure (AMI)into a foundation for smart-grid development. These additions to the utility’s information systems will allow Lee County Electric to turn consumption data into powerful knowledge for utility workers and customers alike.
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| Aclara®, a leader in Intelligent Infrastructure™ and part of the Utility Solutions Group of ESCO Technologies Inc. (NYSE:ESE), announces that Colombian utility EMCALI EICE ESE (EMCALI) has chosen its TWACS® technology for advanced metering infrastructure (AMI).
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| The National Information Solutions Cooperative (NISC) announced to its member utilities recently that it has signed a channel partnership with Google to provide energy information to consumers. John T. Brock reveals what this move means.
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| Metering company Aclara has formed a strategic alliance with wireless infrastructure mesh supplier Firetide Inc. to develop a higher bandwidth networking solution. The alliance may give Aclara what they need to keep the loyalty of their many rural, co-op, and municipal utility customers.
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| There are only two things wrong with today’s in-home displays for energy management: (1) they suck for utilities and (2) they suck for consumers. Now high-end home entertainment company Control4 is introducing something both groups will want. One weensy problem — by taking the early lead, Control4 has put itself in the crosshairs of Google, Microsoft, Intel, Sony, and other tech giants who want to own the operating system for the digital home. Click to read our analysis of the new product and of the company’s survival prospects.
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| Communications and networking firm Trilliant moved a step ahead of the pack today with its acquisition of SkyPilot Networks. The combination creates the first company that can offer “unified communications” — cost-effective, high-bandwidth communications to any customer and any piece of equipment anywhere in the service territory, whether urban or rural. And all managed through a single “unified” view. Jesse Berst explains how the acquisition catapults the sector into a new phase.
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| Argonne National Laboratory seeks better ways to model the grid... SAP follows in footsteps of Oracle announcement... Venture capital invested in power and efficiency has grown 15-fold in 6 years... GE is demonstrating smart appliances... Estimates vary on predicted size of Smart Grid market
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