SmartSynch, Inc., a smart grid technology company utilizing standard IP communications via public wireless networks, announced today that Texas-New Mexico Power (TNMP) has selected SmartSynch’s Residential SmartMeter™ solution for a 231,000 unit point-to-point deployment to residential customers throughout the utility’s Texas market. This will mark the first mass residential deployment of smart metering solutions that use a public wireless network as the communications backbone. Such networks allow the utility to bring efficient, secure smart grid technology to homes across multiple geographies – from dense, urban cities to remote, rural communities – all at lower cost and with greater flexibility to incorporate new technology in the future. TNMP filed a formal request to the Public Utility Commission of Texas (PUCT) on May 26, 2010.

May 27, 2010