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Did You Hear?
Pertinent Market News Over the Last Month
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Baltimore Gas & Electric (BGE), a subsidiary of Constellation Energy, has selected Oracle Utilities Meter Data Management as part of the utility’s AMI pilot. BGE serves more than 1.2 million business and residential electric customers and more than 640,000 gas customers in Baltimore City and all, or part of, 10 Central Maryland counties. BGE’s AMI pilot will deploy Oracle Utilities Meter Data Management in a pilot project for approximately 3,100 (mostly residential) customers and 6,000 meters from May through October 2008. Following the pilot, and provided that it receives permission from the state regulators to proceed, the company plans to implement the AMI program throughout its service area beginning in 2009.
Itron Inc. has signed an agreement with CenterPoint Energy, Inc.’s electric transmission and distribution utility for deployment of OpenWay® AMItechnology in the Houston area. Subject to regulatory approval from the Public Utility Commission of Texas (PUCT), CenterPoint Energy’s deployment plans call for initial installation of OpenWay network communication infrastructure and electricity meters to meet the advanced metering and data collection needs of retail electric providers (REPs) operating in CenterPoint Energy’s service territory. The contract provides CenterPoint Energy the ability to purchase up to 2 million meters if CNP ultimately moves to a full deployment across its electric service territory.
The ZigBee Alliance announced the official certification of 19 products using the ZigBee® Smart Energy public application profile. This first group of products provides a broad range of services designed to help utility companies worldwide to implement new home area networks for managing energy. It also helps consumers improve their own energy efficiency and delivers multi-vendor product interoperability. The following ZigBee Smart Energy products were tested to ensure that they meet all of the Alliance's strict specifications and perform as promised. These products represent solutions across the entire efficiency ecosystem -- energy services portals, meters, displays, thermostats and load controllers. Each product may wear the ZigBee logo so that they are easily identified in the marketplace.
- Cellnet + Hunt -- FOCUS AX endpoint is an advanced metering endpoint that provides two-way communication with the utility, meter, and HANs.
- Ember -- Smart Energy Application is a complete reference implementation of each of the device types, clusters, and security functions, enabling easy customization by device manufacturers to allow rapid development and certification of their products.
- Itron-- OpenWay CENTRON(R) advanced electricity meters provide highly accurate electricity measurement and support two-way communications between utilities and homes, including HANs.
- Itron—OpenWay Gas Module accurately measures natural gas consumption and supports two-way communication with the Itron OpenWay CENTRON meter for meter reading and remote programming.
- Tendril -- Outlet is a three-prong electrical outlet, for use in any standard home outlet, that monitors and controls the energy consumption of any electrical appliance while offering Internet or in-home display tracking.
- Alektrona -- Z-Aperture is a broadband energy service portal providing Internet connectivity for demand-response/load-control, sub-metering, and other energy management services.
- Computime Limited -- CTW200 is a thermostat that monitors, controls and displays energy consumption and rate information while supporting all standard HVAC systems and two stage heat pumps.
- Computime Limited -- CTW300 is an in home display with a large dot matrix screen for users to monitor energy rate and consumption information in residences.
- Comverge-- DCU offers a wide range of functionality – from individual addressing to adaptive algorithms and is compatible with popular air conditioning units, water heaters, pool pumps, and other auxiliary appliances.
- Comverge—SuperStat is a smart thermostat offering both utilities and end users programmable and energy efficient control that operates with popular heating, ventilation, and air conditioning systems while offering web-based features.
- Energate -- Pioneer Z100 is a smart thermostat incorporating next generation technology beyond the features found on today's most sophisticated thermostats and provides unparalleled performance with an exceptional user interface.
- Greenbox Technology – Greenbox is a web-based interactive energy management platform enabling households to better understand and manage their energy and water usage, while saving money and reducing their carbon footprint.
- LS Industrial Systems -- LK Series Single-Phase and Poly-Phase Electric Meters are intelligent, fully featured, and revenue-grade solid-state energy meters with integrated two-way communications supporting many standards.
- National Technical Systems -- Smart Energy Test Harness is a complete reference application emulating all types of ZigBee Smart Energy devices that automates the execution of the complete certification suite needed to achieve certification.
- PRI -- Home Energy Controller monitors and displays electricity and gas consumption from any meter and provides cost information on a customer friendly display.
- PRI -- Single and Poly Phase Multi Rate Meters offer optional load control switches and a variety of power ratings to suit any market.
- Trilliant—SecureMesh Micro Access Portal is independent from the meter and can be embedded in any end-point device including thermostats, in-home displays, appliance controllers or meters and is part of the Trilliant SecureMesh AMI network.
- Wireless Glue Networks -- GSF Smart Energy Device Simulator models and mtests ZigBee Smart Energy devices on ZigBee PRO platforms including Texas Instrument Z-Stack and Ember ZNET, and also supports active device on Daintree Networks' SNA.
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Download the May 2008 Issue
Use the link below to download the PDF of the full issue of the May 2008 Automation Insight for the complete print versions of the articles.
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[download] Automation Insight - May 2008 (.pdf 130 kb)
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