LIBERTY LAKE, Wash. - January 24, 2012 - Itron, Inc. (NASDAQ:
ITRI) announced today that it has released its first set of
specialized analytic software applications built on the
Active Smart Grid Analytics™ (ASA) platform. Each application
is bundled with Itron's Analytic Accelerators and Extension
Toolkits, which help utilities take full advantage of their
smart grid data.
Built to leverage Itron's industry-leading metering,
communication network and meter data management (MDM)
solutions, these analytic applications provide actionable
business intelligence to enable specific smart grid solutions
for distribution operations, revenue cycle services and
customer engagement. Each analytic application is operational
"out-of-the-box" and comes with an Accelerator and Extension
Toolkit. Each Accelerator offers immediate value by providing
a fully-functional set of analytic dashboards and reporting
tools, but also establishes an ideal launching point to
develop customized analytic solutions using the ASA Extension
Toolkits.
By embedding best-of-breed technology from SAP, IBM and
Teradata, Itron's ASA solution creates an extensible platform
to incorporate data warehousing, business intelligence,
interval meter data and state-of-the-art analytic methods.
The solution allows utilities to combine and analyze data in
new ways, providing new insights into their systems to
streamline operations and lower costs.
"Successfully meeting the challenges that lie ahead requires
a comprehensive, extensible set of analytic tools that create
strong business value from the vast amounts of data utilities
are now collecting," said Mark deVere-White, senior vice
president of Itron Energy in North America and Latin America.
"The flexibility inherent in Itron's ASA solution enables
utilities to gain valuable insight into the delivery and use
of energy."
Energy Diversion Detection, Transformer Load Management and
Power Quality analytics are the first analytic applications
to be released on the ASA platform.
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Energy Diversion Detection: Itron's Energy
Diversion Detection analytics employ a variety of methods
to analyze meter alerts, energy and voltage measurements,
energy balancing and historic usage patterns to identify
energy diversion and meter tampering on a system-wide
scale.
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Transformer Load Management: Itron's
Transformer Load Management analytics continually monitor
and identify under-utilized, over-utilized and at-risk
transformers throughout the distribution system. The kit
evaluates kVA utilization, percent loss of life, top oil
and hot spot temperatures, increasing the visibility and
management of this key utility asset.
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Power Quality: Itron's Power Quality analytics enable
utilities to measure performance throughout the delivery
system by monitoring voltage, outage and restoration data
from the grid. This system-wide monitoring allows the
utility to identify opportunities for Voltage Optimization
and evaluate the effectiveness of energy-saving measures
deployed.
ASA Accelerators are designed to allow for customized
expansion with the use of Itron's ASA Extension Toolkits. By
customizing Accelerators, utilities can create specific
business processes, reports or interfaces to other enterprise
solutions. The toolkits also provide an efficient path to
integrate ASA with other core utility systems to enable
closed-loop solutions.
"We set out with the goal of creating an analytics platform
that had the flexibility of a custom solution while
delivering the 'time to value' and decreased risk of an
off-the-shelf application. By creating analytic applications
that include prebuilt Accelerators for rapid deployment and
Extension Toolkits for customization, we have created a
best-of-both-worlds solution," said deVere-White. "Now a
utility can quickly learn from the data acquired from the
grid and use that knowledge to extend and customize their
analytics for added value or as their needs change."
Itron will be demonstrating the ASA analytic applications at
DistribuTECH in their booth #611.
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