Eltel Networks, an Echelon value added reseller, and EnergiMidt, a Danish co-operative utility owned by its customers, are jointly offering Denmark’s first cloud-based smart metering solution based on Echelon’s smart metering system. Echelon EnergiMidt, one of the five largest electricity distribution companies in Denmark, has extensive experience with Echelon’s Networked Energy Services smart grid infrastructure system.
Echelon’s Control Operating System software integrates with the meter data management system from Goerlitz, a leading provider of telemetry solutions to European utilities. Goerlitz’s MDM system plugs into the Echelon COS application framework enabling EnergiMidt to provide billing and operational support services to these smaller utilities and cities, allowing them to capture the economies of scale normally only available to large entities. Such hosted-service offerings are commonly called “cloud” services.
The new offering from EnergiMidt and Eltel provides smaller utilities and municipalities one of the most cost-effective and quickest paths to achieving the benefits of a smart grid, including hourly meter readings, load control, remote connect/disconnect, better outage management and the ability to integrate water and gas meters into one common system with electric meters. This is particularly important for utility and city leaders who want to modernize grids but have limited resources to achieve their vision.
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