Elster (NYSE: ELT) today announced that it will work with Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) (NYSE: SAI) to deliver a "hosted" smart grid solution for electric, water and gas utilities.
Elster said the end-to-end solution will be especially cost-effective for public power municipal and cooperative agencies, and will enable them to improve operating efficiencies and customer service.
The SmartGrid as a ServiceTM (SGaaSTM) will give utilities access to demand response (DR), distribution automation (DA), meter data management (MDM), voltage conservation, transformer monitoring, electric vehicle charging and more. With the bundled offering, small and large utilities can operate a high availability Smart Grid system at significantly lower cost.
"Elster and SAIC are providing the foundation for Smart Grid projects of all sizes and requirements through a hosted offering that can be customized according to the needs of our customers," said Mark Munday, president and CEO, Elster Solutions.
The joint solution will build on Elster’s EnergyAxis® Smart Grid solution and SAIC’s Tier 3 SAS 70 Type II service. EnergyAxis, which is already active in more than 85 deployments worldwide, enables advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) and DA convergence through built-in applications.
EnergyAxis supports TCP/IP, IPv4 and IPv6. It uses standard interfaces to Customer Information Systems (CIS), Geospatial Information Systems (GIS), Outage Management Systems (OMS) and Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA), and is compliant with industry standards, including National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) approved security standards.
The comprehensive solution from Elster and SAIC provides program management services, as well as business process and change management. The entire solution takes advantage of multiple wide area network (WAN) technologies, eliminating the need for a system backhaul.
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