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Partnering for Smart Grid Solutions

Eka Systems is a global supplier and manufacturer of smart networking systems for Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI), Automated Meter Reading (AMR), submetering and Smart Grid solutions. Eka Systems offers utilities and energy companies unrestricted monitoring and control of electric, water and gas assets through a very robust and proven large scale network solution based on open access standards and open metering protocol. By partnering other technology leaders, Eka Systems delivers a comprehensive solution for meter data, demand response, and distribution automation to enable the Smart Grid.

With a comprehensive roster of industry leading partners, we combine strengths and resources of our partners to provide products, expertise and solutions to achieve your goals. Our partners lead the industry in meters, backhaul communications, meter data management software, Smart Grid, Home-Area-Network (HAN) devices, and system integration.

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Eka Systems is committed to developing technology based on open standards and is the leading provider of meter agnostic AMI networks. Our fully scalable technology incorporates electric, water, and gas meters with products certified for use with all leading meter vendors and is flexible enough to accommodate multi-vendor meters in a single network.

Badger Meter

Badger Meter is a leading manufacturer and marketer of flow measurement and control products, serving water utilities, municipalities and industrial customers worldwide. Measuring a variety of liquids, from potable water to oil and lubricants, to industrial processes, Badger Meter’s products are known for their high degree of accuracy, long-lasting durability, and their ability to provide valuable and timely measurement information to customers. Badger Meter’s flow metering products and meter reading systems allow customers to improve their operations and effectively manage their resources.  For additional information visit www.badgermeter.com.

Elster

Elster Electricity is a leading provider of electricity metering products and services throughout the world. Located in Raleigh, North Carolina, Elster Electricity offers integrated, cost-effective solutions including smart meters, communication solutions, and metering automation systems for residential, commercial, and industrial applications. Elster Electricity serves customers through a global sales force. For additional information visit www.elsterelectricity.com.

GE Energy

GE Energy (www.ge.com/energy) is one of the world's leading suppliers of power generation and energy delivery technologies, with 2007 revenue of $22 billion. Based in Atlanta, Georgia, GE Energy works in all areas of the energy industry including coal, oil, natural gas and nuclear energy; renewable resources such as water, wind, solar and biogas; and other alternative fuels. Numerous GE Energy products are certified under ecomagination, GE's corporate-wide initiative to aggressively bring to market new technologies that will help customers meet pressing environmental challenges.

Itron

Itron is a leading technology provider and critical source of knowledge to the global energy and water industries. Nearly 3,000 utilities worldwide rely on Itron technology to deliver the knowledge they require to optimize the delivery and use of energy and water. Itron delivers value to its clients by providing industry-leading solutions for electricity metering, meter data collection, energy information management, and demand response, load forecasting, analysis and consulting services, distribution system design and optimization, web-based workforce automation, and enterprise and residential energy management. Visit www.itron.com for more information.

Landis+Gyr

Landis+Gyr is a leading global provider of precision, commercial and industrial, and residential electric meters, as well as innovative metering systems. Globally, the company employs over 3,000 people, with the North American headquarters in Lafayette, Indiana, responsible for marketing throughout the worldwide ANSI markets. The U.S. Company also oversees operations at its Reynosa, Mexico manufacturing facility. Landis+Gyr Inc. is committed to maintaining its leadership position by manufacturing, marketing and delivering state-of-the-art, innovative, high-quality solutions to its customers on time, with value added, and at competitive prices. For more information about Landis+Gyr Inc., please visit the corporate web site at www.landisgyr.us.

Sensus

The Sensus Metering Systems companies are leading world-class providers of water, gas, heat and electric meters including comprehensive metering communications system solutions that comprise both automatic meter reading (AMR) and advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) systems. Additional linked businesses include Smith-Blair, Inc., a leading provider of pipe clamp & coupling products for the water, gas, and industrial markets; and Sensus Precision Die Casting a producer of complex, high quality die castings. For more information, please visit the Corporate web site at www.sensus.com.

E-Mon

Established in 1981, E-Mon is the industry leader in solid-state electronic kilowatt-hour submeters, automatic meter reading software and other energy management products and services. E-Mon’s products are installed worldwide for tenant billing, cost allocation, demand side management, energy conservation and load profiling in skyscrapers, shopping centers, airports, factories, office buildings, apartment buildings, college campuses and government facilities. E-Mon is an active member of the Alliance to Save Energy, the Association of Energy Engineers and the U.S. Green Building Council. For further information, visit www.emon.com.

Energomera

Energomera is a leading manufacturer of energy meters located in Stavropol, Russian Federation. Manufacturing over 40% of the meters sold in Russia and selling to more than 60 Russian utilities, Energomera enjoys market dominance. Having begun with production of simple single-phase and three-phase electronic electricity meters, the company continuously innovates and expands its range of products—a process driven by customer feedback. Recently, Energomera proudly announced the fifth generation of energy meters going into production—a marvelous achievement for a 15-year old manufacturing enterprise. Special component parts and advanced schematic technologies enable Energomera to create a truly unique model line of energy meters. For information, visit www.energomera.com.

Datamatic

Datamatic installed the first electronic meter reading system in 1980 and in doing so, birthed a new industry. Since then, Datamatic has been a force in the Automatic Meter Reading (AMR) industry. From the development of that first handheld meter reading system to today’s state-of-the-art MOSAIC AMR, Remote Shutoff and Acoustic Leak Detection technologies, Datamatic’s sole focus has been designing, installing, training and supporting AMR solutions that protect utilities’ revenue streams and add value to their operations. www.datamatic.com

 

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Eka Systems has established relationships with many companies in the AMI utility market space, allowing us deliver the quality end-to-end AMI solutions that utilities demand.

ElectSolve

ElectSolve is an IT services firm established to provide professional utility technical computer information system services for municipal, cooperative and investor owned utilities. ElectSolve’s core focus is supporting the rapidly changing needs of cooperative and municipal service providers and small investor owned utilities. Recognizing that there is an underserved municipal and cooperative utility market, ElectSolve offers technology and services giving utilities the ability to make faster decisions and to quickly engage new technologies.  For more information, visit www.electsolve.com.

eMeter

With 20 million meters under contract, eMeter Corporation of San Mateo, California, provides software that enables electric, gas, and water utilities to realize the full benefits of their Advanced Metering and Smart Grid initiatives.  EnergyIP, eMeter's premier enterprise MDM software platform, offers a full suite of Meter Data Management functionality, an Integration Platform for linking a variety of AMI systems to multiple utility information systems, and Business Process Management Tools specializing in AMI implementation, operations, and maintenance.  With offices located in the United States, Australia, and India, eMeter's experienced professional services team is available to plan, install, and configure the EnergyIP software, as well as provide strategic consulting services related to meter data management, advanced metering, and demand response.  For more information, visit www.eMeter.com.

 

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DRAM Coalition
Demand Response and Advanced Metering Coalition

The Demand Response and Advanced Metering Coalition is a non-profit organization based in Washington, DC that includes the leading providers of technologies and services in the area of demand response and its enabling technologies such as advanced metering. Its mission is to be a source of information, data and expertise in demand response and to provide a diverse forum for ideas and experience to be exchanged among policy makers, DR practitioners, DR providers and other interested parties.

Eka Systems, Inc. is a board member of the coalition. Eka is active in working groups on smart metering that was recently established by the DRAM board.
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UtilityAMI

UtilityAMI is A forum to define serviceability, security and interoperability guidelines for advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) and demand responsive infrastructure (DRI) from a utility / energy service provider perspective.
UtilityAMI has developed high level policy statements that can be used to facilitate efficient requirements and specification development using a common language that minimizes confusion and misunderstanding between utilities and vendors.  UtilityAMI is coordinating with other industry groups as required to efficiently carry out its mission.
UtilityAMI has a goal to utilize the UtilityAMI work products to influence the vendor community to produce products and services that utilities need to support their AMI and DRI initiatives.

Eka Systems is actively involved in all the working groups and is currently focused on crafting the AMI security and enterprise task group specifications.
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OpenHAN

OpenHAN is a task force of the UtilityAMI working group operated under the auspices of the Utility Communications Architecture International Users Group (UCAIug).  OpenHAN is charged with addressing issues related to the utility/consumer interface which is one of several tasks of the UtilityAMI work plan.  Specifically, OpenHAN is developing use cases, requirements, high level architecture, and security policy to support utility applications that utilize a Home Area Network (HAN) established and/or accessed through utility owned equipment such as a meter or poletop gateway (also referred to in the industry as a utility/ consumer portal).

Eka Systems is following OpenHAN development as it relates to interfacing EkaNet enabled smart AMI networks to OpenHAN in premise devices like In Home Displays (IHD), Program Control Thermostats (PCT) etc.
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GridWise Alliance

A Collaborative Venture of the US Department of Energy and the GridWise Alliance
GridWise Alliance is a consortium of public and private stakeholders who are aligned around a shared vision. A vision of an electric system that integrates the infrastructure, processes, devices, information and market structure so that energy can be generated, distributed, and consumed more efficiently and cost effectively; thereby achieving a more resilient, secure and reliable energy system. The Alliance members recognize that emerging energy and information technologies have the potential to radically improve the efficient use of the nation’s energy system. The Alliance and its members advocate change locally, regionally, and nationally to promote new policies and technology solutions that move us closer to this vision.

The Alliance provides a forum where members representing a broad range of interests in the electricity sector can meet, exchange ideas, and work cooperatively on a common set of issues, with the goal of moving our industrial-age electric grid into the information age. In addition, the Alliance provides its members with opportunities to interact with senior policy makers on both the federal and state level who, together with industry, will transform the nation’s electric power system.

Eka Systems is an active member of the GridWise Alliance involved in all the working groups and meetings to further cause of smart grid.
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GridWise Architectural Council

The GridWise Architecture Council (GWAC) is a team of industry leaders who are shaping the guiding principles, or architecture, of a highly intelligent and interactive electric system—one ripe with decision-making information exchange and market-based opportunities. This architecture will provide guidelines for interaction between participants and interoperability between technologies and systems.

The Council is neither a design team, nor a standards making body. Our role is to help identify areas for standardization that allow significant levels of interoperation between system components. We are helping to outline a philosophy of inter-system operation that preserves the freedom to innovate, design, implement and maintain each organization's portion of the electrical system.

Eka Systems is actively involved in creating open interoperable standards between systems and components in the Smart Grid. Eka Systems proposed a working group specifically on AMI communications and networking which was recently adopted by the council.
> Visit GridWise Architectural Council

Modern Grid Initative

The National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL), part of DOE’s national laboratory system, is owned and operated by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). NETL supports DOE’s mission to advance the national, economic, and energy security of the United States.

The only U.S. national laboratory devoted to fossil energy research, NETL implements a broad spectrum of energy and environmental research and development (R&D) programs that will return benefits for generations to come:

In addition to research conducted onsite, NETL’s project portfolio includes R&D conducted through partnerships, cooperative research and development agreements, financial assistance, and contractual arrangements with universities and the private sector. Together, these efforts focus a wealth of scientific and engineering talent on creating commercially viable solutions to national energy and environmental problems.

Eka Systems plans to be involved in the NETL activities for AMI solutions that enable the Smart Grid through our partners.
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IntellGrid Architecture

Architecture for the Intelligent Electricity, Energy and Utility Services Grid of the Future
This site contains the documentation associated with the IntelliGrid Architecture Project. The IntelliGrid Architecture is a world-wide and industry-wide project to develop the infrastructures necessary to support the next generation of energy conversion, delivery and end-use systems. The IntelliGrid Architecture builds upon work within several developing and emerging open standards to enable not only interoperable equipment but provide a framework for the development of the next generation of automation applications.

Eka Systems is actively engaged with Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) in setting up test-bed and trails for AMI solutions.
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IntellGrid

Electric Power Research Institute’s (EPRI's) IntelliGridSM initiative is creating the technical foundation for a smart power grid that links electricity with communications and computer control to achieve tremendous gains in reliability, capacity, and customer services. A major early product is the IntelliGrid Architecture, an open-standard, requirements-based approach for integrating data networks and equipment that enables interoperability between products and systems. This program provides utilities with the methodology, tools and recommendations for standards and technologies when implementing systems such as advanced metering, distribution automation, demand response, and wide-area measurement. The program also provides utilities with independent, unbiased testing of technologies and vendor products.

Eka Systems AMI products and solutions have been selected to be part of this program.
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Utility Standards Board (USB)

The Utility Standards Board is a group of utilities working on AMI and MDM interface standards to exchange information and discuss plans for proposing a “de facto” system interface standards in an accelerated time frame. Specifications defined by this group will be folded into work being done at UtilityAMI working groups.

Eka Systems has been actively involved responding to RFIs, proposing specifications and working with the group in defining the standards.