On-Ramp Wireless Partners With Ecologic Analytics
Interoperable solution provides end-to-end, best of breed solution for smart metering
September 27, 2011 12:13 PM Eastern Daylight Time
SAN DIEGO & BLOOMINGTON, Minn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--On-Ramp Wireless today announced its partnership with leading meter data management system (MDMS) solution provider Ecologic Analytics. With its simple star topology infrastructure, On-Ramp's Ultra-Link Processing™ (ULP) wireless infrastructure system works with Ecologic's MDMS solution to provide a pre-validated, pre-integrated communications solution for multi-service utilities. Yesterday, On-Ramp announced its meter communication modules for the Smart Meter AMI space. Now, in partnership with Ecologic, On-Ramp offers a complete end-to-end smart metering solution.
The ULP system and Ecologic MDMS solution are based on the International Electrotechnical Commission's (IEC) 61968 Part 9 interface. This interoperability standard provides a CIM (common interface model) gateway for meter reading and control data to be exchanged between On-Ramp's ULP radio network interface (RNI) head end system and the Ecologic MDM application.
Using this standards-based approach to pre-integrate and test the systems is a fundamental principle for the strategic alliance between On-Ramp Wireless and Ecologic Analytics. The pre-integration and testing work eliminates time spent in the field building ad-hoc interfaces that extend the duration of the project.
The integration between these two systems provides functionality for electric meter data, including:
Interval reads down to fifteen minutes
On demand meter reads
Firmware broadcast updates, as well as broadcast and unicast data
"The pre-integrated Smart Meter solution we are bringing to market with Ecologic Analytics allows utility customers worldwide to take advantage of the unique technical benefits of the ULP system, enjoying significant cost savings that our simple star topology network delivers," said Joaquin Silva, President and CEO of On-Ramp. "Working with a strategic partner like Ecologic will help speed up the adoption of our ULP wireless platform for Smart Metering. Pre-integrating the systems will help drive cost even lower for utilities, which will help them achieve a faster ROI."
"We are pleased to be collaborating with On-Ramp to pre-integrate their solution with the Ecologic MDMS," said John Galloway, executive vice president of business development and marketing for Ecologic Analytics. "The goal of our pre-integrated solution program is to streamline integration projects in the field and accelerate the realization of benefits of interoperable solutions when deployed."
The pre-integrated solution for electric meter data is available today.
About On-Ramp Wireless
On-Ramp Wireless has developed the first wireless system purpose-built to efficiently connect billions of hard-to-reach devices in metro scale and other challenging environments. On-Ramp's field-proven Ultra-Link Processing™ system enables low-power monitoring and control applications within Smart Grid, water efficiency, industrial sensing, and location tracking. Operating in un-licensed spectrum, our signal processing innovation finds weak signals even in high noise environments, yielding extreme coverage, immunity to high interference, and significantly lowers cost. For more information, visit www.onrampwireless.com.
About Ecologic Analytics
Ecologic Analytics, LLC is the leading provider of meter data management (MDM) applications based on International standards serving electric, natural gas and water utilities. The Ecologic MDM continuously validates more than 540-million meter reads every day for Smart Grid leading utilities, transforming the data consumed from advanced metering infrastructure (AMI)/smart meter endpoints into accurate, timely and actionable information for decision making across the utility. The Ecologic MDM application is a flexible, configurable and highly scalable enterprise software solution that receives data from any AMI/AMR system and/or manual source, supporting the dynamic operational and business processes needed for Smart Grid initiatives. Founded in 2000, the company is headquartered in Bloomington, Minnesota. For more information, visit www.ecologicanalytics.com.
Vantage Communications for On-Ramp
Tory Patrick, +1-202-558-9826
tpatrick@pr-vantage.com
Ecologic Analytics
Matt Schwarz, +1-952-237-8084
mschwarz@ecoanalytics.com
On-Ramp Wireless partners with Ecologic Analytics - interoperable solution provides end-to-end, best of breed solution for smart metering