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United States : FIRSTENERGY offers contract to ITRON for over 2 million smart meters and OPENWAY smart grid platform [TendersInfo (India)](TendersInfo (India) Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) FirstEnergy has offered a contract to Itron to provide over 2 million smart meters and its OpenWay smart grid platform for its four Pennsylvania-based utilities - Metropolitan Edison, Pennsylvania Electric, Pennsylvania Power and West Penn Power. All the four utilities will receive Itron smart meters and a platform that Itron developed along with Cisco. The platform is build around an IPv6 network architecture, that can manage far more smart meter data than conventional architectures. VP of corporate marketing and communications at Itron, Sharelynn Moore, said : 'These aren't metering networks. These are smart grid networks. FirstEnergy is investing in architectures that will stand the test of time to support applications beyond meters.' (c) 2014 Euclid Infotech Pvt. Ltd. Provided by Syndigate.info, an Albawaba.com company |