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Joint-Use Utility Infrastructure: Real-World Applications and Troubleshooting with Electric and Gas Utilities
ComEd (Exelon), an electric utility, provides access to its fully built-out industry level, secured AMI network to the gas utilities, Peoples and North Shore Gas (WEC Group). This allows 1.2 million gas meters to gain the benefits of AMI technology without the investment in time and money of building out a separate single-use network. Multi-purpose networks such as ComEd’s, which contains ComEd’s AMI electric meters and smart streetlights, alongside an external natural gas utilities’ smart gas meters (in addition to external municipality-owned smart water meters) are both a novel and an efficient solution in the modern communities these utilities serve. A year into this partnership, the two distinct utilities have established a variety of protocols for managing the deployment and the successful communication of smart gas meters on ComEd's AMI mesh network. With almost a quarter of a million gas endpoints deployed to date, day to day operations and collaboration between the two utilities is crucial to managing the partnership. The operations aspect involves two separate companies with their own data access and data visibility, institutional field knowledge, and two different work management processes. This session will focus on the application of a range of radiofrequency remediation solutions to reinforce and strengthen the mesh network, including but not limited to socketAPs, relays, smart streetlights, MPACs, as well as upcoming devices such as the streetlight microAP. Troubleshooting devices like the FSU and IMR are also within scope. The partnership is founded on collaboration using such technologies, data management, and deployment strategies, as steps are taken to move to steady-state operations.
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Tuesday General Session
On Tuesday morning, join Dr. Michael Webber—noted author, documentary producer, Josey Centennial Professor in Energy Resources and Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin—for a discussion about the trends shaping the future of energy and water delivery; artificial intelligence (AI) and its potential for improving the management of these resources; and what we can do to help propel the industry forward on our journey to a cleaner energy and water economy.
Concluding this General Session, Itron’s Ben Huggins will present the annual Itron Innovator Award, which recognizes a utility or city customer that has leveraged our partner enablement programs to deliver a breakthrough solution that solves challenges in energy/water efficiency and smart communities.
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North American Gas Meters: Product Update for the Intelis Gas Meter
Learn about the latest updates on Intelis 250 Gas Meter and Intelis 425 Gas Meter including additional safety benefits with high pressure shutoff.
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Excelerate Your Analysis: Accessing your MV-90 xi data in the Blink of an Eye
Preparing meter data for analysis and delivery to external reports in Excel can require multiple steps of exporting, organizing, and formatting. Using Power Query in the latest version of Microsoft Excel to tap directly into MV-Web (or ODBC exports from MV-90 xi) Central Iowa Power Cooperative (CIPCO) will demonstrate bringing data directly into a spreadsheet with no macros or special plugins. Code examples and build details will be shared to prepare data from multiple meters in a few simple steps in your own organization.
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Golden State Grid: Lessons from Adapting to Evolving Weather, Resiliency, & Sustainability Challenges in California
Discover the intricate dynamics of California's distinctive utility distribution networks as we delve into the challenges and innovations shaping its landscape. Utilities will share insights on navigating the converging challenges of electrification, rapid EV and solar adoption, regulatory complexities, rising consumer expectations and carbon reduction initiatives. Further, as a region susceptible to severe weather events, water scarcity and wildfires, California has confronted its fair share of challenges. Learn how utilities and cities are implementing technology solutions to ensure the safety and reliability of their energy and water systems, securing a sustainable energy future for communities statewide.
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Leveraging Temetra to Maximize the Value of Your ChoiceConnect Fixed Network System
This session will focus on the unique benefits Temetra brings when used with a ChoiceConnect Fixed Network to provide data storage and presentment, contingency read capabilities and the option to seamlessly deploy cellular endpoints.
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Enhancing Customer Safety with Distributed Intelligence
Discovering and addressing potential safety concerns on your low-voltage distribution network is paramount. Having visibility into issues associated with outages and fires, energy theft and hot sockets can prevent catastrophic situations. Through the Safety Bundle, distributed intelligence applications such as High Impedance Detection, Meter Bypass Detection and Active Temperature Monitoring detect and locate poor electrical connections, discover meter tampering and energy diversion, and use high-resolution temperature readings to detect meter socket problems, respectively—all before they create a safety hazard or interrupt service. Learn how utilities are decreasing customer outage minutes, minimizing repair costs and field visits, and ultimately ensuring customer safety and satisfaction with distributed intelligence applications.
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Modernizing & Simplifying Energy Distribution with Integrated Distributed Intelligence (DI) & ADMS Solutions
As homeowners and businesses increasingly adopt distributed energy resources (DERs), or behind-the-meter assets, the need for asset visibility at the grid edge is increasingly important. The digitalization of electricity demand and supply is possible when ADMS and DI are integrated. In this session, you’ll learn how utilities are extending energy orchestration to behind-the-meter assets and enabling these grid assets when and where they are needed. This session will allow you to hear about the key challenges that utilities face today due to lack of visibility; learn how ADMS plus DI enables grid operators to gain greater situational awareness and real-time insights, with key measurements, notifications, and events like downed wires; and understand how this integration delivers value to customers across multiple business units, whether through infrastructure investment, grid planning and operations or asset management.
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Leveraging IEE's capabilities for Settlements in Australia, North America, and the UK
For wholesale or retail settlements, many utilities & operators have the obligation to collect data, process the data, and submit the data to the market's settlement authority by a certain deadline. Learn how IEE's capabilities have been leveraged in Australia, North America, and the UK to support hourly, 30 minutes, and 5 minutes settlements. With our add-on Service Mode collection of large generation & transmission meters and commercial & industrial meters, and our pre-built integration with Itron head ends for residential AMI & streetlights data collection, both wholesale & retail settlements data can be collected and managed by IEE MDM. All data goes through the same consistent VEE & aggregation processes and can be submitted to the market's settlement authority through IEE's extensive standard APIs or our add-on market messaging module.
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Wildfire Prevention for Safer Grid Management
Accurate wildfire prevention, detection and immediate response within the utility landscape is crucial due to a critical challenge in reducing the ignition gap and minimizing the risk of wildfires. By integrating with existing monitoring and response systems, a solution exists that not only alerts relevant personnel in real-time but also facilitates seamless coordination and response, minimizes false alarms through comprehensive validation methods, directs resources towards real threats and optimizes response efficiency. Learn how utilities are focusing on real-time monitoring, advanced AI technology, and seamless integration to take proactive measures in preventing ignition events, safeguarding infrastructure and protecting customers.
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Mobile Hardware Update
With more than 40 years of experience building leading meter-reading and field-deployment solutions, Itron understands the challenges facing your meter-reading and maintenance workforce. This session will present the newest offering of mobile radios and handheld devices supported by Itron. You will also hear an update on Mobile Collector family of drive-by radios, along with the many hardware computing choices available for your meter data collection and meter deployment.
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Achieving Real-time Transformer Visibility & Awareness
Many utilities currently lack real-time visibility into the secondary distribution grid network. Having this visibility is critical as the grid gets more dynamic due to the increasing penetration of EV charging and solar generation, and as you are asked to extract more out of existing grid assets. In addition, having continuous awareness of your device’s electrical connectivity in relation to other grid assets provides the ability to monitor and control your secondary distribution network. Through the Transformer Awareness Bundle, distributed intelligence applications such as Active Transformer Load Monitoring, Active Transformer Voltage Monitoring, Location Awareness and Virtual RTU/DNP3 Gateway provide real-time information and detection of distribution transformer events (specifically loading and voltage), enable ADMS management and protection of distribution transformers, minimize repair costs and enhance reliability, resiliency and predictability. Learn how utilities are monitoring their transformers in real-time and gaining valuable, actionable insights.
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Operationalizing AMI Data with Your Existing Network
Having a massive amount of data available at your fingertips through grid edge intelligence solutions is amazing, but understanding and applying it to glean insights is where the most value is obtained. But how do you transform that data into those insights? Learn how you can wade through volumes of data to inform effective planning, engineering and operations, and provides data accuracy, ensuring you make informed decisions and navigate a transforming grid with confidence. From present-day operations to future-focused planning, hear how utilities are empowered to adapt to evolving demands and a changing energy landscape using advanced analytics, seamless integration and a scalable approach.
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Planning your Migration from FCS/MVRS to Temetra
Are you on track to migrate from FCS to Temetra by 2028? In this session we will review the key considerations when migrating from FCS to Temetra to help you prepare for your future.
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MV-90 xi User Forum Part 2
Have a question or topic that you want to discuss with other MV-90 xi users and/or Itron personnel? This forum provides an opportunity for that!
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Unlocking Opportunities: Navigating the Infrastructure Investment & Jobs Act (IIJA) Together
Dive into the latest insights on the Infrastructure Investment & Jobs Act (IIJA), a historic $1.2 trillion dollar investment in U.S. infrastructure, and its ongoing impacts on the industry. Itron has partnered with many of our customers to research, understand, prepare and submit IIJA funding applications to maximize their ability to capture funding investments in their own communities. Join this conversation as we explore winning strategies and new ways to collaborate with more industry stakeholders to highlight the benefits of these programs to the broader community, outside of utility and city operational efficiencies. We’ll explore use cases such as smart streetlighting, load control, EV fleet management, and Distributed Energy Resource Optimization (DERO) powered by robust industrial IoT networks to help you position yourself to secure future funding opportunities.
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Exploring Itron's Cellular IoT Strategy for Water, Gas and Battery-Powered Devices
The utility segment continues to be a leading growth area for Cellular IoT solutions. However, navigating the mix of acronyms and rapidly evolving functionality related to Cellular IoT, 5G and other wireless technologies can be complex even for the most seasoned telecommunications professionals. Join this session to learn more about Itron’s cellular strategy as we explore new ways to leverage the enhanced coverage, capacity, lower power consumption and reduced costs of new cellular technologies specifically designed to support battery-powered water and gas solutions. Attendees will hear key updates to our portfolio, focusing on new use cases for gas and water, enabled by our cellular endpoints. We will also explore various use cases suited for cellular technologies including 5G, LTE-M, NB1 and more.
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MV-90 xi Database Disaster Recovery Processes
As an IT Administrator for the MV90 Environments at Great River Energy we strive to partner with our Meter Data Technicians and Meter Data Specialists to have a Development system that is very much a working mirror of our Production system. This talk will cover what we do on a normal basis to keep each our systems in sync and updated for our business partners.
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Tuesday General Session
On Tuesday morning, join Dr. Michael Webber—noted author, documentary producer, Josey Centennial Professor in Energy Resources and Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin—for a discussion about the trends shaping the future of energy and water delivery; artificial intelligence (AI) and its potential for improving the management of these resources; and what we can do to help propel the industry forward on our journey to a cleaner energy and water economy.
Concluding this General Session, Itron’s Ben Huggins will present the annual Itron Innovator Award, which recognizes a utility or city customer that has leveraged our partner enablement programs to deliver a breakthrough solution that solves challenges in energy/water efficiency and smart communities.
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Monday General Session
Join Todd L. Inlander, senior vice president and chief information officer of Southern California Edison and Tom Deitrich, president and CEO of Itron, as they discuss the ongoing transformation of our industry, and how leveraging more intelligence throughout the distribution system can lead to more possibilities for innovation and efficiency to help drive transformation.
Itron’s Marina Donovan will also discuss the findings from our latest Itron Resourcefulness Insight Report.
Farah Saeed of Frost & Sullivan concludes the opening general session with the presentation of the 2024 Excellence in Resourcefulness Awards.
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Big Picture Session: Navigating the Journey Toward Sustainability
The journey toward decarbonization and achieving sustainability goals is at the forefront of how utilities operate, today and into the future. It also presents challenges – from meeting government mandates to finding employees with new skills and engaging consumers in new ways. During this Big Picture Session, learn how electricity, gas and water utilities are tackling these challenges and leveraging technology, policy frameworks and stakeholder collaboration to drive impactful change and create a carbon-neutral future.
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Big Picture Session: Grid Edge Intelligence and the Role of Data Governance
As utilities navigate the energy transition and the associated influx of distributed energy resources, grid edge intelligence is playing an important role in enabling visibility and control at the edge. As utilities strive to ensure grid reliability, resiliency and sustainability, data governance is critical to safeguarding the integrity and security of data and ensuring consumer privacy. During this Big Picture Session, industry experts will discuss innovative approaches to data ownership and management amid the energy transition.
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Women Who Inspire Session
Celebrate the women helping drive our industry forward. Featuring a panel of female leaders in our industry, this is open to all attendees. The panel will discuss timely topics ranging from career paths, managing work/life balance, roles men play in supporting women in their careers, and much more.
Both women and men are invited to join us for this year’s Women Who Inspire session. Session attendees will learn tips to drive cultural change within their organization to ignite and accelerate innovation.
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Joint-Use Utility Infrastructure: Real-World Applications and Troubleshooting with Electric and Gas Utilities
ComEd (Exelon), an electric utility, provides access to its fully built-out industry level, secured AMI network to the gas utilities, Peoples and North Shore Gas (WEC Group). This allows 1.2 million gas meters to gain the benefits of AMI technology without the investment in time and money of building out a separate single-use network. Multi-purpose networks such as ComEd’s, which contains ComEd’s AMI electric meters and smart streetlights, alongside an external natural gas utilities’ smart gas meters (in addition to external municipality-owned smart water meters) are both a novel and an efficient solution in the modern communities these utilities serve. A year into this partnership, the two distinct utilities have established a variety of protocols for managing the deployment and the successful communication of smart gas meters on ComEd's AMI mesh network. With almost a quarter of a million gas endpoints deployed to date, day to day operations and collaboration between the two utilities is crucial to managing the partnership. The operations aspect involves two separate companies with their own data access and data visibility, institutional field knowledge, and two different work management processes. This session will focus on the application of a range of radiofrequency remediation solutions to reinforce and strengthen the mesh network, including but not limited to socketAPs, relays, smart streetlights, MPACs, as well as upcoming devices such as the streetlight microAP. Troubleshooting devices like the FSU and IMR are also within scope. The partnership is founded on collaboration using such technologies, data management, and deployment strategies, as steps are taken to move to steady-state operations.
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Golden State Grid: Lessons from Adapting to Evolving Weather, Resiliency, & Sustainability Challenges in California
Discover the intricate dynamics of California's distinctive utility distribution networks as we delve into the challenges and innovations shaping its landscape. Utilities will share insights on navigating the converging challenges of electrification, rapid EV and solar adoption, regulatory complexities, rising consumer expectations and carbon reduction initiatives. Further, as a region susceptible to severe weather events, water scarcity and wildfires, California has confronted its fair share of challenges. Learn how utilities and cities are implementing technology solutions to ensure the safety and reliability of their energy and water systems, securing a sustainable energy future for communities statewide.
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Leveraging Temetra to Maximize the Value of Your ChoiceConnect Fixed Network System
This session will focus on the unique benefits Temetra brings when used with a ChoiceConnect Fixed Network to provide data storage and presentment, contingency read capabilities and the option to seamlessly deploy cellular endpoints.
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Enhancing Customer Safety with Distributed Intelligence
Discovering and addressing potential safety concerns on your low-voltage distribution network is paramount. Having visibility into issues associated with outages and fires, energy theft and hot sockets can prevent catastrophic situations. Through the Safety Bundle, distributed intelligence applications such as High Impedance Detection, Meter Bypass Detection and Active Temperature Monitoring detect and locate poor electrical connections, discover meter tampering and energy diversion, and use high-resolution temperature readings to detect meter socket problems, respectively—all before they create a safety hazard or interrupt service. Learn how utilities are decreasing customer outage minutes, minimizing repair costs and field visits, and ultimately ensuring customer safety and satisfaction with distributed intelligence applications.
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Modernizing & Simplifying Energy Distribution with Integrated Distributed Intelligence (DI) & ADMS Solutions
As homeowners and businesses increasingly adopt distributed energy resources (DERs), or behind-the-meter assets, the need for asset visibility at the grid edge is increasingly important. The digitalization of electricity demand and supply is possible when ADMS and DI are integrated. In this session, you’ll learn how utilities are extending energy orchestration to behind-the-meter assets and enabling these grid assets when and where they are needed. This session will allow you to hear about the key challenges that utilities face today due to lack of visibility; learn how ADMS plus DI enables grid operators to gain greater situational awareness and real-time insights, with key measurements, notifications, and events like downed wires; and understand how this integration delivers value to customers across multiple business units, whether through infrastructure investment, grid planning and operations or asset management.
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Leveraging IEE's capabilities for Settlements in Australia, North America, and the UK
For wholesale or retail settlements, many utilities & operators have the obligation to collect data, process the data, and submit the data to the market's settlement authority by a certain deadline. Learn how IEE's capabilities have been leveraged in Australia, North America, and the UK to support hourly, 30 minutes, and 5 minutes settlements. With our add-on Service Mode collection of large generation & transmission meters and commercial & industrial meters, and our pre-built integration with Itron head ends for residential AMI & streetlights data collection, both wholesale & retail settlements data can be collected and managed by IEE MDM. All data goes through the same consistent VEE & aggregation processes and can be submitted to the market's settlement authority through IEE's extensive standard APIs or our add-on market messaging module.
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Wildfire Prevention for Safer Grid Management
Accurate wildfire prevention, detection and immediate response within the utility landscape is crucial due to a critical challenge in reducing the ignition gap and minimizing the risk of wildfires. By integrating with existing monitoring and response systems, a solution exists that not only alerts relevant personnel in real-time but also facilitates seamless coordination and response, minimizes false alarms through comprehensive validation methods, directs resources towards real threats and optimizes response efficiency. Learn how utilities are focusing on real-time monitoring, advanced AI technology, and seamless integration to take proactive measures in preventing ignition events, safeguarding infrastructure and protecting customers.
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Achieving Real-time Transformer Visibility & Awareness
Many utilities currently lack real-time visibility into the secondary distribution grid network. Having this visibility is critical as the grid gets more dynamic due to the increasing penetration of EV charging and solar generation, and as you are asked to extract more out of existing grid assets. In addition, having continuous awareness of your device’s electrical connectivity in relation to other grid assets provides the ability to monitor and control your secondary distribution network. Through the Transformer Awareness Bundle, distributed intelligence applications such as Active Transformer Load Monitoring, Active Transformer Voltage Monitoring, Location Awareness and Virtual RTU/DNP3 Gateway provide real-time information and detection of distribution transformer events (specifically loading and voltage), enable ADMS management and protection of distribution transformers, minimize repair costs and enhance reliability, resiliency and predictability. Learn how utilities are monitoring their transformers in real-time and gaining valuable, actionable insights.
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Operationalizing AMI Data with Your Existing Network
Having a massive amount of data available at your fingertips through grid edge intelligence solutions is amazing, but understanding and applying it to glean insights is where the most value is obtained. But how do you transform that data into those insights? Learn how you can wade through volumes of data to inform effective planning, engineering and operations, and provides data accuracy, ensuring you make informed decisions and navigate a transforming grid with confidence. From present-day operations to future-focused planning, hear how utilities are empowered to adapt to evolving demands and a changing energy landscape using advanced analytics, seamless integration and a scalable approach.
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Unlocking Opportunities: Navigating the Infrastructure Investment & Jobs Act (IIJA) Together
Dive into the latest insights on the Infrastructure Investment & Jobs Act (IIJA), a historic $1.2 trillion dollar investment in U.S. infrastructure, and its ongoing impacts on the industry. Itron has partnered with many of our customers to research, understand, prepare and submit IIJA funding applications to maximize their ability to capture funding investments in their own communities. Join this conversation as we explore winning strategies and new ways to collaborate with more industry stakeholders to highlight the benefits of these programs to the broader community, outside of utility and city operational efficiencies. We’ll explore use cases such as smart streetlighting, load control, EV fleet management, and Distributed Energy Resource Optimization (DERO) powered by robust industrial IoT networks to help you position yourself to secure future funding opportunities.
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Enhancing Accuracy & Efficiency through Automating Distributed Intelligence Meter Testing
Amidst the growing complexity of metering systems, the need for efficient and accurate testing is paramount—specifically for distributed intelligence applications. This session explores various approaches to testing distributed intelligence agents which demonstrates a professional methodology, quality agents that work the first time when deployed, the diversity of use cases DI can address and how the collaboration and partnership between utilities and solution providers is key to the energy transition. In addition, this session will highlight the broader implications of these advancements for the metering industry and a glimpse into potential future enhancements in automated testing methodologies.
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Proactively Predicting Water Pipe Failure Using Artificial Intelligence
Utilities grapple with the daunting task of allocating capital investment and operational resources effectively for pipe replacement, rehabilitation, and monitoring. Each year, significant funds are spent replacing water mains still in good condition, while the frequency of main failures rises due to the lack of precise tools for identifying impending failures. Enter artificial intelligence, particularly machine learning (AI/ML), offering utilities a revolutionary approach to predict water main failures and optimize resource utilization. Cutting-edge AI/ML platforms harness a data-driven methodology, analyzing past failures alongside numerous variables such as soil composition and weather patterns to discern patterns and forecast potential failures. Armed with this predictive capability, utilities can strategically allocate resources, mitigating main failures, enhancing customer service, and maximizing the value extracted from constrained capital budgets. Discover how utilities can now leverage AI and predictive modeling for effective pipe failure prediction.
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Using AI to Orchestrate Activity on the Edge
Having a traditional Advanced Distribution Management Systems (ADMS) enables a utility to execute control on a transmission grid. What happens when an ADMS or Grid DERMS integrates with an Edge DERMS? Who controls activity, the Grid DERMS, the Edge DERMS or a concert of both systems? This session will explore the use Artificial Intelligence (AI) in harmonizing the activities of both systems.
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Journey to the Cloud
When utilities decide to migrate their hosting to the IEE Cloud, they often are unsure what to expect for the migration process. In this case study, learn about one utility's journey as they moved from on-premise to the cloud, lessons learned and results after the migration. Hear their business case for moving and what it is now helping them achieve. The session will provide a general overview of the value of moving to the cloud, SLAs, features, monitoring, etc.
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Hydro One Grid Edge Innovation Program & DI App Lab Innovation Center
Hydro One is proactively preparing for the energy transition by adopting grid edge solutions, with a focus on distributed intelligence. Hear about results and lessons learned from their testing and how they used a phased approach with multiple environments to validate business value and to inform their technical and business designs for large-scale deployment of DI applications. Learn about key findings on this experience based on their small-scale “distribution model” in a metering lab used to test DI apps and their real-world lab environment of 500 customers (the opt-in “myEnergy Connect” program) which includes a second in series meter at each premise that is utilized for innovation. In addition, attendees will hear about results related to the customer experience.
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Itron’s Continued Commitment to Sustainability
Itron’s commitment to sustainability and environmental, social and governance (ESG) practices is core to how we create a more resourceful world. We have a holistic approach to sustainability, which is embedded in all areas of our business. Our solutions help our customers and end users save energy and water resources. Come see how the solutions you are already using are helping you on your journey to be more sustainable and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. You will also learn how our new solutions can further accelerate your sustainability initiatives.
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Granularity Matters - Why Move to 5-Minute Intervals
This session will explore the pioneering shift that SMUD is making towards more granular data collection and management. This session will delve into the reasons behind the transition to 5-minute intervals for monitoring energy usage, the expected benefit on both the grid's efficiency and customer billing, and the technological advancements enabling this change. Participants will gain insights into how this finer resolution of data can lead to more accurate demand forecasts, improved response to peak load periods, and enhanced integration of renewable energy sources. The discussion will also cover the challenges and opportunities that come with the implementation of such a detailed approach to transition to 5-minute intervals.
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Accelerate Time-to-Value for New Use Cases: Introducing Itron's Unified Platform
Discover how our new, integrated platform simplifies the user experience by combining diverse functionalities in a unified view. Learn about its rapid value realization and cost-effectiveness, by streamlining the integration and deployment processes. We'll explore the new possibilities enabled by our new platform, including advanced use cases, Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning applications, and robust security features. Don't miss the opportunity to see how our platform, set to launch at Inspire, can transform your operations by quickly enabling advanced analytics capability for business value.
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Excelerate Your Analysis: Accessing your MV-90 xi data in the Blink of an Eye
Preparing meter data for analysis and delivery to external reports in Excel can require multiple steps of exporting, organizing, and formatting. Using Power Query in the latest version of Microsoft Excel to tap directly into MV-Web (or ODBC exports from MV-90 xi) Central Iowa Power Cooperative (CIPCO) will demonstrate bringing data directly into a spreadsheet with no macros or special plugins. Code examples and build details will be shared to prepare data from multiple meters in a few simple steps in your own organization.
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Leveraging IEE's capabilities for Settlements in Australia, North America, and the UK
For wholesale or retail settlements, many utilities & operators have the obligation to collect data, process the data, and submit the data to the market's settlement authority by a certain deadline. Learn how IEE's capabilities have been leveraged in Australia, North America, and the UK to support hourly, 30 minutes, and 5 minutes settlements. With our add-on Service Mode collection of large generation & transmission meters and commercial & industrial meters, and our pre-built integration with Itron head ends for residential AMI & streetlights data collection, both wholesale & retail settlements data can be collected and managed by IEE MDM. All data goes through the same consistent VEE & aggregation processes and can be submitted to the market's settlement authority through IEE's extensive standard APIs or our add-on market messaging module.
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MV-90 xi User Forum Part 2
Have a question or topic that you want to discuss with other MV-90 xi users and/or Itron personnel? This forum provides an opportunity for that!
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MV-90 xi Database Disaster Recovery Processes
As an IT Administrator for the MV90 Environments at Great River Energy we strive to partner with our Meter Data Technicians and Meter Data Specialists to have a Development system that is very much a working mirror of our Production system. This talk will cover what we do on a normal basis to keep each our systems in sync and updated for our business partners.
-
Proactively Predicting Water Pipe Failure Using Artificial Intelligence
Utilities grapple with the daunting task of allocating capital investment and operational resources effectively for pipe replacement, rehabilitation, and monitoring. Each year, significant funds are spent replacing water mains still in good condition, while the frequency of main failures rises due to the lack of precise tools for identifying impending failures. Enter artificial intelligence, particularly machine learning (AI/ML), offering utilities a revolutionary approach to predict water main failures and optimize resource utilization. Cutting-edge AI/ML platforms harness a data-driven methodology, analyzing past failures alongside numerous variables such as soil composition and weather patterns to discern patterns and forecast potential failures. Armed with this predictive capability, utilities can strategically allocate resources, mitigating main failures, enhancing customer service, and maximizing the value extracted from constrained capital budgets. Discover how utilities can now leverage AI and predictive modeling for effective pipe failure prediction.
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Journey to the Cloud
When utilities decide to migrate their hosting to the IEE Cloud, they often are unsure what to expect for the migration process. In this case study, learn about one utility's journey as they moved from on-premise to the cloud, lessons learned and results after the migration. Hear their business case for moving and what it is now helping them achieve. The session will provide a general overview of the value of moving to the cloud, SLAs, features, monitoring, etc.
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Migrating Gas Data Management from AMR to AMI
When Southwest Gas started migrating their AMR meters to AMI, they developed a transition plan which allows them to continue using one data management system as they transition to an AMI Essentials package. They were able to do this because the new data management system reads all their meters – AMR, AMI, multi-vendor, as well as cellular ERTs. Learn how the migration is going, lessons learned, and the benefits they are already seeing.
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Itron’s Continued Commitment to Sustainability
Itron’s commitment to sustainability and environmental, social and governance (ESG) practices is core to how we create a more resourceful world. We have a holistic approach to sustainability, which is embedded in all areas of our business. Our solutions help our customers and end users save energy and water resources. Come see how the solutions you are already using are helping you on your journey to be more sustainable and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. You will also learn how our new solutions can further accelerate your sustainability initiatives.
-
Granularity Matters - Why Move to 5-Minute Intervals
This session will explore the pioneering shift that SMUD is making towards more granular data collection and management. This session will delve into the reasons behind the transition to 5-minute intervals for monitoring energy usage, the expected benefit on both the grid's efficiency and customer billing, and the technological advancements enabling this change. Participants will gain insights into how this finer resolution of data can lead to more accurate demand forecasts, improved response to peak load periods, and enhanced integration of renewable energy sources. The discussion will also cover the challenges and opportunities that come with the implementation of such a detailed approach to transition to 5-minute intervals.
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Accelerate Time-to-Value for New Use Cases: Introducing Itron's Unified Platform
Discover how our new, integrated platform simplifies the user experience by combining diverse functionalities in a unified view. Learn about its rapid value realization and cost-effectiveness, by streamlining the integration and deployment processes. We'll explore the new possibilities enabled by our new platform, including advanced use cases, Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning applications, and robust security features. Don't miss the opportunity to see how our platform, set to launch at Inspire, can transform your operations by quickly enabling advanced analytics capability for business value.
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Detecting System-Wide Leaks via Acoustic Sensing
A hilly geographical terrain combined with natural springs that drain to a lake presents challenges for detecting and locating leaks in Northwest Arkansas. As a result, a large percentage of leaks never surface which incur in large water loss. In order to proactively detect this non-revenue water loss, Rogers Water Utility developed a program which utilizes acoustic leak sensors and transmits the data collected to mlogonline software to continually assess pipeline integrity. These acoustic leak sensors are placed at strategic locations throughout their distribution system and have identified several unreported leaks, including one estimated at approximately 500,000 gallons per day. The sensors have also identified recurring leaks and minor leaks (close to major leaks) that a traditional acoustic leak survey might have missed. This session will highlight the value in identifying leaks, reducing their impacts (including changes in typical tank levels, water audit key performance indicators, and wholesale purchased water savings) and understanding the benefits of adopting acoustic leak sensing solutions. Every drop of clean water is precious and finding these leaks benefits utilities both financially, environmentally and publicly.
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Ensuring Gas Safety in Your Operations
Gas safety is a top priority for both you and your customers. As a responsible utility, it's crucial to manage and mitigate risks in your service area, such as gas leaks, explosions, wildfires, backhoe incursions, and pressure events. In this session, we will introduce you to the gas safety revolution and the latest advancements in metering and solutions. Learn how utilities are using solid-state gas meters and smart devices that integrate ultrasonic metrology and enhanced safety features to monitor, control, and transform their gas distribution networks through various use cases such as rapid identification of gas leaks, pressure management or proactively responding to severe weather events. Understand how the Gas Distribution Safety solution will converge these use cases into a single solution and visually renders alarms and events, allowing for quick and efficient response times. This session will provide you with a better understanding how to address your most pressing safety concerns. With increased visibility into safety events in your gas distribution system, you can take proactive measures to prevent incidents and ensure the safety of your customers and employees.
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Enhancing Water Utility Data Management with Temetra
Water utilities face rising challenges from climate, aging infrastructure and limited resources.
Learn how utilities of every size are using their meter data management platform to mitigate these challenges by harnessing the power of the data they collect.
Temetra's advanced data collection platform revolutionizes water utility management, seamlessly integrating diverse metering devices compatible with Itron's AMR/AMI network solutions. Supporting Cellular, GenX, Drive-by, walk-by AMR, and manual reading, Temetra ensures flexible and efficient data collection. Discover how Temetra is the optimal choice regardless of your data collection journey to deliver actionable insights for achieving business outcomes.
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Optimizing Your MV-90 xi Environment with Multi-Session Mode and MV-90 xi Services
In this session, Itron experts will deliver a presentation on setting up MultiSession Mode with MV-90 xi and configuring MV-90 xi clients to run as a Windows Service. MultiSession Mode enables multiple MV-90 xi and xiCOMM clients to be installed on a single server and accessible by multiple users simultaneously.
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Accelerate the Value of Your Water Deployment
AMI enables transformation in the coop and municipal sector by providing all of the necessary components to help you realize operational value now while forming the foundation for future services and advanced use cases for your smart water distribution network. By leveraging AMI Essentials, a multi-commodity, fully integrated, end-to-end solution, utilities have the elements needed to deploy and derive value their systems including a network (cellular or RF) communications platform, water communication modules (endpoints), and hosted software and deployment services. Learn how utilities are using AMI to deliver more accurate and timely data for billing purposes, reduce truck rolls required to support move ins/move outs, increase operational efficiency, improve customer service, and provide transformational visibility to granular interval and other usage data for resourceful use of water and associated conservation initiatives. Additionally, we will cover some suggested funding options to enable accelerate these advancements through IIJA funding.
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MV-90 xi User Forum Part 1
Have a question or topic that you want to discuss with other MV-90 xi users and/or Itron personnel? This forum provides an opportunity for that!
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Maintaining your MV-90 xi System for Continuous Performance
A long-time Itron customer will reveal their MV-90 xi operator's toolbox consisting of custom scripts and queries created to ensure their MV-90 xi system continuously operates at peak performance.
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Service Mode Enables MDM Benefits with Communications Enabled Meters
As utilities weigh the cost of infrastructure upgrades, and the wait times for those upgrades, many are searching for solutions they can use today to realize the benefits of powerful meter data management tools. Learn how your utility can use cellular data and other communication tools to capture data from older generation meters into your meter data management system.
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North American Gas Meters: Product Update for the Intelis Gas Meter
Learn about the latest updates on Intelis 250 Gas Meter and Intelis 425 Gas Meter including additional safety benefits with high pressure shutoff.
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Leveraging Temetra to Maximize the Value of Your ChoiceConnect Fixed Network System
This session will focus on the unique benefits Temetra brings when used with a ChoiceConnect Fixed Network to provide data storage and presentment, contingency read capabilities and the option to seamlessly deploy cellular endpoints.
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Leveraging IEE's capabilities for Settlements in Australia, North America, and the UK
For wholesale or retail settlements, many utilities & operators have the obligation to collect data, process the data, and submit the data to the market's settlement authority by a certain deadline. Learn how IEE's capabilities have been leveraged in Australia, North America, and the UK to support hourly, 30 minutes, and 5 minutes settlements. With our add-on Service Mode collection of large generation & transmission meters and commercial & industrial meters, and our pre-built integration with Itron head ends for residential AMI & streetlights data collection, both wholesale & retail settlements data can be collected and managed by IEE MDM. All data goes through the same consistent VEE & aggregation processes and can be submitted to the market's settlement authority through IEE's extensive standard APIs or our add-on market messaging module.
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Mobile Hardware Update
With more than 40 years of experience building leading meter-reading and field-deployment solutions, Itron understands the challenges facing your meter-reading and maintenance workforce. This session will present the newest offering of mobile radios and handheld devices supported by Itron. You will also hear an update on Mobile Collector family of drive-by radios, along with the many hardware computing choices available for your meter data collection and meter deployment.
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Planning your Migration from FCS/MVRS to Temetra
Are you on track to migrate from FCS to Temetra by 2028? In this session we will review the key considerations when migrating from FCS to Temetra to help you prepare for your future.
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Making the Move to AMR
Come learn how making the move to AMR creates operational efficiencies for utility companies. Learn how utilities are leveraging AMR to streamline meter reading and unlock quantifiable bottom-line savings.
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FCS/Itron Mobile Product Update
This is session includes an overview of what is new in the Field Collection System (FCS) and Itron Mobile for FCS. This session will benefit all attendees who currently use FCS or are interested in learning more about Itron Mobile for FCS.
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Migrating Gas Data Management from AMR to AMI
When Southwest Gas started migrating their AMR meters to AMI, they developed a transition plan which allows them to continue using one data management system as they transition to an AMI Essentials package. They were able to do this because the new data management system reads all their meters – AMR, AMI, multi-vendor, as well as cellular ERTs. Learn how the migration is going, lessons learned, and the benefits they are already seeing.
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Itron’s Continued Commitment to Sustainability
Itron’s commitment to sustainability and environmental, social and governance (ESG) practices is core to how we create a more resourceful world. We have a holistic approach to sustainability, which is embedded in all areas of our business. Our solutions help our customers and end users save energy and water resources. Come see how the solutions you are already using are helping you on your journey to be more sustainable and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. You will also learn how our new solutions can further accelerate your sustainability initiatives.
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Accelerate Time-to-Value for New Use Cases: Introducing Itron's Unified Platform
Discover how our new, integrated platform simplifies the user experience by combining diverse functionalities in a unified view. Learn about its rapid value realization and cost-effectiveness, by streamlining the integration and deployment processes. We'll explore the new possibilities enabled by our new platform, including advanced use cases, Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning applications, and robust security features. Don't miss the opportunity to see how our platform, set to launch at Inspire, can transform your operations by quickly enabling advanced analytics capability for business value.
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Ensuring Gas Safety in Your Operations
Gas safety is a top priority for both you and your customers. As a responsible utility, it's crucial to manage and mitigate risks in your service area, such as gas leaks, explosions, wildfires, backhoe incursions, and pressure events. In this session, we will introduce you to the gas safety revolution and the latest advancements in metering and solutions. Learn how utilities are using solid-state gas meters and smart devices that integrate ultrasonic metrology and enhanced safety features to monitor, control, and transform their gas distribution networks through various use cases such as rapid identification of gas leaks, pressure management or proactively responding to severe weather events. Understand how the Gas Distribution Safety solution will converge these use cases into a single solution and visually renders alarms and events, allowing for quick and efficient response times. This session will provide you with a better understanding how to address your most pressing safety concerns. With increased visibility into safety events in your gas distribution system, you can take proactive measures to prevent incidents and ensure the safety of your customers and employees.
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Enhancing Water Utility Data Management with Temetra
Water utilities face rising challenges from climate, aging infrastructure and limited resources.
Learn how utilities of every size are using their meter data management platform to mitigate these challenges by harnessing the power of the data they collect.
Temetra's advanced data collection platform revolutionizes water utility management, seamlessly integrating diverse metering devices compatible with Itron's AMR/AMI network solutions. Supporting Cellular, GenX, Drive-by, walk-by AMR, and manual reading, Temetra ensures flexible and efficient data collection. Discover how Temetra is the optimal choice regardless of your data collection journey to deliver actionable insights for achieving business outcomes.
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Temetra Product Update
Temetra is Itron's latest cloud-based mobile meter data collection solution. Join us to see how Temetra allows electric, gas, and water utilities efficiently dispatch routes and collect reads, while also delivering powerful new functionality in the form of long-term data storage, advanced search features, and analytics capabilities.
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Accelerate the Value of Your Water Deployment
AMI enables transformation in the coop and municipal sector by providing all of the necessary components to help you realize operational value now while forming the foundation for future services and advanced use cases for your smart water distribution network. By leveraging AMI Essentials, a multi-commodity, fully integrated, end-to-end solution, utilities have the elements needed to deploy and derive value their systems including a network (cellular or RF) communications platform, water communication modules (endpoints), and hosted software and deployment services. Learn how utilities are using AMI to deliver more accurate and timely data for billing purposes, reduce truck rolls required to support move ins/move outs, increase operational efficiency, improve customer service, and provide transformational visibility to granular interval and other usage data for resourceful use of water and associated conservation initiatives. Additionally, we will cover some suggested funding options to enable accelerate these advancements through IIJA funding.
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Building the Business Case for Gas Edge Solutions
We are in the midst of an evolution and exciting time for the gas industry. The growing adoption of ultrasonic gas metering and next-generation industrial IoT (IIoT) networking with cellular is enhancing the value proposition for safety, data analytics, operational efficiency, and gas grid edge regulatory compliance. Join this session to hear how leading gas utilities are leveraging smart meters, networks, and applications to navigate new challenges in their gas modernization strategies. Speakers will share experiences in building the business case for Gas Edge solutions, how they began the journey and the motivating catalyst for the digital transition of gas operations.
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Temetra Mobile Hands-On Demo
Smartphones and tablets have revolutionized mobile computing. Itron is doing the same for mobile meter data collection. Attendees to this session will have the opportunity to test drive Temetra Mobile, our latest product for mobile utility employees. You will load the app and meters on your smartphone and experience how this solution can optimize and enhance field operations at your company.
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Making It Easier to Do Business with Itron: Customer Experience Survey Results (Part 2)
Part of improving Customer Experience includes taking effort out of interactions and allowing our customers to get more value out of the relationship with Itron. We appreciate the feedback that customers provide and want to ensure you know that we are listening. Attend this session to learn about some of the top initiatives to address key improvement areas pointed out in our annual survey. This session will focus on support, RMAs and software quality.
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Making it Easier to Do Business with Itron: Customer Experience Survey Results (Part 1)
Part of improving Customer Experience includes taking effort out of interactions and allowing our customers to get more value out of the relationship with Itron. We appreciate the feedback that customers provide and want to ensure you know that we are listening. Attend this session to learn about some of the top initiatives to address key improvement areas pointed out in our annual survey. This session will focus on delivery, lead times and response times for quotes and contracts.
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Joint-Use Utility Infrastructure: Real-World Applications and Troubleshooting with Electric and Gas Utilities
ComEd (Exelon), an electric utility, provides access to its fully built-out industry level, secured AMI network to the gas utilities, Peoples and North Shore Gas (WEC Group). This allows 1.2 million gas meters to gain the benefits of AMI technology without the investment in time and money of building out a separate single-use network. Multi-purpose networks such as ComEd’s, which contains ComEd’s AMI electric meters and smart streetlights, alongside an external natural gas utilities’ smart gas meters (in addition to external municipality-owned smart water meters) are both a novel and an efficient solution in the modern communities these utilities serve. A year into this partnership, the two distinct utilities have established a variety of protocols for managing the deployment and the successful communication of smart gas meters on ComEd's AMI mesh network. With almost a quarter of a million gas endpoints deployed to date, day to day operations and collaboration between the two utilities is crucial to managing the partnership. The operations aspect involves two separate companies with their own data access and data visibility, institutional field knowledge, and two different work management processes. This session will focus on the application of a range of radiofrequency remediation solutions to reinforce and strengthen the mesh network, including but not limited to socketAPs, relays, smart streetlights, MPACs, as well as upcoming devices such as the streetlight microAP. Troubleshooting devices like the FSU and IMR are also within scope. The partnership is founded on collaboration using such technologies, data management, and deployment strategies, as steps are taken to move to steady-state operations.
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Golden State Grid: Lessons from Adapting to Evolving Weather, Resiliency, & Sustainability Challenges in California
Discover the intricate dynamics of California's distinctive utility distribution networks as we delve into the challenges and innovations shaping its landscape. Utilities will share insights on navigating the converging challenges of electrification, rapid EV and solar adoption, regulatory complexities, rising consumer expectations and carbon reduction initiatives. Further, as a region susceptible to severe weather events, water scarcity and wildfires, California has confronted its fair share of challenges. Learn how utilities and cities are implementing technology solutions to ensure the safety and reliability of their energy and water systems, securing a sustainable energy future for communities statewide.
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Leveraging Temetra to Maximize the Value of Your ChoiceConnect Fixed Network System
This session will focus on the unique benefits Temetra brings when used with a ChoiceConnect Fixed Network to provide data storage and presentment, contingency read capabilities and the option to seamlessly deploy cellular endpoints.
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Enhancing Customer Safety with Distributed Intelligence
Discovering and addressing potential safety concerns on your low-voltage distribution network is paramount. Having visibility into issues associated with outages and fires, energy theft and hot sockets can prevent catastrophic situations. Through the Safety Bundle, distributed intelligence applications such as High Impedance Detection, Meter Bypass Detection and Active Temperature Monitoring detect and locate poor electrical connections, discover meter tampering and energy diversion, and use high-resolution temperature readings to detect meter socket problems, respectively—all before they create a safety hazard or interrupt service. Learn how utilities are decreasing customer outage minutes, minimizing repair costs and field visits, and ultimately ensuring customer safety and satisfaction with distributed intelligence applications.
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Modernizing & Simplifying Energy Distribution with Integrated Distributed Intelligence (DI) & ADMS Solutions
As homeowners and businesses increasingly adopt distributed energy resources (DERs), or behind-the-meter assets, the need for asset visibility at the grid edge is increasingly important. The digitalization of electricity demand and supply is possible when ADMS and DI are integrated. In this session, you’ll learn how utilities are extending energy orchestration to behind-the-meter assets and enabling these grid assets when and where they are needed. This session will allow you to hear about the key challenges that utilities face today due to lack of visibility; learn how ADMS plus DI enables grid operators to gain greater situational awareness and real-time insights, with key measurements, notifications, and events like downed wires; and understand how this integration delivers value to customers across multiple business units, whether through infrastructure investment, grid planning and operations or asset management.
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Wildfire Prevention for Safer Grid Management
Accurate wildfire prevention, detection and immediate response within the utility landscape is crucial due to a critical challenge in reducing the ignition gap and minimizing the risk of wildfires. By integrating with existing monitoring and response systems, a solution exists that not only alerts relevant personnel in real-time but also facilitates seamless coordination and response, minimizes false alarms through comprehensive validation methods, directs resources towards real threats and optimizes response efficiency. Learn how utilities are focusing on real-time monitoring, advanced AI technology, and seamless integration to take proactive measures in preventing ignition events, safeguarding infrastructure and protecting customers.
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Achieving Real-time Transformer Visibility & Awareness
Many utilities currently lack real-time visibility into the secondary distribution grid network. Having this visibility is critical as the grid gets more dynamic due to the increasing penetration of EV charging and solar generation, and as you are asked to extract more out of existing grid assets. In addition, having continuous awareness of your device’s electrical connectivity in relation to other grid assets provides the ability to monitor and control your secondary distribution network. Through the Transformer Awareness Bundle, distributed intelligence applications such as Active Transformer Load Monitoring, Active Transformer Voltage Monitoring, Location Awareness and Virtual RTU/DNP3 Gateway provide real-time information and detection of distribution transformer events (specifically loading and voltage), enable ADMS management and protection of distribution transformers, minimize repair costs and enhance reliability, resiliency and predictability. Learn how utilities are monitoring their transformers in real-time and gaining valuable, actionable insights.
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Operationalizing AMI Data with Your Existing Network
Having a massive amount of data available at your fingertips through grid edge intelligence solutions is amazing, but understanding and applying it to glean insights is where the most value is obtained. But how do you transform that data into those insights? Learn how you can wade through volumes of data to inform effective planning, engineering and operations, and provides data accuracy, ensuring you make informed decisions and navigate a transforming grid with confidence. From present-day operations to future-focused planning, hear how utilities are empowered to adapt to evolving demands and a changing energy landscape using advanced analytics, seamless integration and a scalable approach.
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Exploring Itron's Cellular IoT Strategy for Water, Gas and Battery-Powered Devices
The utility segment continues to be a leading growth area for Cellular IoT solutions. However, navigating the mix of acronyms and rapidly evolving functionality related to Cellular IoT, 5G and other wireless technologies can be complex even for the most seasoned telecommunications professionals. Join this session to learn more about Itron’s cellular strategy as we explore new ways to leverage the enhanced coverage, capacity, lower power consumption and reduced costs of new cellular technologies specifically designed to support battery-powered water and gas solutions. Attendees will hear key updates to our portfolio, focusing on new use cases for gas and water, enabled by our cellular endpoints. We will also explore various use cases suited for cellular technologies including 5G, LTE-M, NB1 and more.
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Enhancing Accuracy & Efficiency through Automating Distributed Intelligence Meter Testing
Amidst the growing complexity of metering systems, the need for efficient and accurate testing is paramount—specifically for distributed intelligence applications. This session explores various approaches to testing distributed intelligence agents which demonstrates a professional methodology, quality agents that work the first time when deployed, the diversity of use cases DI can address and how the collaboration and partnership between utilities and solution providers is key to the energy transition. In addition, this session will highlight the broader implications of these advancements for the metering industry and a glimpse into potential future enhancements in automated testing methodologies.
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Introducing Gas Edge - Enabling AMI through the Latest Itron Innovations
As the gas industry faces significant challenges in aging infrastructure, decarbonization and electrification, utilities are asking what’s next? While gas safety continues to drive investment and innovation in the industry, new advances in ultrasonic metering with integrated safety and sensing capability at the edge, coupled with hybrid cellular and mesh networking are making the business case to migrate from AMR to AMI a much more feasible option today. Learn strategies to migrate by adopting a phased approach, making the transition to gas edge solutions through performance and cost-optimized offerings like Intelis gas meters, AMI Essentials, cellular ERT modules, and battery-based mesh networking.
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Panel: Optimizing Your AMI Deployment & Field Area Network - Lessons Learned
Many utilities have moved through the initial deployment phase of their AMI networks and are now reaping the benefits of mature, functioning Field Area Networks (FAN). Join this panel for tactical tips and tricks that Itron network customers with mature deployments have learned along the way. Utility presenters will share insights and anecdotes on refining maintenance practices, optimizing network performance, adjusting to changing topography due to factors like seasonal changes and new construction, optimizing GIS, OMS, and AMI data analysis, and balancing IT needs across the organization. Gain actionable strategies and best practices to unlock the full potential of your industrial IoT (IIoT) network, enhancing operational efficiency, improving maintenance practices, and driving business success across your organization.
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How Peer-to-Peer Communications Are Being Leveraged for Distribution Automation
Utilities are increasingly embracing peer-to-peer communications to enhance grid reliability and resilience. By utilizing this capability of edge devices communicating and coordinating actions in the field, recloser teaming schemes can coordinate actions autonomously, thereby swiftly isolating faults and restoring power to unaffected areas. This decentralized approach minimizes outage durations and enhances the overall reliability of the grid. Itron has also leveraged peer-to-peer communication in its next-generation smart meters which can autonomously establish connections with nearby meters, improving the accuracy of location data and how meters are connected to the broader grid, leading to more efficient outage management and improved operational decision-making for utilities. We will examine these use cases and also how peer-to-peer and distributed intelligence may be leveraged in the future.
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Itron “Essentials” Packages for Municipal & Cooperative Utilities
As a long-standing partner to municipal and cooperative utilities, we understand that while they face the same industry challenges of improving reliability, sustainability and service, the means to address these challenges vary for small- and medium-sized utilities and cities. Itron’s growing suite of “Essentials” offerings are tailored packages designed to empower utilities to adopt fully integrated multi-commodity AMI, Distribution Automation and Smart Streetlights in a faster, more affordable, and simpler way. These packages are scaled specifically to include standard bundles of hardware, hosted software, network communications and deployment services to help utilities deploy more efficiently, avoiding a multi-year, large-scale procurement and implementation process. Presenters will share an overview of AMI Essentials, IEE Essentials, DA Essentials, and Streetlight Essentials as well as use cases designed to help you reduce operational costs, improve customer and member service, gain greater visibility into grid operations, improve sustainability, and enhance reliability.
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Hydro One Grid Edge Innovation Program & DI App Lab Innovation Center
Hydro One is proactively preparing for the energy transition by adopting grid edge solutions, with a focus on distributed intelligence. Hear about results and lessons learned from their testing and how they used a phased approach with multiple environments to validate business value and to inform their technical and business designs for large-scale deployment of DI applications. Learn about key findings on this experience based on their small-scale “distribution model” in a metering lab used to test DI apps and their real-world lab environment of 500 customers (the opt-in “myEnergy Connect” program) which includes a second in series meter at each premise that is utilized for innovation. In addition, attendees will hear about results related to the customer experience.
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Leveraging eSIM Technology to Improve SCADA Resiliency
Utility SCADA solutions are critical to keeping the grid operating at its maximum availability, but these systems rely on communications systems that connect the head end to sensors, reclosures and other distribution elements to enable a reconfiguration of the distribution grid. Many utilities rely on cellular communications (public and private) to enable the required connectivity. The challenge is that cellular networks were never designed to maximize availability but rather only considered resiliency as secondary to mobility. One way to address the low availability (~99.9%) of cellular is to leverage the emerging GSMA eSIM standards which enable access to multiple public and private networks. Join this session to hear how Eversource is exploring adding fallback connectivity to a primary cellular network, enhancing overall communications availability, as network outage events are often independent random processes. The added redundancy to the one or more fallback networks has the potential to improve network availability by and order of magnitude.
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How to Build Private LTE Communications Networks to Accelerate Grid Modernization
Utilities are under increasing pressure to act to ensure their critical infrastructure is ready to meet future grid modernization, resilience, security, and clean energy requirements. Foundational communication networks play a key role in helping utilities to meet these challenges while also mitigating technology risks, increase customer satisfaction, and improve operational metrics. Join this panel of industry experts as they explain the fundamental building blocks and stages in successfully building out private wireless broadband and multi-carrier networks. It’s clear that flexible networks will be required to support required increased data speeds, capacity and security needed to operate modern, safe, and resilient utility infrastructure. Learn more about private LTE utility use cases and how utilities, technology vendors and carriers are working together to accelerate the evolution to private wireless broadband.
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Itron’s Continued Commitment to Sustainability
Itron’s commitment to sustainability and environmental, social and governance (ESG) practices is core to how we create a more resourceful world. We have a holistic approach to sustainability, which is embedded in all areas of our business. Our solutions help our customers and end users save energy and water resources. Come see how the solutions you are already using are helping you on your journey to be more sustainable and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. You will also learn how our new solutions can further accelerate your sustainability initiatives.