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Delivering on the Promise No other company offers the same breadth and depth of products and solutions as Itron. We are leading the world in solving utilities’ specific business challenges. ELECTRICITY SOLUTIONS » Smart grid and IoT solution with distributed intelligence and adaptive communications “The Kalgoorlie smart water metering trial, which uses Itron technology, has been an » Standards-based smart grid network with true interoperability outstanding success because » Smart grid analytics for demand response, distributed generation, outage detection, transformer load management, revenue assurance and theft detection over the two years of the trial we’ve » Advanced metering automation via radio, cellular and wired technologies managed to reduce the water » Smart payment for electricity supply to Kalgoorlie by over 800,000 » Electricity measurement technologies kilolitres (more than 210 million » Streamlined operations and business outcomes with managed services GAS SOLUTIONS » Smart gas IoT solution » Gas monitoring technologies to improve safety, system integrity and asset management » Gas analytics for enhanced customer service, district metering, revenue protection and cathodic protection gallons), which is a savings of around 10 percent.” Garry Peach, Service Customers Strategy and Support Manager Water Corporation » Advanced metering automation via radio or cellular communications » Smart payment for gas » Gas measurement and regulator technologies “Itron is collaborating with » Streamlined operations and business outcomes with managed services CenterPoint Energy to apply WATER SOLUTIONS technology to deliver reliable service » Smart water IoT solution to our customers and reduce our » Water efficiency solutions to manage water scarcity, droughts and non-revenue water regulations environmental footprint.” » Water analytics for enhanced customer service, revenue protection, conservation management, district metering, flow analysis, and trending and forecasting Kenny Mercado, Division SVP, » Advanced metering automation via radio or cellular communications CenterPoint Energy Grid & Market Operations » Water and heat measurement technologies » Heat cost allocation solution » Streamlined operations and business outcomes with managed services “Itron’s gas prepayment system has SMART CITIES SOLUTIONS helped the State Oil Company of » Unified, secure, multi-service network IoT and smart city solution the Azerbaijan Republic (SOCAR) » Interoperability of sensing technologies and dynamic applications at the device level » Energy and water management expertise » Smart city application and communications network management using managed services improve revenue collection, recover old debt and improve customer service.” Akbar Hajiyev, Managing Director SOCAR ITRON | A GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY COMPANY E-Commerce, Online Distribution and Management • March 2017 19