Itron : to Discuss Present and Future of Smart Grid at UTC América Latina Summit
March 19, 2015 at 07:38 pm EDT
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Itron will participate in the Utility Telecom Council América Latina (UTCAL) Summit 2015, taking place from March 25 to 27 in Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil. The conference will focus on the present and future of telecommunications and energy companies, and water and other utilities. Sessions will address the regulatory, technology and industrial policy requirements needed to enable modernization and performance in today's utility environment.
During the event, Itron will participate in two panels on Thursday, March 26. Itron's Mark Aguirre, engineering sales support manager for Latin America, will participate in a panel titled, "Trends in Utility Modernization - New and Evolving Solutions." Tom Johnson, marketing manager for smart grid solutions, will participate in the panel, "Aligning Brazilian Smart Technologies with the World Standards."
Itron representatives at the conference will also discuss Itron Riva, the company's distributed intelligence platform that supports sensing technologies and dynamic applications at the device level.
Itron, Inc. provides energy, water, smart city, Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) and intelligent infrastructure services. The Company operates in three segments. The Device Solutions segment primarily includes hardware products used for measurement, control, or sensing. Its Networked Solutions segment primarily includes a combination of communicating devices, network infrastructure, and associated head-end management and application software designed and sold as a complete solution for acquiring and transporting application-specific data. Its Outcomes segment includes its value-added, enhanced software and services, artificial intelligence, and machine learning in which it enable grid edge intelligence and manage, organize, analyze, and interpret raw, anonymized data to improve decision making. It is also engaged in embedding real-time, high-resolution grid edge data into the grid planning, operations and engineering process. Its solutions include technology, software and services.
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