Symphony Teleca, Itron develop smart metering application for Microsoft CityNext Initiative

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Symphony Teleca Corporation (STC) has collaborated with Itron to develop intuitive, touch-enabled smart metering application that provides an intelligent view of a city’s resource consumption to municipal governments.

Together, the companies have designed and developed this Windows 8 and Windows RT mobile and desktop application prototype that can be used across devices from Windows Surface tablets to mobile phones and desktops.

Being a key player in the smart metering space, Itron tapped into STC’s domain expertise in energy as well as its design capabilities to conceptualize and build the prototype, with the goal of addressing the growing need for energy efficient infrastructure in municipalities.

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Itron Insights provides users with dynamic charts, graphs and maps that reveal an integrated view of the city’s electricity, gas and water consumption and related CO2 footprint alongside associated cost.

Further Itron’s solution also offers drill-down capabilities for further analysis, embedded alerts and budget management tools, enabling cities to discover the best way to efficiently allocate resources.

“There is a rapidly growing market today for smart technologies that can help cities that are struggling with budgetary restrictions become more efficient,” said Russ Vanos, senior vice president of Strategy and Business Development at Itron.

“Our approach to innovation is ideal for fast growing, complex markets like smart energy because we consider the business, design and engineering needs from the onset of the relationship, allowing our clients to accelerate their vision into commercial reality,” said Pradeep U.N., vice president and global head of Design and Innovation, Symphony Teleca.

With Itron Insights, Symphony Teleca brings energy usage, costs, location and timeframe together. This easy access helps city administrators intuitively explore a situation, making decisions based on trends and benchmarks with a single swipe of the finger: that is the power of natural user interface (NUI) in the enterprise.

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