Avista Selects Itron to Transform Energy Network and Enable Smart City Applications in Washington State
OpenWay Riva™ IoT solution to help local utility modernize electric and gas operations
Itron's OpenWay Riva solution is the only utility and smart cities IoT solution available that delivers both Adaptive Communications Technology and distributed intelligence to meters, grid devices and sensors at the edge of the network. The platform's computing power will enable utilities like Avista to run multiple applications in edge devices and make near real-time decisions in the field, instead of solely collecting data for billing and back office analysis. In addition to smart metering, the utility can push various applications to edge devices, including revenue assurance and theft detection; high impedance detection and other safety diagnostics; outage detection and analysis; transformer load management; demand response; and management of distributed generation at the sub-transformer level. The new solution will also enable Avista to provide more timely information to its customers so they can better manage their energy usage. Additionally, with open standards, the IoT multipurpose network can be the foundation to run smart city applications, such as smart street lighting or electric vehicle charging.
The solution's Adaptive Communications Technology combines radio frequency, powerline carrier and Wi-Fi on the same chipset to deliver high communications performance with connectivity. The technology intelligently utilizes the most reliable and fastest communication path, and most efficient data rates based on its location, network operating conditions and the type of grid application or data.
"Itron is honored to be working alongside Avista as it takes the next
step in modernizing its electric and gas network with Itron's
"Avista continually invests in modernizing our electric grid, gas
network and other systems as we plan for the utility of the future to
support technologies of tomorrow. We selected
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