Mississippi Company’s New GridRouter™ Product Named World’s #5 Green Technology Concept for 2009 by Industry Experts

Revolutionary smart grid product joins modular nuclear power, laser-induced fusion, gravity power, recycled water and solar powered air conditioners on distinguished list

Jackson, MS — January 11, 2010

SmartSynch, Inc., a smart grid infrastructure company utilizing standard IP communications via public wireless networks, announced today that its new GridRouter™ smart grid product has been recognized as the #5 High Technology Concept in the World for 2009 by leading green technology market research and analysis firm GreenTech Media of Cambridge, Mass.

Formally launched in early December, the GridRouter™ is the first universal smart grid communications solution enabling utilities to seamlessly and easily communicate with every possible device on their automated electricity grids regardless of make, model or communication protocol.

GreenTech Media ranked the GridRouter™ fifth on the list, which was not specific to the Smart Grid space, but rather included ALL technology innovation across all green technology industries. To put this in perspective, Modular Nuclear Power and Laser-Induced Fusion were the top two concepts.
GreenTech Media had this to say about the SmartSynch GridRouter™:

The Everything Box for Smart Grid: SmartSynch came up with a way to ameliorate the standards battle in smart grid: create a router that can adapt to whatever networking protocol a utility wants to adopt. If it sounds like this is something that should have been invented a while ago, don't feel alone. It's a common reaction. Expect Cisco and others to follow.

“The GridRouter is the ‘Rosetta Stone’ of the smart grid because it allows multiple digital energy language users to quickly understand each other for the first time,” said SmartSynch CEO Stephen Johnston. “This product is the future of our industry, and we are delighted that our vision and efforts are being recognized accordingly, particularly by our utility customers, whose response to the GridRouter launch has exceeded our wildest expectations.”

Johnston said the GridRouter will transform the smart grid by opening the door to new applications and networks, utilizing greater bandwidth and increasing functionality – similar to how network routers transformed the Internet from slow, one-dimensional Web sites to a high bandwidth experience with voice and video.

“This is tremendous recognition for the professionals at SmartSynch, an organically grown Mississippi company, and it completely validates our message that it is possible to design and develop world-changing innovative technology solutions right here in Mississippi,” said Tony Jeff, President & CEO of the Mississippi Technology Alliance. “SmartSynch is an outstanding company that proves innovation and technology are the building blocks for a stronger economy.” 

For more information on the SmartSynch GridRouter™, including a virtual demonstration, visit: www.gridrouter.com.

To view the GreenTech Media article, including the list in its entirety, visit:
http://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/top-ten-high-concepts-in-2009/

About SmartSynch
SmartSynch has been the only provider of standard, IP communicating end-to-end smart grid solutions utilizing public wireless networks for the utility industry since 2000. Our clean-tech innovations in the two-way delivery of real-time energy usage data over public wireless networks, in lieu of proprietary networks, have to date simplified deployments for 100 major North American utilities, while enabling their clean-energy initiatives and delivering greater Returns on Resources.

As a smart grid infrastructure company, SmartSynch’s IP-based solutions are capable of delivering grid intelligence to and from any device. Our products and services include SmartMeters™ and SmartBoxes™ that immediately IP-enable the grid, software solutions, and network management services for utilities and their customers, as well as clean-tech companies in need of remote communications and control functionality for products ranging from solar panels to plug-in hybrid vehicles.

IP-based public wireless networks enable utilities to strategically and rapidly deploy more secure and scalable smart grid solutions with minimal capital expenditures. IP networks and solutions may be remotely upgraded to interface with new technologies, since they are built upon open standards and leverage existing programs and tools. SmartSynch’s IP-based Smart Grid communications infrastructure encourages rapid application innovation and delivery of new functionality by allowing the broadest spectrum of ecosystem participants to focus on providing maximum benefits to utilities and their customers.

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