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Texas-New Mexico Power (TNMP) Achieves 99.96% Average Daily Read Rate on 10,000 Unit Trial Deployment of SmartSynch Residential SmartMeters™ Across Texas MarketJackson, Miss. — May 4, 2010 SmartSynch, a smart grid infrastructure company utilizing standard IP communications via public wireless networks, announced that its 10,000-unit residential point-to-point SmartMeter™ trial deployment for Texas-New Mexico Power (TNMP) has achieved an unprecedented 99.96 percent average daily read rate since last fall. SmartSynch utilizes standard IP communications via public wireless networks, and the TNMP trial marked the first large-scale residential deployment of smart metering solutions that use a public wireless network as the communications backbone. Such networks allow the utility to bring efficient, secure smart grid technology to homes across multiple geographies – from dense, urban cities to remote, rural communities – all at lower cost and with greater flexibility to incorporate new technology in the future. “Service, reliability, speed and ease of deployment, and performance all achieved and even surpassed our expectations during this trial,” said Neal Walker, vice president, Operations for TNMP. “During the last ten months, we consistently achieved a near-perfect, uninterrupted read rate regardless of where the smart meter units were deployed. Additionally, SmartSynch’s use of public wireless networks offers the bandwidth to let us use the best security technology on the market.” TNMP’s pilot deployment supports the collection of billing reads, remote service turn-on and turn-off capabilities and real-time notification of outages and other events. The SmartSynch solution was used to perform the first remote move-in and move-out service requests in the state of Texas. This trial also enabled TNMP to monitor and identify trends on customer usage data in 15-minute intervals and to help TNMP provide faster and safer response to customer service requests and power outages. “The success of this deployment completely validates using public wireless networks for residential smart metering,” said Stephen Johnston, SmartSynch’s chief executive officer. “Now that this technology is cost competitive, it’s hard to envision a utility choosing a more complex, costly and proprietary alternative. The advantages of using public wireless smart metering technology are becoming indisputable.” About SmartSynch 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. For more information, visit www.smartsynch.com and follow SmartSynch on Twitter at www.twitter.com/smartsynch. About TNMP
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