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Addressing Safety Concerns with Distributed Intelligence
View DetailsDiscovering and mitigating potential safety concerns on your low-voltage distribution network is paramount. Having visibility into issues associated with outages and fires, energy theft and hot sockets can prevent catastrophic situations. Through the Safety Bundle, distributed intelligence applications such as High Impedance Detection, Meter Bypass Detection and Advanced Temperature Monitoring detect and locate poor electrical connections, discover meter tampering and energy diversion, and use high-resolution temperature readings to detect meter socket problems, respectively—all before they create a safety hazard or interrupt service. Learn how utilities are decreasing customer outage minutes, minimizing repair costs and field visits, ensuring customer safety and satisfaction, and positively impacting overall business processes with distributed intelligence applications.
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Advanced Metering Meets Legacy Systems: Using WPG-1 for KYZ Pulses on the Gen5 Riva
View DetailsWhen integrated with Itron's Gen5 Riva meter, the WPG-1 facilitates accurate pulse generation, enabling seamless interfacing with legacy metering systems that rely on KYZ outputs. This presentation explores the methodology for configuring the WPG-1 to work with the Gen5 Riva meter, ensuring proper provisioning and programming for specific applications. Key considerations include data interpretation, pulse output configuration, and wiring configurations to achieve reliable performance. The implementation of the WPG-1 with the Gen5 Riva meter extends the meter’s capabilities, allowing utilities and industrial users to maintain compatibility with existing infrastructure while leveraging advanced metering technology.
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All in on Intelis
View DetailsConverting from age old residential diaphragm meters to solid state ultrasonic meters requires change within the utility. Change can sometimes be difficult and met with resistance. Learn from 3 utilities who leveraged the benefits of Intelis to assure successful implementation company wide.
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Benefits of Gas and Water Meter Accuracy
View DetailsLost and unaccounted for gas and water is a major issue for utilities, consumers, and the environment. This session will review the pitfalls of low accuracy meters and go in-depth on how to gain revenue and make the business case for new meters. Benefits of Meter Accuracy will also cover the holistic improvements ultrasonic metering offers, including environmental advantages, regulatory factors, and financial gains.
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Big Picture Session: From Regulator to Regulated – Perspectives from Former Utility Commissioners
View DetailsJoin us for an insightful panel discussion featuring former state utility commissioners who have transitioned to executive roles within regulated utilities. The distinguished panelists will offer unique perspectives from both sides of the regulatory fence – as regulators and now the regulated. They will discuss how they approach garnering regulatory support for new initiatives and how to work together with local regulators to move faster to address pressing challenges, such as increased demand and grid complexity, while prioritizing resilience, safety and affordability.
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CCFN Update Product Update
View DetailsJoin the Itron product management team as we discuss the latest updates around our ChoiceConnect Fixed Network solution including new releases, product lifecycle updates and options to begin incorporating Itron’s latest generation AMI technologies into your current solution.
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Choice Connect Users: Gain Valuable Insights on Bridging Strategies - How to Transition to 500G/500W or Intelis Meters to Cellular
View DetailsJoin this panel as they explore the strategies and challenges faced as they advance their networks with newer technologies. This session will delve into the approaches utilities are adopting for deploying 500G/500W/Intelis to cellular migrations. Discover the successful frameworks developed to manage changes in workflow, data management, and customer service, and learn how these utilities achieved success.
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Considerations for Building Private LTE Communications Networks to Accelerate Grid Modernization
View DetailsModernizing the electric grid demands a communications foundation that is secure, scalable, and future-ready. Private LTE networks are emerging as a key enabler of this transformation, giving utilities with greater control, resilience, and flexibility than traditional public networks.
This session will explore the critical factors utilities must address when planning, designing, and deploying Private LTE networks - including spectrum acquisition, network architecture design, cybersecurity requirements, device ecosystem readiness, and integration with existing operational systems. Panelists will share real-world deployments, highlighting both technical and organizational challenges.
Attendees will gain practical guidance on leveraging Private LTE to reduce operational costs, enhance grid reliability, and accelerate the shift toward a more decentralized, decarbonized, and digitized energy system.
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Data You Can Bill On: TNB’s Strategy for Load Profile Quality in Interval Billing
View DetailsAccurate load profile data is essential to the success of interval billing—especially when estimated bills need to align with actual data. In this session, Tenaga Nasional Berhad (TNB) shares how it ensures data quality and billing accuracy using Itron Enterprise Edition (IEE) tools within its MDMS.
Learn how TNB applies:
*VEE processes to validate and correct data before billing
*Threshold-based quality settings to define acceptable levels of estimated data
*Estimation indicators to flag data and enable seamless reconciliation
Get practical insights into TNB’s approach to maintaining billing continuity, reducing disputes, and building customer trust—plus lessons learned from implementing and scaling these solutions.
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Enabling Advanced Outage Awareness
View DetailsWildfire threats, intense storms, changing load profiles, an aging population and the increased reliance on electricity due to EVs, AI and natural gas moratoriums are key business drivers to ensure that outages are minimized and quickly mitigated. By combining grid edge intelligence use cases such as high-performance ping, location awareness, advanced transformer load monitoring, outage identification analysis and services, advanced outage awareness can be realized. Learn how utilities are enhancing their outage management programs through best practices that are ultimately leading to key benefits including SAIDI/CAIDI reduction, accurate customer notifications, reduced patrol time and staging points for storm preparations, faster outage identification/restoration, predictable O&M requirements and higher customer satisfaction.
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Ensuring Gas Safety in Your Operations
View DetailsGas safety is a top priority for both you and your customers. As a responsible utility, it's crucial to manage and mitigate risks in your service area, such as gas leaks, explosions, wildfires, backhoe incursions, and pressure events. In this session, we will introduce you to the gas safety revolution and the latest advancements in metering and solutions. Learn how utilities are using solid-state gas meters and smart devices that integrate ultrasonic metrology and enhanced safety features to monitor, control, and transform their gas distribution networks through various use cases such as rapid identification of gas leaks, pressure management or proactively responding to severe weather events. Understand how the Gas Distribution Safety application converges these use cases into a single solution and visually renders alarms and events, allowing for quick and efficient response times. Hear how utilities are addressing their most pressing concerns with increased visibility into gas distribution system safety events by taking proactive measures to prevent incidents and ensure the safety of their customers and employees.
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FCS/Itron Mobile Product Update
View DetailsThis is session includes an overview of what is new in the Field Collection System (FCS) and Itron Mobile for FCS. This session will benefit all attendees who currently use FCS or are interested in learning more about Itron Mobile for FCS.
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Field Tools and FDM Product Update
View DetailsFDM Tools and Field Tools are used to setup, program, and validate the installation of Itron gas and water ERTs and electricity meters. This session will cover key features, recent enhancements, new endpoint and meter support, and upcoming development. Join us to learn how FDM and Field Tools support Itron’s newest solutions.
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From Release to Field: Best Practices for Deploying New Meter Firmware
View DetailsSmart Grid technology offers the ability to enhance the benefits and features of your meter population by upgrading the register and communications firmware. This session will guide you with best practices that are currently being used when approving new meter firmware and how these practices ultimately lead to a successful upgrade.
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Gas Edge Solutions Roadmap
View DetailsGet a glimpse of the future as we discuss Itron’s Gas Edge Solution roadmap. Our portfolio includes an end-to-end platform of gas edge devices, intelligent connectivity, Itron's Edge OS, and advanced software applications. Together, these elements revolutionize safety, streamline operations, and enhance customer experience. Gain key insights of our product development, the problems they solve and see how our solutions fit into your growth strategy.
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Harnessing Networked Distribution Automation for Enhanced Reliability, Efficiency, Growth and Safety
View DetailsEnsuring the resilience and reliability of electric distribution networks is a top priority for utilities, especially as they navigate new sources of electrification, rising consumer demands, and escalating natural disasters. In this session, we’ll delve into the latest trends in distribution automation technology, shedding light on optimizing connectivity through hybrid mesh and cellular networks, and using solutions like IoT-connected line sensors to quickly identify and restore outages. Hear real-world experiences, lessons learned, and innovative approaches to enhancing the resiliency and reliability of distribution networks to improve CAIDI and SAIFI numbers, enhance safety, and push more intelligence, real-time decision making and analysis to the edge of the grid.
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Innovation at the Utility: Engineering Solutions for a Resilient and Reliable AMI Network
View DetailsComEd will highlight innovative engineering solutions incorporating Itron technology and utility know-how. The SMART (Solar Mobile AMI Reliability Trailer) is a nomadic communications center powered by renewable energy that is easily deployable throughout the service territory and is capable of both facilitating and monitoring the AMI network. This greatly increases ComEd's ability to access and understand the impact of both existing and/or new devices on to the AMI mesh network, ultimately resulting in a more reliable and resilient grid. Aside from the SMART trailer, ComEd is also re-engineering streetlight nodes so that they can service multiple purposes for radio frequency (RF) remediation, specifically as they relate to strengthening the mesh, and offer an economical solution for areas with RF shadows. This presentation will be co-presented by two engineers from ComEd and will emphasize the role of the utility to continuously innovate in order to maintain a resilient, reliable, and industry leading AMI mesh network, which serves as the foundation for smart electric meters, smart gas and water meters, and more, all of which are necessary for the modern smart city.
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Innovative Approaches to Grid Resiliency: Leveraging Hyper-Local Weather Data and Network Lighting Controllers
View DetailsThis session offers an anecdotal look at MPC's ongoing efforts to enhance resiliency, maintenance, and recovery across its electric grid. It will highlight how MPC is leveraging all smart sensors to monitor and document the impact of severe climate events on electric distribution and transmission systems—enabling improved planning and response. Additionally, the session will cover MPC’s pilot deployment of weather stations at key grid locations to capture hyper-local weather data that is otherwise cost-prohibitive or unavailable through commercial sources. The pilot aims to explore how this granular data can support maintenance strategies, improve worker safety, and strengthen overall grid resiliency.
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Big Picture Session: From Regulator to Regulated – Perspectives from Former Utility Commissioners
View DetailsJoin us for an insightful panel discussion featuring former state utility commissioners who have transitioned to executive roles within regulated utilities. The distinguished panelists will offer unique perspectives from both sides of the regulatory fence – as regulators and now the regulated. They will discuss how they approach garnering regulatory support for new initiatives and how to work together with local regulators to move faster to address pressing challenges, such as increased demand and grid complexity, while prioritizing resilience, safety and affordability.
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Addressing Safety Concerns with Distributed Intelligence
View DetailsDiscovering and mitigating potential safety concerns on your low-voltage distribution network is paramount. Having visibility into issues associated with outages and fires, energy theft and hot sockets can prevent catastrophic situations. Through the Safety Bundle, distributed intelligence applications such as High Impedance Detection, Meter Bypass Detection and Advanced Temperature Monitoring detect and locate poor electrical connections, discover meter tampering and energy diversion, and use high-resolution temperature readings to detect meter socket problems, respectively—all before they create a safety hazard or interrupt service. Learn how utilities are decreasing customer outage minutes, minimizing repair costs and field visits, ensuring customer safety and satisfaction, and positively impacting overall business processes with distributed intelligence applications.
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Data You Can Bill On: TNB’s Strategy for Load Profile Quality in Interval Billing
View DetailsAccurate load profile data is essential to the success of interval billing—especially when estimated bills need to align with actual data. In this session, Tenaga Nasional Berhad (TNB) shares how it ensures data quality and billing accuracy using Itron Enterprise Edition (IEE) tools within its MDMS.
Learn how TNB applies:
*VEE processes to validate and correct data before billing
*Threshold-based quality settings to define acceptable levels of estimated data
*Estimation indicators to flag data and enable seamless reconciliation
Get practical insights into TNB’s approach to maintaining billing continuity, reducing disputes, and building customer trust—plus lessons learned from implementing and scaling these solutions.
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Enabling Advanced Outage Awareness
View DetailsWildfire threats, intense storms, changing load profiles, an aging population and the increased reliance on electricity due to EVs, AI and natural gas moratoriums are key business drivers to ensure that outages are minimized and quickly mitigated. By combining grid edge intelligence use cases such as high-performance ping, location awareness, advanced transformer load monitoring, outage identification analysis and services, advanced outage awareness can be realized. Learn how utilities are enhancing their outage management programs through best practices that are ultimately leading to key benefits including SAIDI/CAIDI reduction, accurate customer notifications, reduced patrol time and staging points for storm preparations, faster outage identification/restoration, predictable O&M requirements and higher customer satisfaction.
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Ensuring Gas Safety in Your Operations
View DetailsGas safety is a top priority for both you and your customers. As a responsible utility, it's crucial to manage and mitigate risks in your service area, such as gas leaks, explosions, wildfires, backhoe incursions, and pressure events. In this session, we will introduce you to the gas safety revolution and the latest advancements in metering and solutions. Learn how utilities are using solid-state gas meters and smart devices that integrate ultrasonic metrology and enhanced safety features to monitor, control, and transform their gas distribution networks through various use cases such as rapid identification of gas leaks, pressure management or proactively responding to severe weather events. Understand how the Gas Distribution Safety application converges these use cases into a single solution and visually renders alarms and events, allowing for quick and efficient response times. Hear how utilities are addressing their most pressing concerns with increased visibility into gas distribution system safety events by taking proactive measures to prevent incidents and ensure the safety of their customers and employees.
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Gas Edge Solutions Roadmap
View DetailsGet a glimpse of the future as we discuss Itron’s Gas Edge Solution roadmap. Our portfolio includes an end-to-end platform of gas edge devices, intelligent connectivity, Itron's Edge OS, and advanced software applications. Together, these elements revolutionize safety, streamline operations, and enhance customer experience. Gain key insights of our product development, the problems they solve and see how our solutions fit into your growth strategy.
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Integrating Grid Edge Intelligence & ADMS to Modernize & Simplify Grid Management
View DetailsUtilities are now integrating high-bandwidth grid edge intelligence (from the substation to behind-the-meter) with Advanced Distribution Management Systems (ADMS) (from the transmission grid to the substation). This integration means that utilities have visibility into and control of distributed energy resource management systems (DERMS), virtual power plants (VPPs) and other applications. This session will provide the following takeaways:
•Hear about the key challenges that utilities face today due to lack of visibility
•Learn how ADMS plus grid edge intelligence enables grid operators to gain greater situational awareness and real-time insights with key measurements and notifications
•Understand how this integration delivers value to customers across multiple business units, including infrastructure investment, grid planning, operations and asset management
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Optimizing Interval Billing: TNB's Path to Flexible Tariffs and Smarter Operations
View DetailsFollowing its successful rollout of Interval Billing in June 2024, Tenaga Nasional Berhad (TNB) has transformed its metering and billing processes to better support complex tariff structures and reduce operational constraints.
In this session, TNB will share how it leveraged key MDMS functionalities to overcome limitations of traditional register billing—automating energy summation across feeder meters, correcting LILO-related inaccuracies, and centralizing public holiday management for TOU customers.
Gain practical insights into TNB’s implementation journey, including lessons learned and the value delivered—offering a roadmap for utilities looking to enhance billing flexibility and efficiency.
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Recover Lost Revenue, Restore Outages & Realize Operational Efficiencies with Operations Optimizer
View DetailsIn order to improve operational efficiency, enhance network awareness and create infrastructure for future solutions, many utilities are taking advantage of existing grid edge data and utilizing analytic solutions to generate actionable intelligence, drive innovation and unlock new business value. Using Operations Optimizer (OO), you can manage the large volume of data coming from your AMI system, increase both back office and field efficiencies, zero in on anomalous conditions, automate tasks, streamline processes, and proactively act on issues that will affect the ability to deliver value back to you and your customers. Utilities will discuss how they are using real-time information to generate work orders, and analyze and determine the best path to customer restoration and cost savings. In addition, learn how utilities are utilizing a secure, flexible platform and services to enhance value by detecting, investigating and resolving lost revenue, managing AMI operations to monitor faulty metering conditions, predicting pending equipment failures, and taking a proactive approach to meter and device maintenance and performance.
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Temetra Insights Exchange Pt 1
View DetailsJoin fellow Temetra users for an interactive forum focused on real-world use cases, upcoming features, and open discussion. Share how your utility is using Temetra, hear what others are doing, and help shape the platform’s roadmap. A great opportunity to learn, connect, and influence what’s next.
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Temetra Insights Exchange Pt 2 : Connect, Share, Shape the Future
View DetailsJoin fellow Temetra users for an interactive forum focused on real-world use cases, upcoming features, and open discussion. Share how your utility is using Temetra, hear what others are doing, and help shape the platform’s roadmap. A great opportunity to learn, connect, and influence what’s next.
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Unlocking Distributed Intelligence Benefits During Deployment—Balancing Innovation and Risk
View DetailsAs utilities look to deploy AMI, integrating distributed intelligence (DI) in parallel presents a unique opportunity to unlock transformative benefits. However, this concurrent approach comes with challenges, including balancing operational priorities, managing data complexities and mitigating deployment risks. In this session, we will share our experience navigating the integration of DI during our AMI deployment. We’ll discuss the strategies employed, ensuring interoperability while minimizing disruptions to field operations. Additionally, this session will cover the significant benefits realized and the unlocked value from the modern AMI solution.
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Wildfire Prevention for Safer Grid Management
View DetailsAccurate wildfire prevention, detection and immediate response within the utility landscape is crucial due to a critical challenge in reducing the ignition gap and minimizing the risk of wildfires. By integrating with existing monitoring and response systems, a solution exists that not only alerts relevant personnel in real-time but also facilitates seamless coordination and response, minimizes false alarms through comprehensive validation methods, directs resources towards real threats and optimizes response efficiency. Understand tips, tricks, best practices and lessons learned from utilities based in areas prone to wildfire risk and how distributed intelligence and sensing technologies are being used to mitigate these issues. Learn how utilities are focusing on real-time monitoring, advanced AI technology, and seamless integration to take proactive measures in preventing ignition events, safeguarding infrastructure and protecting customers.
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Data You Can Bill On: TNB’s Strategy for Load Profile Quality in Interval Billing
View DetailsAccurate load profile data is essential to the success of interval billing—especially when estimated bills need to align with actual data. In this session, Tenaga Nasional Berhad (TNB) shares how it ensures data quality and billing accuracy using Itron Enterprise Edition (IEE) tools within its MDMS.
Learn how TNB applies:
*VEE processes to validate and correct data before billing
*Threshold-based quality settings to define acceptable levels of estimated data
*Estimation indicators to flag data and enable seamless reconciliation
Get practical insights into TNB’s approach to maintaining billing continuity, reducing disputes, and building customer trust—plus lessons learned from implementing and scaling these solutions.
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Ensuring Gas Safety in Your Operations
View DetailsGas safety is a top priority for both you and your customers. As a responsible utility, it's crucial to manage and mitigate risks in your service area, such as gas leaks, explosions, wildfires, backhoe incursions, and pressure events. In this session, we will introduce you to the gas safety revolution and the latest advancements in metering and solutions. Learn how utilities are using solid-state gas meters and smart devices that integrate ultrasonic metrology and enhanced safety features to monitor, control, and transform their gas distribution networks through various use cases such as rapid identification of gas leaks, pressure management or proactively responding to severe weather events. Understand how the Gas Distribution Safety application converges these use cases into a single solution and visually renders alarms and events, allowing for quick and efficient response times. Hear how utilities are addressing their most pressing concerns with increased visibility into gas distribution system safety events by taking proactive measures to prevent incidents and ensure the safety of their customers and employees.
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Optimizing Interval Billing: TNB's Path to Flexible Tariffs and Smarter Operations
View DetailsFollowing its successful rollout of Interval Billing in June 2024, Tenaga Nasional Berhad (TNB) has transformed its metering and billing processes to better support complex tariff structures and reduce operational constraints.
In this session, TNB will share how it leveraged key MDMS functionalities to overcome limitations of traditional register billing—automating energy summation across feeder meters, correcting LILO-related inaccuracies, and centralizing public holiday management for TOU customers.
Gain practical insights into TNB’s implementation journey, including lessons learned and the value delivered—offering a roadmap for utilities looking to enhance billing flexibility and efficiency.
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Planning your migration from FCS/MVRS to Temetra
View DetailsTemetra is Itron's latest mobile data collection solution. Temetra is cloud-based and in addition to this new architecture, it brings a variety of new features not available in earlier generation systems. In this session Itron will review the key topics to consider when migrating from FCS to Temetra to help you prepare for your future migration.
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Temetra Customer Experience
View DetailsHundreds of utilities in North America are now using Temetra, Itron's latest generation mobile data collection solution and data repository. In this session, a utility who recently moved to Temetra will talk about their experience, the lessons learned, and the benefits they are experiencing with this powerful, cloud-based solution.
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Temetra Insights Exchange Pt 1
View DetailsJoin fellow Temetra users for an interactive forum focused on real-world use cases, upcoming features, and open discussion. Share how your utility is using Temetra, hear what others are doing, and help shape the platform’s roadmap. A great opportunity to learn, connect, and influence what’s next.
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Temetra Insights Exchange Pt 2 : Connect, Share, Shape the Future
View DetailsJoin fellow Temetra users for an interactive forum focused on real-world use cases, upcoming features, and open discussion. Share how your utility is using Temetra, hear what others are doing, and help shape the platform’s roadmap. A great opportunity to learn, connect, and influence what’s next.
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Temetra Mobile Hands-On Demo
View DetailsSmartphones and tablets have revolutionized mobile computing. Itron is doing the same for mobile meter data collection. Attendees to this session will have the opportunity to test drive Temetra Mobile, our latest product for mobile utility employees. You will load the app and meters on your smartphone and experience how this solution can optimize and enhance field operations at your company.
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Temetra Product Update
View DetailsTemetra is Itron's latest cloud-based mobile meter data collection solution. Join us to see how Temetra allows electric, gas, and water utilities efficiently dispatch routes and collect reads, while also delivering powerful new functionality in the form of long-term data storage, advanced search features, and analytics capabilities.
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Advanced Metering Meets Legacy Systems: Using WPG-1 for KYZ Pulses on the Gen5 Riva
View DetailsWhen integrated with Itron's Gen5 Riva meter, the WPG-1 facilitates accurate pulse generation, enabling seamless interfacing with legacy metering systems that rely on KYZ outputs. This presentation explores the methodology for configuring the WPG-1 to work with the Gen5 Riva meter, ensuring proper provisioning and programming for specific applications. Key considerations include data interpretation, pulse output configuration, and wiring configurations to achieve reliable performance. The implementation of the WPG-1 with the Gen5 Riva meter extends the meter’s capabilities, allowing utilities and industrial users to maintain compatibility with existing infrastructure while leveraging advanced metering technology.
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All in on Intelis
View DetailsConverting from age old residential diaphragm meters to solid state ultrasonic meters requires change within the utility. Change can sometimes be difficult and met with resistance. Learn from 3 utilities who leveraged the benefits of Intelis to assure successful implementation company wide.
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Benefits of Gas and Water Meter Accuracy
View DetailsLost and unaccounted for gas and water is a major issue for utilities, consumers, and the environment. This session will review the pitfalls of low accuracy meters and go in-depth on how to gain revenue and make the business case for new meters. Benefits of Meter Accuracy will also cover the holistic improvements ultrasonic metering offers, including environmental advantages, regulatory factors, and financial gains.
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CCFN Update Product Update
View DetailsJoin the Itron product management team as we discuss the latest updates around our ChoiceConnect Fixed Network solution including new releases, product lifecycle updates and options to begin incorporating Itron’s latest generation AMI technologies into your current solution.
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Ensuring Gas Safety in Your Operations
View DetailsGas safety is a top priority for both you and your customers. As a responsible utility, it's crucial to manage and mitigate risks in your service area, such as gas leaks, explosions, wildfires, backhoe incursions, and pressure events. In this session, we will introduce you to the gas safety revolution and the latest advancements in metering and solutions. Learn how utilities are using solid-state gas meters and smart devices that integrate ultrasonic metrology and enhanced safety features to monitor, control, and transform their gas distribution networks through various use cases such as rapid identification of gas leaks, pressure management or proactively responding to severe weather events. Understand how the Gas Distribution Safety application converges these use cases into a single solution and visually renders alarms and events, allowing for quick and efficient response times. Hear how utilities are addressing their most pressing concerns with increased visibility into gas distribution system safety events by taking proactive measures to prevent incidents and ensure the safety of their customers and employees.
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FCS/Itron Mobile Product Update
View DetailsThis is session includes an overview of what is new in the Field Collection System (FCS) and Itron Mobile for FCS. This session will benefit all attendees who currently use FCS or are interested in learning more about Itron Mobile for FCS.
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Field Tools and FDM Product Update
View DetailsFDM Tools and Field Tools are used to setup, program, and validate the installation of Itron gas and water ERTs and electricity meters. This session will cover key features, recent enhancements, new endpoint and meter support, and upcoming development. Join us to learn how FDM and Field Tools support Itron’s newest solutions.
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From Release to Field: Best Practices for Deploying New Meter Firmware
View DetailsSmart Grid technology offers the ability to enhance the benefits and features of your meter population by upgrading the register and communications firmware. This session will guide you with best practices that are currently being used when approving new meter firmware and how these practices ultimately lead to a successful upgrade.
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Mobile Hardware Update
View DetailsWith more than 40 years of experience building leading meter-reading and field-deployment solutions, Itron understands the challenges facing your meter-reading and maintenance workforce. This session will present the newest offering of mobile radios and handheld devices supported by Itron. You will also hear an update on Mobile Collector family of drive-by radios, along with the many hardware computing choices available for your meter data collection and meter deployment.
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Planning your migration from FCS/MVRS to Temetra
View DetailsTemetra is Itron's latest mobile data collection solution. Temetra is cloud-based and in addition to this new architecture, it brings a variety of new features not available in earlier generation systems. In this session Itron will review the key topics to consider when migrating from FCS to Temetra to help you prepare for your future migration.
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Smart Meter Opt-Out Discussion
View Details“Opt Out” of smart metering is an issue across the nation that many utilities and regulators are having to deal with today. This session focuses on how utilities have tackled this very issue and created programs for opting out along with all the infrastructure needed to support this program.
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Temetra Customer Experience
View DetailsHundreds of utilities in North America are now using Temetra, Itron's latest generation mobile data collection solution and data repository. In this session, a utility who recently moved to Temetra will talk about their experience, the lessons learned, and the benefits they are experiencing with this powerful, cloud-based solution.
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Temetra Insights Exchange Pt 1
View DetailsJoin fellow Temetra users for an interactive forum focused on real-world use cases, upcoming features, and open discussion. Share how your utility is using Temetra, hear what others are doing, and help shape the platform’s roadmap. A great opportunity to learn, connect, and influence what’s next.
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Temetra Insights Exchange Pt 2 : Connect, Share, Shape the Future
View DetailsJoin fellow Temetra users for an interactive forum focused on real-world use cases, upcoming features, and open discussion. Share how your utility is using Temetra, hear what others are doing, and help shape the platform’s roadmap. A great opportunity to learn, connect, and influence what’s next.
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Temetra Mobile Hands-On Demo
View DetailsSmartphones and tablets have revolutionized mobile computing. Itron is doing the same for mobile meter data collection. Attendees to this session will have the opportunity to test drive Temetra Mobile, our latest product for mobile utility employees. You will load the app and meters on your smartphone and experience how this solution can optimize and enhance field operations at your company.
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Temetra Product Update
View DetailsTemetra is Itron's latest cloud-based mobile meter data collection solution. Join us to see how Temetra allows electric, gas, and water utilities efficiently dispatch routes and collect reads, while also delivering powerful new functionality in the form of long-term data storage, advanced search features, and analytics capabilities.
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CCFN Update Product Update
View DetailsJoin the Itron product management team as we discuss the latest updates around our ChoiceConnect Fixed Network solution including new releases, product lifecycle updates and options to begin incorporating Itron’s latest generation AMI technologies into your current solution.
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Choice Connect Users: Gain Valuable Insights on Bridging Strategies - How to Transition to 500G/500W or Intelis Meters to Cellular
View DetailsJoin this panel as they explore the strategies and challenges faced as they advance their networks with newer technologies. This session will delve into the approaches utilities are adopting for deploying 500G/500W/Intelis to cellular migrations. Discover the successful frameworks developed to manage changes in workflow, data management, and customer service, and learn how these utilities achieved success.
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Considerations for Building Private LTE Communications Networks to Accelerate Grid Modernization
View DetailsModernizing the electric grid demands a communications foundation that is secure, scalable, and future-ready. Private LTE networks are emerging as a key enabler of this transformation, giving utilities with greater control, resilience, and flexibility than traditional public networks.
This session will explore the critical factors utilities must address when planning, designing, and deploying Private LTE networks - including spectrum acquisition, network architecture design, cybersecurity requirements, device ecosystem readiness, and integration with existing operational systems. Panelists will share real-world deployments, highlighting both technical and organizational challenges.
Attendees will gain practical guidance on leveraging Private LTE to reduce operational costs, enhance grid reliability, and accelerate the shift toward a more decentralized, decarbonized, and digitized energy system.
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Enabling Advanced Outage Awareness
View DetailsWildfire threats, intense storms, changing load profiles, an aging population and the increased reliance on electricity due to EVs, AI and natural gas moratoriums are key business drivers to ensure that outages are minimized and quickly mitigated. By combining grid edge intelligence use cases such as high-performance ping, location awareness, advanced transformer load monitoring, outage identification analysis and services, advanced outage awareness can be realized. Learn how utilities are enhancing their outage management programs through best practices that are ultimately leading to key benefits including SAIDI/CAIDI reduction, accurate customer notifications, reduced patrol time and staging points for storm preparations, faster outage identification/restoration, predictable O&M requirements and higher customer satisfaction.
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Ensuring Gas Safety in Your Operations
View DetailsGas safety is a top priority for both you and your customers. As a responsible utility, it's crucial to manage and mitigate risks in your service area, such as gas leaks, explosions, wildfires, backhoe incursions, and pressure events. In this session, we will introduce you to the gas safety revolution and the latest advancements in metering and solutions. Learn how utilities are using solid-state gas meters and smart devices that integrate ultrasonic metrology and enhanced safety features to monitor, control, and transform their gas distribution networks through various use cases such as rapid identification of gas leaks, pressure management or proactively responding to severe weather events. Understand how the Gas Distribution Safety application converges these use cases into a single solution and visually renders alarms and events, allowing for quick and efficient response times. Hear how utilities are addressing their most pressing concerns with increased visibility into gas distribution system safety events by taking proactive measures to prevent incidents and ensure the safety of their customers and employees.
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Gas Edge Solutions Roadmap
View DetailsGet a glimpse of the future as we discuss Itron’s Gas Edge Solution roadmap. Our portfolio includes an end-to-end platform of gas edge devices, intelligent connectivity, Itron's Edge OS, and advanced software applications. Together, these elements revolutionize safety, streamline operations, and enhance customer experience. Gain key insights of our product development, the problems they solve and see how our solutions fit into your growth strategy.
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Harnessing Networked Distribution Automation for Enhanced Reliability, Efficiency, Growth and Safety
View DetailsEnsuring the resilience and reliability of electric distribution networks is a top priority for utilities, especially as they navigate new sources of electrification, rising consumer demands, and escalating natural disasters. In this session, we’ll delve into the latest trends in distribution automation technology, shedding light on optimizing connectivity through hybrid mesh and cellular networks, and using solutions like IoT-connected line sensors to quickly identify and restore outages. Hear real-world experiences, lessons learned, and innovative approaches to enhancing the resiliency and reliability of distribution networks to improve CAIDI and SAIFI numbers, enhance safety, and push more intelligence, real-time decision making and analysis to the edge of the grid.
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Innovative Approaches to Grid Resiliency: Leveraging Hyper-Local Weather Data and Network Lighting Controllers
View DetailsThis session offers an anecdotal look at MPC's ongoing efforts to enhance resiliency, maintenance, and recovery across its electric grid. It will highlight how MPC is leveraging all smart sensors to monitor and document the impact of severe climate events on electric distribution and transmission systems—enabling improved planning and response. Additionally, the session will cover MPC’s pilot deployment of weather stations at key grid locations to capture hyper-local weather data that is otherwise cost-prohibitive or unavailable through commercial sources. The pilot aims to explore how this granular data can support maintenance strategies, improve worker safety, and strengthen overall grid resiliency.
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Laying the Foundation for GEI: Qualification and Deployment of the Riva Meter
View DetailsThe Itron Riva meter is a foundational component of the Grid Edge Intelligence solution enabling both Distributed Intelligence as well as maintaining existing business processes to support key AMI1.0/Meter-to-cash applications. In this session, you will hear from a utility who has gone through the process of qualifying, approving, and deploying this new class of device. Gainsville Regional Utility will share their lessons learned and challenged encountered as well as provide insight into their deployment strategy. The Itron team will also share views of the most common hurdles that utilities experience during this process and key recommendations and strategies to overcome these barriers.
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Panel Discussion: Developing a Business Case for Ultrasonic Metering and Advanced Metering Infrastructure
View DetailsDon’t miss this opportunity, join a panel of your peers as they discuss the impacts of ultrasonic metering and the advantages of AMI. The expansion to two-way communications enables features that are not available with AMR. What are the key drivers needed to develop your utility’s business case? Would operational benefits such as remote disconnects, on-demand reads, soft shutoffs offer valuable operational flexibility? Do safety features including safety alarms or real time pressure or temperature readings move the needle? Or would billing flexibility to enhance customer service or develop better energy efficiency or improve emission reductions create a compelling narrative? Learn more from this panel how they are developing a business case for their next phase, migrating to AMI.
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Panel: Considerations on Transition from Your AMI Networks to GEN5 Riva Solution: Lessons Learned
View DetailsAre you considering taking benefit of new technologies like DI-enabled meters? Do you have questions on the challenges, but also the benefits, of migrating from an Itron legacy RF mesh technology to a GEN5 Riva solution? Join this panel for strategic & tactical tips and tricks that Itron network customers that are planning for this technology transition have learned along the way. Utility presenters will share insights and anecdotes from their journey through strategizing and planning for this technology transition. Gain actionable strategies and best practices that could enable you to successfully execute the transition process.
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Panel: Optimizing Your AMI Deployment & Field Area Network - Lessons Learned
View DetailsMany utilities have moved through the initial deployment phase of their AMI networks and are now reaping the benefits of mature, functioning Field Area Networks (FAN). Join this panel for tactical tips and tricks that Itron network customers with mature deployments have learned along the way. Utility presenters will share insights and anecdotes on refining maintenance practices, optimizing network performance, adjusting to changing topography due to factors like seasonal changes and new construction, optimizing GIS, OMS, and AMI data analysis, and balancing IT needs across the organization. Gain actionable strategies and best practices to unlock the full potential of your industrial IoT (IIoT) network, enhancing operational efficiency, improving maintenance practices, and driving business success across your organization.
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Panel: Unlocking Success with Cellular Water AMI - Results, Tips & Tricks!
View DetailsListen to the insights from this water utility panel, as they discuss deploying Cellular AMI with valuable tips they gained along the way. Discover how they’ve embraced change to enhance their strategies across the utility, using data to streamline water operations, improve operational efficiency, and deliver better customer service through detailed consumption data.
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Pepco Holdings (PHI) Uses City Edge to Lay Groundwork for Smart LED Lighting & More
View DetailsThe Itron City Edge planning module application was utilized to improve streetlight inventory data quality, resolve billing issues, and lay the groundwork for the deployment of smart LED streetlights. PHI used Itron City Edge to establish an accurate baseline for street lighting infrastructure and will now use City Edge to execute a multi-phase deployment plan that will accelerate energy savings and improve operational efficiencies.
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Smart meter interoperability – a standardized approach
View DetailsSince the pandemic supply chains have been under much more scrutiny, with a view to building resilience and multi sourcing. Coupled with the energy transition and a wide-spread skills shortages in the utility sector, interoperability and the standardization of meter to cash use cases has never been more important. While on the surface an easy concept, real interoperability is difficult to achieve without established and battle-hardened standards and specifications. This presentation explores the value and the practicality of the DLMS/COSEM Electricity Smart Meter GCP as adopted for the North American market as well as a glimpse into the wider world of International Standards adjacent to the smart meter being established to help the energy transition.
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Solar Battery Access Point (SBAP): Defining Alternatives in Battery Mesh for Gas and Water Utilities
View DetailsLearn about the transformative impact SBAP is providing for utilities exploring network advancements. The new Solar Battery AP introduces an innovative approach for Automated Meter Infrastructure (AMI) for Gas and water utilities. The battery mesh is ideal for utilities with limited physical infrastructure, allowing them to bypass the historic constraints of AMI deployments with dedicated networking equipment.
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Temetra Insights Exchange Pt 1
View DetailsJoin fellow Temetra users for an interactive forum focused on real-world use cases, upcoming features, and open discussion. Share how your utility is using Temetra, hear what others are doing, and help shape the platform’s roadmap. A great opportunity to learn, connect, and influence what’s next.
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Temetra Insights Exchange Pt 2 : Connect, Share, Shape the Future
View DetailsJoin fellow Temetra users for an interactive forum focused on real-world use cases, upcoming features, and open discussion. Share how your utility is using Temetra, hear what others are doing, and help shape the platform’s roadmap. A great opportunity to learn, connect, and influence what’s next.