Discovering 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.

When 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.

Converting 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.

Lost 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.

Join 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.

Join 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.

Join 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.

Modernizing 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.

Accurate 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.

Wildfire 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.

Gas 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.

This 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. 

FDM 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.  

Smart 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.

Get 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.

Ensuring 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.

ComEd 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.

This 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.