The project, which began late in the fourth quarter of 2007, has been awarded to Networked Energy Services (NES) reseller partner ES Matteknik. Revenue from the project, including data concentrators, and other system components and software, is expected be a total of approximately $4 million.
According to Echelon, building on the ‘smart grid’ concept enabled by the NES system, the Halmstad project will not only utilize a number of advanced metering applications provided by ES, but will also use the NES system as a backbone for a supervisory, control and data acquisition (SCADA) application for electricity transformer supervision.
This SCADA application, provided by Powel, along with the metering applications provided by ES, will run on top of the NES system software. This open web services interface makes it easy to integrate multiple applications onto the system, said Echelon.
Thomas Lundgren, project manager at ES, said: ES is very pleased to expand our advancement metering systems business with this win. By leveraging the success we have had with the NES system at E.ON, we can cost-effectively bring to smaller Swedish utilities the market-leading technologies and services that we have perfected in large-scale deployment.
