The company will leverage the solution to monitor and measure electric distribution and consumption on a single designated communications highway for all related utility applications.

Smart metering and communication company Sensus will partner with Peco to deploy its FlexNet communications system and smart meters to enable outage management, distribution automation and voltage monitoring.

Peter Mainz, president and CEO of Sensus, said: “We are honored to be selected by Peco to support the successful deployment of their smart grid strategies.

“Our proven and tested approach to AMI will leverage one common network to support their smart grid communications needs, not only for today, but well into the future.”