SmartSynch brings meter automation to Springfield, MO
SmartSynch Inc will provide City Utilities of Springfield, Missouri, with a complete smart metering solution for participating commercial and industrial customers on its system. The solution will include smart meters, as well as a communications platform and head-end system.
Later this spring, City Utilities will begin deploying SmartSynch’s IP-enabled C&I SmartMeters using existing cellular networks as the wireless communications backbone. The system will enable the city to automate processes for its participating commercial and industrial customers’ electric meters.
SmartSynch’s technology will also help CU better address customer service requests and power outages in a safe and timely manner, while reducing meter reading, work order costs and overall carbon footprint resulting from decreased truck rolls.
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