Ecologic Analytics Announces SOA-based Interface for Silver Spring Networks

-The new gateway completes testing at the Ecologic Integration Lab
and is ready for deployment-
MINNEAPOLIS--(Business Wire)--
Ecologic Analytics, a leading provider of meter data management
systems (MDMS) and decision management technologies for electric,
natural gas and water utilities, announced today that the new AMI
interface (i.e. gateway) for Silver Spring Networks' latest version of
Utility IQ has received deployment certification from the Ecologic
Integration Lab.

Designed to support large deployments, this new multi-threaded
gateway enables the Ecologic MDMS to provision the Utility IQ meters
as well as receive reads and event data from them. The Ecologic
Integration Lab certified the gateway for Utility IQ using eight
real-world scenarios to simulate the typical meter lifecycle:

-- Meter Install

-- Meter Update

-- Premise Update

-- Meter Read

-- Meter Remove

-- Meter Exchange

-- Set Administrative State

-- Event Processing

Across a service territory, these eight meter lifecycle stages are
in a continuous state of change. The new gateway for Utility IQ allows
utilities to propagate changes to meter configurations and validate
reads continuously, keeping usage measurement closely aligned with
billing requirements in a near real-time fashion.

"To help utilities take advantage of new AMI features as they
become available, we manage the integration with providers like Silver
Spring Networks," said David Hubbard, co-founder and chief technology
officer for Ecologic Analytics. "The near real-time data streams
flowing between the MDMS and the AMI system provide us with an
opportunity to process data more efficiently."

Later this year, Ecologic Analytics plans to enable more
functionality through the Silver Spring Networks gateway. Integration
to support advanced functionalities such as outage and restoration
event management, on-demand meter reads, power status checks, remote
connect/disconnect and other command and control capabilities will be
completed.

The complementary service-oriented architecture (SOA) strategies
of Silver Spring Networks and Ecologic Analytics allows utilities to
take advantage of streaming AMI data that enables faster access to the
data than using traditional periodic file transfer methods. Processing
the raw data as it arrives can reduce the time required to complete
load, validation, estimation and editing routines. The combination of
getting reads as they are available and processing them immediately
can enable actionable information to be published to subscribing
systems such as billing and outage management in record time.

"We are happy to have integrated our solution with the Ecologic
MDMS, said Don Reeves, vice president of Software Engineering for
Silver Spring Networks."Their system can integrate via SOA and
streaming interfaces. This, combined with the scalability of their
system, makes it conducive for managing the volume of near-real-time
data that our solution can provide."

Interoperability with Utility IQ is part of Ecologic Analytics'
broader SOA strategy. The company continues to expose Web services for
the major integration points to the AMI technology providers and
utility systems for billing, customer service, outage management and
more.

Integration with the Utility IQ is available with the current
version of the Ecologic MDMS. For more information, send an e-mail to
contact@ecologicanalytics.com.

About Ecologic Analytics:

Ecologic Analytics, LLC is a leading provider of meter data
management (MDM) software solutions and decision management
technologies for electric, natural gas and water utilities. The
Ecologic Analytics solution offers a flexible, configurable and highly
scalable architecture, enabling it to receive data from any AMI/AMR
system and/or manual source. Its world-class engines and analytics
provide utilities with support for critical operational and business
processes. Founded in 2000, the company is headquartered in
Bloomington, Minnesota. For more information, visit
http://www.ecologicanalytics.com.

Ecologic Analytics
Matt Schwarz, 952-843-6043
E-mail: mschwarz@ecologicanalytics.com

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