Profile: Ambient Corp (AMBT.OQ)

Ambient Corporation (Ambient), incorporated on June 26, 1996, is a provider of a smart grid communications platform designed to enable utilities to deploy, integrate and communicate with multiple devices creating smart grid applications within the electric power grid. The Ambient Smart Grid communications platform, which includes hardware, software and firmware, enables utilities to effectively manage smart grid applications. The Company's communications platform provides utilities with a secure, two-way and open Internet protocol (IP), architecture that networks smart grid applications and different technologies within each application and supports multiple communications technologies used by utilities, such as Wireless Fidelity (Wi-Fi), radio frequency, cellular technologies, power line communications, serial and Ethernet.

The Company's communications platform enables the simultaneous integration and parallel communication of multiple smart grid applications provided by a variety of vendors, including smart metering, demand response and distribution automation. The Ambient Smart Grid products and services include communications nodes; a network management system, AmbientNMS; integrated applications, and maintenance and consulting services. The communications nodes, the Company's principal product, are physical boxes that contain the hardware and software needed for communications and data collection in support of smart grid assets. The Company has configured its communications nodes to act as individual data processors and collectors that receive signals from other networked devices, enabling smart grid applications.

The Company's communications nodes can also contain the Company's own or third-party embedded smart grid applications. The Company customizes AmbientNMS , providing a utility with the tools necessary to tailor its monitoring and processing and to acts upon vast amounts of information on a real-time basis. The Company has integrated its AmbientNMS into an industry standard Distribution and Outage Management System (DOMS) that provides for the delivery of accurate information to power outage notification and restoration systems.

The Company's partial discharge monitoring technology that allows its communications platform to pull information from the medium voltage distribution lines, also allows its communications nodes to monitor the health of the power lines. The Company's communications platform offers utilities this information, thereby allowing utilities the ability to more-effectively maintain their underground distribution lines and manage their replacement schedules.

The Company provides maintenance and implementation services to maintain the software installed within its communications platform. The Company can remotely distribute software upgrades and added features to deployed communications nodes within the network. The Company also provides a variety of consulting services relating to product development, network management services and smart grid deployment strategies. The Company provides maintenance and consulting services to provide a turnkey offering of its communications platform.