On-Ramp Joins Energy Technology Coalition to Advance Smart Grid

Company joins 25 forward-thinking organizations with
its interoperable, energy-efficient wide-area wireless networking system

San Diego, Calif., September 30, 2009 – On-Ramp Wireless (On-Ramp) announced it was named one of 25 companies chosen to pioneer one of the regions’ most sophisticated projects by San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E) to advance the development of a smarter electrical grid. On-Ramp Wireless will provide engineering and network design, installation and testing of a robust wide-area wireless networking system as part of the initiative. The project will integrate On-Ramp’s Ultra-Link Processing™ network to minimize the environmental impact of energy consumption.

On-Ramp’s Ultra-Link Processing system provides the range and capacity for energy-efficiency and intermittency applications distributed over wide geographic areas and in challenging environments. Additionally, the network integrates with SDG&E’s central data center systems for interoperability and security while developing smart grid feature. On-Ramp’s purpose built network also provides standard interfaces for the region’s existing local area or wide area network, enabling rapid integration of faulted circuit indicators, hard to reach meters, substation monitoring, sensors and devices.

“The forward-thinking and experience of the coalition of companies, universities and agencies that will work on the smart grid demonstration project strengthens our ability to accelerate the development of a smart grid that will benefit our customers in their every day energy usage needs,” said Lee Krevat, director of smart grid for SDG&E.

The coalition will build on SDG&E’s smart grid foundation that includes smart meters, the new outage and distribution management system, and self-healing and microgrid technology. It will ultimately allow for the increased utilization of renewable energy generation on both the transmission and distribution systems. This includes energy storage devices such as battery technology being developed by the electric car industry, advanced sensors such as synchrophasors, dynamic ratings and fault locators, smart appliances and devices for in-home and in-business use, and a software application to balance energy supply and demand.

“We are honored to be a part of SDG&E’s ongoing effort to develop a smarter grid and look forward to applying our wireless technology to help introduce additional green initiatives to the market.” said Joaquin Silva, president and CEO of On-Ramp

About On-Ramp
On-Ramp is a provider of the first wireless system purpose-built to efficiently connect billions of hard-to-reach devices in metro scale and other challenging environments. On-Ramp’s field-proven Ultra-Link ProcessingTM system enables low-power monitoring and control applications within Smart Grid, industrial sensing, and location tracking. Operating in un-licensed spectrum, our signal processing innovation finds weak signals even in high noise environments, yielding extreme coverage, immunity to high interference, and significantly lowers cost.

For more information, visit www.onrampwireless.com.

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