On-Ramp Wireless and NURI Telecom Provide Complete Connectivity Solution for the Next-Generation Smart Grid
San Diego, Calif. – March 9, 2010 – On-Ramp Wireless today announced that it has joined forces with NURI Telecom (KOSDAQ: 040160.KQ), a leading global provider of utility IT and end-to-end Smart Grid infrastructure solutions, to develop a cost-efficient single technology wireless network metering solution. The solution will enable connectivity for hard-to-reach meters, which can represent up to 10 percent of a single Smart Grid meter deployment, to help Smart Grid suppliers ensure 100 percent connectivity.
Presently, there is no cost effective method for connecting to hard-to-reach meters. More problematically, the issue becomes apparent only after live deployment. On-Ramp’s Ultra-Link Processing™ (ULP) system alleviates these costs for providers, and ultimately consumers, as it is the first system to demodulate signals below the noise floor while effectively maintaining high network capacity. Overall, the ULP system provides a significant network coverage and capacity advantage compared with competing free-spectrum systems.
“The hard-to-reach meter is one of the biggest challenges for providers in achieving a complete communication system within the Smart Grid,” said Mr. Choong Seon Hwang, vice president of engineering for NURI Telecom. “On-Ramp’s ULP technology has clearly demonstrated wireless connectivity in some of the most challenging environments. It has connected successfully in underground locations, many floors above the target and several kilometers away, which is simply impossible with any other single technology available today.”
NURI Telecom has pursued the Smart Grid comprehensively in hopes of powering its future growth and ultimately increasing energy efficiency. Its smart metering solution, AiMiR™, provides simultaneous automatic meter readings of electricity, water, gas and other measurements, to help consumers manage their resource consumption.
“NURI Telecom has demonstrated a sophisticated understanding of the extensive connectivity needs for the Smart Grid and for smart metering,” said Jeff Gray, senior vice president of sales and marketing for On-Ramp Wireless. “Furthermore, we have been exceptionally impressed with the advanced system and environment solutions NURI Telecom offers, particularly in regards to its network management system solutions, which promote an extremely cost efficient, consumer-friendly business model.”
On-Ramp and NURI Telecom will be showcasing integration of the ULP technology with a NURI Smart Meter solution at DistribuTECH from March 23-25 in Tampa, Florida. On-Ramp will be located at Booth 454.
About On-Ramp Wireless
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 Processing™ 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.
About NURI Telecom Co., Ltd.
NURI Telecom, founded in 1992 and headquartered in Seoul, Korea, is a leading provider of utility IT and end-to-end Smart Grid infrastructure solutions. NURI Telecom’s smart metering solution, AiMiR™, which includes a set of network communication devices over the LAN and WAN infrastructure and head-end server software, enables utilities to route energy and water more efficiently, enabling two-way, real-time information exchange with its customers. NURI Telecom has extensive experience in implementing AMI solutions for electric, gas and water utility companies around the world, including Korea Electric Power Corporation (KEPCO) of South Korea and Göteborg Energi of Sweden. These deployments make NURI Telecom a dominant player in AMI implantation for the Smart Grid. For more information, please visit www.nuritelecom.com.
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