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Liberty Lake, WA, Dec. 21, 2006 -- Itron Inc. announced that it has signed a comprehensive automated meter reading (AMR) contract with Montana-Dakota Utilities Co. (Montana-Dakota) for approximately 277,000 electric and gas meters in Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota and Wyoming. The contract includes Itron solid state electric meters, gas AMR modules, Itron Fixed Network 2.0, mobile data collectors, Itron Enterprise Edition Meter Data Management software solutions, project management and installation services.
Montana-Dakota chose to deploy Itron's integrated AMR solution in hopes of improving customer service and reduce operating costs. In addition to the fixed network system, Montana-Dakota is implementing Itron's Meter Data Management (MDM) software enterprise wide, to provide enhanced data analysis and to provide flexibility for future system changes. The utility will saturate the majority of their meters with AMR technology and use Itron mobile AMR and Fixed Network systems to read those meters. Montana-Dakota is deploying fixed network technology for outage management capabilities and off-cycle reads to enhance customer service.
Itron's end-to-end solutions include solid-state electric meters and gas meter modules to back office software to support, data analysis and outage management. Because Montana-Dakota's service territory covers such extensive terrain and rural/urban service areas, Montana-Dakota chose to implement the most economic data collection method for each area.
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