Hawaiian Electric Company (HECO) Expands FlexNet Deployment
11/29/2007
After a successful technical trial in 2006 involving 500 smart meters on Oahu, Hawaiian Electric Company (HECO) expanded the wireless smart meter project to 3000 meters in the Ocean Pointe and Ewa Beach communities this March. Smart meters have been dispersed throughout Oaho to provide a realistic network environment to further explore the operation performance and capabilities of an advanced metering network.
HECO's Customer Installations Department (CID) is currently working with global metering leader, Sensus Metering Systems Inc., to deploy, validate and gain operational insight into an advanced metering and communications technology called FlexNet. This unique technology provides capabilities such as automated meter reading, interval data collection, voltage monitoring, on-demand meter reads, and remote control of customer loads. All of these features support new pricing and demand response initiatives that will help our customers manage their electricity use in new ways.
Click the link below to read the complete article as it appears in the HECO publication. Refer to the Smart Metering article on page 6 of the PDF.
File: HECO_Fall_2007.pdf