Many utilities can't afford the expensive infrastructure required by typical Smart Meter solutions, yet they are still required to meet their conservation and smart-grid initiative targets. Even in utility districts where smart meters have been installed the public, and utilities are struggling to realize the hyped potential benefits, while trying to recover their large expenditures. Ascent IQ's simple, yet eloquent solution provides excellent energy saving efficiencies with very small start-up costs and almost no infrastructure overhead."

The AscentIQ Wireless Demand Control Solution (DCM) enables utility companies to wirelessly control the energy use of major home and commercial appliances via digital GSM network services. Combining AscentIQ's Demand Control solution with existing powerful M2M networks, utility companies and their customers can selectively control electrical appliances to reduce peak loads and improve energy usage.

This solution also helps utility companies meet conservation targets mandated by recent initiatives, and postpone or eliminate expensive infrastructure build outs, while supporting the nation's focus on moving toward a smarter power grid.

AscentIQ's DCM product combines appliance-control hardware with a software management suite that allows electric utilities to selectively control high-wattage appliances by cycling power in preset patterns, or turning them on or off wirelessly. This allows a utility to mitigate peak demand loads during times when electricity prices are at their premium. The DCM has on-board voltage and current measurements that also help utilities analyze usage and locate trouble spots early.

The solution also provides for orderly recovery of neighborhoods and power grids after extended power-loss events by smoothing out when each controlled appliance gets power. By reducing the in-rush current, and through peak-load cycling, utilities can reduce or significantly delay infrastructure build out costs to neighborhoods.

Unlike other Smart Meter initiatives, the DCM solution does not require expensive infrastructure to be effective - installation is easy for a qualified electrician, and savings can begin immediately.

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