Smart Grid Infrastructure
The NES Smart Metering System
At Echelon, we believe the smart grid is an energy network. It includes not only the electricity distribution infrastructure itself, but everything that draws power from or contributes power to the grid — such as appliances in homes, HVAC equipment in buildings, and streetlights in cities.
Our smart metering solution — the NES System — is a critical part of the smart grid. A flexible, networked infrastructure, it can easily adapt to changing market and regulatory needs. It can allow new edge devices beyond the meter, new software-enabled services, and new payment and pricing models for consumers.
Only a system solution to metering can do this. Only the NES System can do this.
The NES System
Unlike a meshed RF solution that uses an add-on communications card bolted to a meter, the NES System resides in the electricity wires, converting a utility’s existing metering system into a smart energy network.
NES System Advantages
The NES System's advantages stem from our system approach. Our components work together to meet the needs of the smart metering and AMI markets from the perspective of the grid, not just the meter.
NES System Components
Our smart meters, data concentrators, and system software increase the system's power and intelligence, and provide the highest level of reliability and performance with the lowest cost of ownership.