Cyient Wins Itron’s Ignite Innovation Challenge with Outage Management App
October 18 2016 - 9:00AM
Business Wire
App builds on the power of the Itron Riva
platform to improve outage notifications
Itron, Inc. (NASDAQ: ITRI), a world-leading technology and
services company dedicated to the resourceful use of energy and
water, announced today that Cyient, a global provider of
engineering, manufacturing, data analytics, networks and operations
solutions, has won Itron’s Ignite Innovation Challenge at Itron
Utility Week in Orlando, Florida. The contest invited IoT
developers to create a connected, resourceful solution to address
pressing challenges that is built on the Itron Riva™ platform, the
first-of-its-kind distributed intelligence platform that supports
sensing technologies and dynamic applications at the device
level.
Developed by Cyient’s team, the Cyient Power Chargers, the
winning project is a mobile and web application for outage
management that predicts and proactively communicates outages to
customers. The application enables immediate communication to
affected customers on outage incidents and restoration status,
while also enabling customers to report an outage. It provides a
visual look and feel of the outage and restored areas for both the
consumers and field crew. The utility’s operations can use the near
real-time outage notifications to quickly predict fault
locations.
“Outage management is a challenging business operations task and
most utilities respond reactively. Our app predicts and proactively
communicates outages and manages estimated restoration times to
achieve enhanced customer satisfaction. This is made possible using
the Itron Riva platform’s edge computing capabilities for near
real-time outage communication,” said Jaishankar Jayaraman, contest
team leader and head of Cyient’s North America Solutions.
“Itron is pleased to announce Cyient as the winner of our Ignite
Innovation Challenge. Using the Itron Riva platform and the power
of the Internet of Things, Cyient put technology to use to address
today’s energy resource challenges,” said Dr. Roberto Aiello,
managing director of the Itron Idea Labs. “Ignite Innovation
Challenge is a great example of how third party developers can
utilize Itron’s flexible, multi-party platform to create numerous
possibilities for realizing the promise of the IoT to empower
smarter utilities and smarter cities worldwide.”
About Itron
Itron is a world-leading technology and services company
dedicated to the resourceful use of energy and water. We provide
comprehensive solutions that measure, manage and analyze energy and
water. Our broad product portfolio includes electricity, gas, water
and thermal energy measurement devices and control technology;
communications systems; software; as well as managed and consulting
services. With thousands of employees supporting nearly 8,000
customers in more than 100 countries, Itron applies knowledge and
technology to better manage energy and water resources. Together,
we can create a more resourceful world. Join us: www.itron.com.
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