• The NES System Architecture
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• The NES System Components
• NES vs. Traditional AMR
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NES: The Power Behind Smart Metering

Networked Energy Services — ushering in a new era in smart metering.

With its open, bidirectional, and extensible infrastructure, Echelon's Networked Energy Services system enables a comprehensive range of utility applications. It goes far beyond traditional automatic meter reading (AMR) systems, which offer only limited meter-reading functionality over proprietary, often one-way communication modules retrofitted to conventional electricity meters.

Instead, the NES system provides a state-of-the-art, future-proof smart metering system that brings new features and benefits to every aspect of your utility’s operations — from metering and customer services to distribution operations and value-added business. What's more, it offers an unmatched return on investment, with a typical payback period of two to five years.

Elegant System Architecture

The NES system consists of a tightly integrated set of components that provide the infrastructure to deliver networked energy services to your utility. The system architecture includes intelligent, communicating digital electricity meters; powerful IP-connected data concentrators; and scalable system software.

Metering and More

Our suite of advanced metering features lets you quickly deploy the cost-effective NES system to immediately reduce your costs and improve your operations. Yet the NES system is more than an advanced metering system: It's also a complete energy services platform that supports many functions beyond metering. Its intelligent communication networks can inherently realize multiple utility services at minimal incremental costs — and often, at no cost. This makes the NES system an investment that can deliver additional valuable returns to you and your customers for decades.

While traditional AMR systems struggle to provide any upgrade path for future enhancements, the NES system is built to last for more than 20 years and is designed to economically grow with, and adapt to, your business over its lifetime. All system components can be seamlessly upgraded and enhanced over the network from a remote central office, without needing to send personnel to the field. This means your utility can easily and securely enable additional services — as well as improve customer service and utility operations — without incurring significant logistical expenses or disrupting either your customers or your business.

We Have the Experience You Need

With over a decade of experience supplying utilities worldwide with the core infrastructure for smart metering, Echelon is uniquely qualified to offer an open system that lets you enhance its features over time with products and services from many reputable suppliers. Our NES Value-Added Reseller program lets other companies closely support and augment the NES infrastructure, protecting your smart-metering investment from dependence on any one vendor. The program offers services such as software integration, application development, project management logistics, and operations, as well as the design and production of NES-compatible meters.

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