- April 18, 2008
- Schneider Electric
PALATINE, Ill. — April 18, 2008 — Schneider Electric incorporated PrimeRead software into its product lineup. Designed by Primestone Corporation, a long-established developer of automated meter reading technologies, PrimeRead software aids utilities in the automated collection and management of metering data. The multivendor, multinetwork software supports a full complement of current communications network technologies and meter types, enabling the use of new technologies as they emerge.PrimeRead software has a unique, open architecture design that fosters superior flexibility and simplifies data exchange with corporate information technology systems for billing, operations and customer information. PrimeRead software, along with the application’s modern relational database, eliminates the need to maintain an obscure, obsolete database structure or proprietary file formats.The software’s reporting capabilities set it apart from the competition. Utilities can create and schedule unlimited reports by using standard reporting tools, such as Crystal Reports; access more than 100 standard provided report templates; and easily e-mail or post reports to FTP sites. With its decision cube, advanced filtering, spreadsheets and graphics, PrimeRead software doubles as a powerful yet inexpensive data mining tool. Further defining PrimeRead software as today’s best-of-breed application are its auto-correction capability for daylight-saving time and unlimited, customizable calendars through which utilities may perform data analysis and apply time-of-use structures.“Utilities are demanding improved communications systems and adherence to open standards so they can move toward a smart grid system in which devices communicate and make the network more reliable,” said Michael Burns, national sales manager of utilities for Schneider Electric’s Power Management Operations. “PrimeRead software easily manages the large amounts of data inherent in utility monitoring and control systems and turns them into actionable information by reporting, analysis and sharing with other applications. The software gives utilities the power to take advantage of ever-changing developments in communications standards and technologies.”“PrimeRead software supports online and interactive data validation. VEE routines are configurable to customers’ needs, based on their market operator or regulatory requirements. It enables meter data management for AMI and takes advantage of all Windows operational and connectivity options, thus minimizing the learning curve and optimizing workflow,” Burns said. “PrimeRead software also complements other Schneider Electric energy and operations management solutions, including PowerLogic metering systems.”About Schneider Electric Headquartered in Paris, France, Schneider Electric is a global electrical industry leader with sales of $23.7 billion (U.S.) in 2007. The North American Operating Division of Schneider Electric, headquartered in Palatine, Ill., is one of four operating divisions of Schneider Electric, and markets the Square D, Telemecanique and Merlin Gerin brand products to customers in the United States, Canada and Mexico. In the United States, Schneider Electric is best known by its flagship Square D brand, with Telemecanique becoming increasingly known in the industrial control and automation markets and supported by many Square D distributors. For more than 100 years, Square D has been a market-leading brand of electrical distribution and industrial control products, systems and services. Visit Schneider Electric on the Internet at:About Primestone, LLC, and Primestone S.A.Primestone, LLC, and Primestone S.A., founded in 1990, is a developer and vendor of various types and levels of advanced utility meter interval data management software and support services. The company’s software primarily is used in North America and internationally by water, gas and electric utilities to communicate with and to acquire and archive interval revenue data from varied and diverse metering platforms. Primestone also produces applications for use by large commercial, industrial and institutional customers.
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