While smart metering rollouts are well underway in many utilities, advanced services such as on-demand reads, home area networking (HAN), demand response and consumer portals are driving the migration to fixed-base, radio frequency advanced metering—a  paradigm shift from traditional drive or walk-by systems.

Today's electricity applications require a smart metering device with the flexibility to balance a wide variety of ever changing factors and service quality demands. Sensus' iCON market leading family of residential, and commercial and industrial (C&I) meters deliver  accuracy, reliability and quality. Combined with the true two-way communications on the FlexNet network, electricity providers can instantly configure, upgrade and customize the iCON meter's electricity management platform for unparalleled efficiency and responsiveness. Key features include:

• ZigBee certified with PKI authentication
• Designed for billing accuracy
• Future ready - remotely upgradeable
• Reliable integrated construction
• Extensive meter event logging
• IP addressable through FlexNet 
• Up to four seasons of Time-of-Use (TOU) in up to 5 tiers of data