Silver Spring Networks Provides Country-Wide Smart Street Light Controls for Jamaica
June 20 2017 - 8:30AM
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Jamaica Public Service Company to Add Up To
110,000 Street Lights Atop Silver Spring’s Multi-Application IPv6
Platform; Expands Existing Advanced Metering Program
Silver Spring Networks, Inc. (NYSE: SSNI) today announced its
first international utility-led, country-wide smart street light
control program with Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS). JPS is
an integrated electric utility company and the sole distributor of
electricity in Jamaica serving over 600,000 customers. JPS will
extend its existing Silver Spring IPv6 platform to connect up to
110,000 smart LED street lights in population centers around the
island including Kingston, Spanish Town, Negril, and Falmouth.
Silver Spring’s Streetlight.Vision Central Management
System (CMS) will also be deployed for JPS through a
Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) model to control and manage the
networked street lights.
The smart street light controls provided by Silver Spring will
help drive additional energy efficiency, which is crucial for
high-cost, petroleum-based island energy grids like in Jamaica.
Smart street light controls can help increase citizen safety by
alerting a utility to light failures and allowing for quicker
repair. Further, smart street light controls can help increase
safety and energy efficiency through adaptive dimming and
brightening capabilities based on pedestrian and vehicular traffic.
JPS’ three-year program to upgrade the lighting infrastructure with
new LED street lights and smart controls will begin this
summer.
“At JPS, we are undertaking a major transformation that is
redefining lighting and energy service delivery by modernizing
Jamaica’s infrastructure, and we are pleased with how Silver Spring
Networks’ technology is facilitating this change,” said Gary
Barrow, Chief Technology Officer, JPS. “We see Silver Spring as
a crucial provider for not only smart grid innovation but also as a
platform for new smart city applications, that will bring new and
relevant applications quickly to the cities of Jamaica.”
“We are excited by how rapidly JPS was able to realize the value
of our platform to connect multiple services,” said Don Reeves,
CTO, Silver Spring Networks. “We believe our success with JPS
demonstrates how effective our technology is in not only meeting a
customer’s initial deployment objective, but how we can set them up
for success in the future.”
Silver Spring works with some of the largest utilities in the
United States for networked street light deployments, including
Florida Power & Light Company for what is believed to be the
largest connected street lighting project in the world consisting
of nearly 500,000 networked street lights across Miami and South
Florida, and with Oklahoma Gas & Electric for up to 250,000
networked street lights across its service territory. In addition,
Silver Spring connects smart street lights in other locations
around the globe such as in Bristol, Copenhagen, Halifax, Glasgow,
London, Paris and in Providence, RI.
Multi-Application IPv6 Drives Value for Existing Advanced
Metering Program
Silver Spring has been working with JPS since 2016 to deploy its
multi-application IPv6 platform to connect approximately 20,000
advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) devices across seven
parishes on the island. Additionally, Silver Spring today announced
that it has been selected by JPS to connect an additional
approximately 30,000 AMI devices for residential and commercial
& industrial customers through Silver Spring’s
multi-application IPv6 platform. The program aims to help improve
customer experience, grid reliability and protection of
revenue.
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www.ssni.com/solutions/smart-utilities/
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About Silver Spring Networks
Silver Spring Networks enables the Internet of Important Things™
by reliably and securely connecting things that matter. Cities,
utilities, and companies on five continents use the company’s
cost-effective, high-performance IoT network and data platform to
operate more efficiently, get greener, and enable innovative
services that can improve the lives of millions of people. With
more than 26.0 million devices delivered, Silver Spring provides a
proven standards-based platform safeguarded with military grade
security. Silver Spring Networks’ customers include Baltimore Gas
& Electric, CitiPower & Powercor, ComEd, Consolidated
Edison, CPS Energy, Florida Power & Light, Pacific Gas &
Electric, Pepco Holdings, and Singapore Power. Silver Spring has
also deployed networks in Smart Cities including Copenhagen,
Glasgow, Halifax, Paris, Providence, and Stockholm. To learn more,
visit www.ssni.com.
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements about
Silver Spring Networks’ expectations, plans, intentions, and
strategies, including, but not limited to statements regarding the
scope, benefits, and timing of Silver Spring’s engagement with
Jamaica Public Service Company. Statements including words such as
“anticipate”, “believe”, “estimate”, “expect” or “future” and
statements in the future tense are forward-looking statements.
These forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties,
as well as assumptions, which, if they do not fully materialize or
prove incorrect, could cause our results to differ materially from
those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. The
risks and uncertainties include the successful implementation and
deployment of the engagement, as well as those described in Silver
Spring Networks’ documents filed with or furnished to the
Securities and Exchange Commission. All forward-looking statements
in this press release are based on information available to Silver
Spring Networks as of the date hereof. Silver Spring Networks
assumes no obligation to update these forward-looking
statements.
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