Pequot Lakes, Minn., July 16, 2001 — Hunt Technologies announces an alliance with CES International to bring a new, integrated energy management solution to electric and water utility customers.
This alliance will utilize the marketing and product strengths of both companies, integrating CES's outage management system with Hunt's Turtle automated meter reading system. The Minnesota-based Turtle System serves more than 15 million meter end points for rural electric cooperatives, municipals, and investor-owned utilities. Atlanta-based CES provides operations resource management solutions for some of the world's investor-owned utilities.
"This alliance enables us to offer all utilities — cooperatives, municipals, and investor-owned — a complete, integrated package of automated meter reading and outage management software," said Bruce Kraemer, CEO of Hunt Technologies.
The CES outage management system will work with the Turtle automated meter reading device to increase utility efficiencies by automating their manual approach to handling power outages and dispatching repair crews. Ultimately, this allows the utility to quickly restore power to the end customer.
"By combining the data-gathering capabilities of Hunt's Turtle AMR system with CES' Centricity outage management system, we are empowering utilities large and small with the information they need to gain efficiencies in their operations and, as a result, better serve their customers," said Dave Jones, CEO and president of CES International.
About Hunt Technologies Inc.
Hunt Technologies, Inc., is a Minnesota-based electronic design firm with more than 350 utility customers worldwide. The company's flagship product is the Turtle automated meter-reading system that remotely reads residential electric and water meters. Using a patented ultra narrow bandwidth (UNB) technology, the Turtle System offers an inexpensive solution to simultaneously read all meters and provide comprehensive data that is utilized for billing services, distribution system maintenance, customer service, and line loss prevention. More information on Hunt Technologies, Inc. is available at www.turtletech.com.
About CES International
CES International is a global supplier of real-time software solutions for distribution utilities. CES' flagship product, the Centricity operations resource management (ORM) system, optimizes distribution-network operations and reliability, dramatically increasing customer-service capabilities.
The Centricity information infrastructure enables the safe and efficient integration of emerging power technologies with traditional distribution networks. Equipped with comprehensive energy-delivery management capabilities, Centricity helps customers achieve enhanced return on network assets and deliver the "high 9s" reliability and power-quality levels demanded by the information economy. For more information on CES International, visit www.ces.com or call 1-800-450-0266.
