SINGAPORE–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Silver Spring Networks, Inc. (NYSE: SSNI) today announced that it has
been named the Frost Sullivan 2016 Asia-Pacific Smart Grid Service
Provider of the Year. Each year, Frost Sullivan recognizes a company
in the smart grid industry through its evaluation of leadership,
technological innovation, customer service, and strategic product
development. Silver Spring delivers a proven platform, solutions and
services used by major utilities and cities around the world to support
multiple smart grid, smart city and other industrial Internet of Things
(IoT) applications. With more than 2.5 million enabled devices delivered
in Asia-Pacific, Silver Spring helps some of the region’s most standout
energy providers, including AusNet
Services, CESC,
CitiPower
Powercor, Horizon
Power, Jemena,
Singapore
Power, SmartCo,
Unison,
United
Energy, WEL
Networks and Western
Power, to modernize their infrastructure, to help their customers
improve energy management and to increase grid reliability.
“Silver Spring Networks has helped shape the face of the smart grid
services industry in the Asia-Pacific region by showcasing its
unparalleled services,” said Avanthika Satheesh, Industry Analyst,
Energy Environment Practice, Asia Pacific, Frost Sullivan. “The
company is at the forefront of smart grid services by offering effective
solutions for the challenging and evolving demands of the smart grid
market, while meeting and exceeding the demands of its customers.”
“As the demand for the digitization of the grid increases in
Asia-Pacific, we believe that we can offer the most flexible and
reliable smart grid services and solutions to meet the diverse needs of
the industry in the region,” said Eric Dresselhuys, Co-Founder and EVP
of Global Development, Silver Spring Networks. “We are truly honored to
be recognized by Frost Sullivan as the ‘Asia-Pacific Smart Grid
Service Provider of the Year,’ as we aim to help more customers realize
the benefits that can be delivered through our technology and our
expertise for building a smarter world of intelligent, connected
devices.“
With its fifth generation platform – Gen5 – Silver Spring can offer
operators speeds up to 2.4 Mbps, simultaneous mesh communication on both
sub-Gigahertz and 2.4 GHz frequencies, integration of 4G LTE
communications, and industry-leading performance, reliability, security
and scalability. By leveraging a number of global and local partners
from Silver Spring’s robust partner ecosystem, Silver Spring’s
standards-based Gen5 technology can also help operators implement a wide
range of applications using a common platform.
For more information, please visit: www.silverspringnet.com/Gen5.
Join the Silver Spring Networks Conversation
Read more on the Silver Spring Connect blog at
www.silverspringnet.com/blog
Follow @SilverSpringNet on Twitter
Like Silver Spring Networks on Facebook at www.facebook.com/silverspringnetworks
Learn more about the Wi-Sun Alliance and the value of open
standards-based IoT networking at www.wi-sun.org
About Silver Spring Networks
Silver Spring Networks is a leading networking platform and solutions
provider for smart energy networks. Silver Spring’s pioneering IPv6
networking platform, with over 24.3 million Silver Spring enabled
devices delivered, is connecting utilities to homes and businesses
throughout the world with the goal of achieving greater energy
efficiency for the planet. Silver Spring’s innovative solutions enable
utilities to gain operational efficiencies, improve grid reliability,
and empower consumers to monitor and manage energy consumption. Silver
Spring Networks’ customers include major utilities around the globe such
as Baltimore Gas Electric, CitiPower Powercor, Commonwealth Edison,
Consolidated Edison, CPS Energy, Florida Power Light, Jemena
Electricity Networks Limited, Pacific Gas Electric, Pepco Holdings,
Progress Energy, and Singapore Power, among others. To learn more,
please 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 benefits of
Silver Spring’s platform, solutions and services and the performance of
its fifth generation platform. 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 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.
This article was originally written in: http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20161017005381/en/Silver-Spring-Networks-Receives-Frost-Sullivan-Asia-Pacific. You can use, free of charge, when Creative Commons (CC) license appears in article source. CC is an American non-profit organization devoted to expanding the range of creative works available for others to build upon legally and to share. If you detect that is not authorized, please contact with us to delete.