TWACS Technology
Specification Sheets
Technology Advantages
Effects on Utility Operations
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Enables use of multiple software platforms in time-critical operational scenarios such as outage management and restoration.
Provides positive outage notification and restoration confirmation to save time and money and improve customer satisfaction.
Provides fast access to AMI data through an easy-to-use graphical interface.
Allows utilities to monitor, collect, communicate, and correlate usage data effectively for better outage, energy and resource management.
Provides a simple way to connect and reconnect power customers, which eliminate service calls and saves the utility time and money.
Delivers a cost effective and flexible way to collect payment in advance of customer usage.
Integrates data from water and gas meters into a power line carrier fixed network, allowing utilities to collect total consumption data for billing and resource management.
The TWACS® UMT-C for commercial and industrial customers provides the utility with remote, two-way access to usage and voltage data.
The TWACS® CMT remotely captures and transmits electric-usage billing and interval data in real time to meet the load-profiling requirements of direct-access commercial accounts.
The TWACS® UMT-R for solid state, residential meters provides remote, two-way access to usage and voltage data and ensures recent meter data is available to the utility.
The TWACS® XM transponder for residential meters captures complete and accurate billing data with scheduled and on-request remote reads from individual or groups of meters.
Reduces peak-power costs without impacting customer service when energy demand is high.
Two-way solution helps dispatchers make better distribution decisions and reduces costly on-site maintenance.
Simplifies launching, monitoring, and maintaining TWACS systems, saving time, eliminating installation errors, and helping better track metering data.
An expandable home area network that employs a variety of intelligent devices to help customers make smart decisions to conserve energy.
Increases the rate at which meters can be added to and addressed in the TWACS AMI system.
The intelligent interface between the Central TWACS® Net Server (TNS) master station software and remote transponders.
Receives messages, alerts, billing, and account information, keeping customers informed so they can make money- and energy-saving decisions.
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