Palmetto Electric Cooperative, Inc.

Palmetto wanted capabilities to beat the bandwidth. Specifi cally, to increase bandwidth to its substations for the automated meter reading (AMR) system. Its older radio system was used for polled data, too slow to provide the speed of broadband to transmit data from substations to its main offi ce. Other choices, such as phone lines and T1 lines, were costprohibitive and problematic.

Canopy system,doesn't require licensing and seamlessly extends a computer network without monthly fees or high phone line costs. Since its deployment a year ago, Palmetto has switched to running its SCADA system and accessing AMR data over Canopy, using it as a T1 replacement,and relying on it for backhaul and point-to-point between substations and the main office

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