Aclara Offers New Service Offerings for Water Utilities

ST. LOUIS, June 10, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- As part of its STAR_select™ solution for water utilities, Aclara Technologies LLC, a leading provider of intelligent infrastructure technologies for water, gas and electric utilities, announces a new high-level services program for water utilities that makes it easier to implement a successful AMI strategy.

For those who want assured system performance with end-to-end network management, The Aclara PLATINUM_services™ can accelerate deployment of a full, hosted AMI network for water utilities.

The solutions are a cost-effective way for water utilities to reduce up-front costs and risks related to implementing advanced metering infrastructure (AMI). As part of its solution, Aclara designs, deploys and maintains for the utility a high-performing AMI network infrastructure and related server and head-end software.

PLATINUM_services offers everything needed for implementation of a complete AMI system, including data collection units and the network communications center. Additional offerings in these cost-effective service bundles are installation, preventative and ongoing maintenance, repair, cellular backhaul, software support and upgrades, and hosting with disaster recovery.

PLATINUM_services is a part of STAR_select, Aclara's powerful and proven collection of scalable solutions connecting the company's fixed-network communications with a host of integrated product offerings and professional services for water utilities.

About Aclara
Aclara® represents the industry's leading Intelligent Infrastructure technologies for providing device networking, data-value management, and customer communications to water, gas, and electric utilities globally. Over 500 utilities in nine countries rely on proven Aclara solutions to connect with their customers. Aclara Technologies LLC is owned by Sun Capital Partners. Create Your Intelligent Infrastructure™ www.Aclara.com. Follow us on Twitter @AclaraSolutions.

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