From Business Case Planning toBenefit Reality – An Industry

Perspective

Walter Levesque

Vice President, Sales

Hunt Technologies, Inc.

• Founded in 1985 as a research company

• 1994 Patented Ultra Narrow Bandwidth (UNB) Technology

• Located in Pequot Lakes, MN

• 130+ employees

• 430+ customers

• 3,000,000+ endpoints

Hunt Technologies, Inc.

Substation

Two-Way CommunicationAlways On™ Each endpoint broadcasts information independently

Near Real Time Downstream

UNB Upstream

Primary Business Case Reasons for AMR Based on Information from Chartwell and Howard Scott Prepared: June 2002

0%

5%

10%

15%

20%

25%

30%

35%

40%

Hard-to-reads

CostSavings

CustomerService

Safety Need forFrequentReads

FutureNeeds

Accuracy Detailedcustomeruse info.

ReduceStaff

Fasterreads

2000 2001

Emerging Benefits of AMR Based on Information from Chartwell and Howard Scott Prepared: June 2002

0%

2%

4%

6%

8%

10%

12%

14%

TOU Pricing OutageMonitoring

Load Control CustomerEnergy

Management

InternetAccess

On/Off Service DistributedAutomation

Security HomeAutomation

2000 2001

Important Deliverables

Meter Reading•Time-of-Use•Demand – system wide•Load Profiles•Multi-Utility

Monitoring•Outage Detection•Power Restoration

Distribution Operations• Preventive Maintenance • Load/Transformer Balancing • Power Quality • Reduce Line Loss

Control • Load Control• Remote Disconnect• Remote Reconnect

Consumption Profiles

• 5 minute intervals aggregated into 15 minute

intervals

• 15 minute intervals directed into rate periods

• Support of four rate periods

• Time synchronized to National Standard

Consumption Profiles

12:00am 6:00 7:00 8:00 9:00 12:00pm 6:00 7:00 8:00 9:00 11:59pm

OFF PEAK

SHOULDER PEAK$.04 $.07 $.13

5

2

4

Important Deliverables

Meter Reading•Time-of-Use•Demand – system wide•Load Profiles•Multi-Utility

Monitoring•Outage Detection•Power Restoration

Control • Load Control• Remote Disconnect• Remote Reconnect

Distribution Operations• Preventive Maintenance • Load/Transformer Balancing • Power Quality • Reduce Line Loss

End Point Information System

• Power Quality– Line Loss– Transformer

Balancing & Sizing– Phase Loading &

Identification– Preventative

Maintenance S/N 12412

S/N 12357

S/N 12342

S/N 12323

S/N 6783

S/N 12430

S/N 12380

S/N 12452 S/N 6714

S/N 12306

S/N 12370

Remote Administration

• Command Messaging- Demand reset- Load Control with validation- Service disconnect/reconnect with validation- Final read

• Reprogram the Endpoint- Reconfigure packet type and structure

- Asynchronous command to interrupt or direct consumption profile to appropriate rate period

Benefits of Rapid Deployment

– Improve project ROI

– Reduce operational expenses

– Additional data for effective/efficient

engineering