Operating a utility is not a walk in the park, which is why coordinating a successful smart grid deployment that yields operational, financial and customer benefits is especially impressive.  In preparation for The Networked Grid, Greentech Media has announced winners of the Top Ten Utility Smart Grid Deployments in North America.

More news for Ambient coming from the floor of DistribuTECH 2012 in San Antonio (Booth #4220). Yesterday, we announced that our industry-leading  Smart Grid Communications Nodes now include the Qualcomm MDM6600 mobile broadband solution, adding a new level of communications flexibility to the Ambient Smart Grid communications platform. In conjunction with this addition, the Qualcomm enabled nodes have also been certified by Verizon Wireless for use in its highly reliable nationwide wireless network.

Today we announced an Ambient Corp. milestone we think is pretty significant – the 75,000^th Ambient X-Series node deployed in the field. We are very excited about this for a variety of reasons, but most significantly because this milestone underlines the maturity and stability of the X-Series node, and explains why it has become the unit of choice for one of our biggest partners – Duke Energy. Our product is the pioneer for open, standards-based smart grid communications nodes.