The deployment, to begin later this year, is part of IPL’s Smart Energy Project to promote energy efficiency, improve reliability, and deploy advanced metering.
IPL is funding the project, in part, through a $20m Smart Grid Investment Grant awarded by the Department of Energy (DOE) through the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act.
Silver Spring’s unified infrastructure delivers the ability to run multiple applications over a secure IP-based network.
Silver Spring will support IPL through a large-scale distribution automation system enabling faster outage detection and notification, improving fault location and isolation and increasing energy efficiency, the company said.
