Industry Tidbits

10 November 2004

Ontario's Chatham-Kent has selected Tantalus, makers of TUNET, to supply a smart metering application for a 1000-endpoint residential deployment.
www.tantalus.com

27 October 2004

LANSA releases LANSA EDI Direct to facilitate computer-to-computer integration of EDI business transaction documents with a company’s business application systems by managing and tracking EDI documents. LANSA EDI Direct maps and translates EDI transaction sets into backend ERP systems and interface files.
www.lansa.com

Energizer Battery, Inc. is now using Cactus GDS Accelerator by Cactus Commerce Inc. to achieve global data synchronization compliance with its retail customers. Cactus GDS Accelerator for BizTalk Server 2004 allows companies to quickly and easily connect to UCCnet™ and the Global Registry, and integrate accurate real-time data into existing management systems.
www.cactuscommerce.com

Tantalus, makers of TUNET, has hired Tim Smith, PhD, the current editor of the Wiglaf Journal, as an Account Executive. Tantalus provides Advanced Metering Infrastructure to utilities, lowering the service costs while providing a platform for service enhancement. Expect the full story to come.
www.tantalus.com

13 October 2004

French Broad Electric Membership Corporation Deploys Tantalus Utility Network
Tantalus Systems Corp., has begun Phase One of a Tantalus Utility Network(TUNet) deployment for French Broad Electric Membership Corporation. The two-phase project will deliver a fixed wireless communications network that provides advanced metering and real-time outage management to its 35,000 rural members.
www.tantalus.com.

15 September 2004

Tantalus Completes $16 Million Private Equity Financing
Tantalus Systems Corp., a designer and manufacturer of data communications networks for utilities, has completed CAD $16 million private equity financing. The financing syndicate includes Altira Group LLC, ARC Financial Corporation, British Columbia Discovery Fund (VCC) Inc., Sanders Morris Harris Group and Pender Growth Fund (VCC) Inc.
http://www.tantalus.com/

1 September 2004

Virtual Strategist
The Summer 2004 edition of our partner publication, The Virtual Strategist, is now online at www.virtualstrategist.net.

This issue features tackle a wide variety of issues ranging from Stock Options and Restricted Stocks to Value Migration, from the competitive advantage that GIS Technologies is providing businesses to shocks that iTunes has introduced in the music industry with articles by Ashish Kothari, Laraine Specotr, Greg Wall, Carl Vause, Dennis N. Aust, David Morris, Tom Fitzgerald and more. It's a don't miss issue.
www.virtualstrategist.net

Peace Progresses with Xcel Energy
Xcel Energy and IBM Global Services have deployed the Peace™ Customer Information System (CIS) product for 1.5 million electricity and 1.2 million gas customers in six U.S. states. This achievement marks the largest multi-state commercial-off-the-shelf CIS installation in North America.
www.peace.com

Advanced AMR Launches 8650 Commercial AMR Wireless Monitor
Working in conjunction with Advanced AMR's Energy Information and Control System (EICS) is the 8650 Commercial AMR Wireless Monitor for collecting energy information from commercial and industrial electrical meters. The 8650 wirelessly collects meter data and transmits that information via the internet to the EICS. This new system is beneficial to Co-operatives and ESCOs.
www.advancedamr.com

18 August 2004

Advanced AMR Introduces Energy Information & Control System (EICS), a wireless energy management system provides cost effective energy management solutions for AMR and other energy monitoring services.

A wireless-to-Internet energy management solutions for AMR and other energy monitoring services from wireless remote monitors attached to electric, water, and gas meters. Real-time data transmitted to EICS is available for analysis allowing Utilities, ESCOS and Energy Co-operatives to implement energy management strategies for load response, demand management, outage restoration, tamper control, and other energy conservation programs. The wireless EICS system uses a patented wireless mesh network technology.
www.advancedamr.com

4 August 2004

Adica's Electricity Market Complex Adaptive Systems (EMCAS) business solution for investigating electricity market economics is featured in the July/August 2004 edition of IEEE Power & Energy.
Article
www.adica.com

12 May 2004

Tantalus closes a deal with Snapping Shoals
Tantalus closes a deal for a pilot AMR project with Snapping Shoals Electric Membership Cooperative. Installation of the Tantalus TUNet real-time two-way telemetry AMR solution should begin this summer, 2004. This continues the growth of a promising new approach to AMR.
www.ssemc.com
www.tantalus.com

Riskurb Launches First Product
Riskurb, a new venture founded by Luca Avellini, launches their first product, Orange Equity Analytics. Orange Equity Analytics is a risk analysis solution for small to medium sized hedge-funds.
www.riskurb.com

Smith engages IIT Midwest Alumni
Tim Smith, PhD engaged the India Institute of Technology (IIT) Midwest Alumni Organization in a discussion on Today’s High Tech Entrepreneur. IIT alumni, known for their critical thinking skills, described Dr. Smith’s presentation as precise & crisp in its insights and ability to summarize complex factors in a comprehensible fashion. Gopi Sethumadhavan, chair of the session said "I thoroughly enjoyed your talk, it was engaging and educative." Dr. Smith remarked: "This is our fourth presentation in as many months before local, national, and international audiences, trend we welcome."
www.wiglafjournal.com
http://www.iitmidwest.org/main/index.html

SPL to acquire CES International
SPL announced on May 4 that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire the major assets of CES. SPL is best known for it CorDaptix CIS solution and CES is best known for their outage management solution. The acquisition is expected to be finalized in June 2004. The acquisition of CES is in line with the strategy Harry Debes, CEO of SPL, shared with the market earlier in 2004. The merger will strengthen the footprint of SPL within the utilities market.
www.splwg.com

28 April 2004

North American AMR Market Continues Growth beyond $1 Billion Mark
Wiglaf LLC has released their 2004 North American AMR Market Forecast of unit sales, revenue, and market evolution insights. The report indicates that the North American AMR market has far outstripped the $1 billion mark and should continue to grow for the next several years. To get the full report, visit Wiglaf Research.

Y Kaiser Smith to vist First Lady Laura Bush
Congratulations to Yvette Kaiser Smith, Professional Sculptor and Artistic Director at Wiglaf, for her invitation to a reception with First Lady Laura Bush in recognition of her lending work to the Art in Embassy Program. Her work is currently on display at the Spaso House, US Embassy in Moscow.
www.kaisersmith.com

14 April 2004

SpeedRead Technologies LLC, a producer of AMR Submetering Solutions, releases a new website written, designed and developed by Wiglaf LLC. The improved market message includes a value calculator demonstrating the value of Water Submetering for Apartment Complex Owners.
www.speedreadtech.com, www.wiglaf.biz

Tantalus Systems Corp., a designer and manufacturer of data communications networks for utilities expands to larger offices in Vancouver.
www.tantalus.com