ELO, Echlon Deploy 3,400 Smart Meters in Amazonian City
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ELO Sistemas Eletronicos SA, a Brazilian power-meter maker, has deployed 3,400 devices in the remote Amazonian city of Parintins to help state-controlled utility Centrais Eletricas Brasileiras SA reduce energy theft.
ELO will install another 12,000 smart meters in the region this year that will send the utility information about power failures and line tampering, according to a statement today from ELO and Echelon Corp., a San Jose, California-based company providing some of the components.