Cellular today provides the utility with the ability to deploy without adding infrastructure, migrate from their current AMI solution over time, and tactical deployments for enabling pre-payment, solar, and electric vehicle charging. The LTE standards also provides a low battery consumption mode that has made cellular a viable solution for long-term battery applications like gas and water meter communications and sensors that don’t have access to AC power.
Fortunately, there’s no need to choose between cellular and private RF networks. Trilliant lets utilities incorporate one or several cellular network providers into backbone WAN/NAN systems, regardless of differences among carriers and their ecosystems.