From Business Case Planning to Benefit Reality – An Industry Perspective Walter Levesque Vice President, Sales Hunt Technologies, Inc.

Founded in 1985 as a research company 1994 Patented Ultra Narrow Bandwidth (UNB) Technology Located in Pequot Lakes, MN 130+ employees 430+ customers 3,000,000+ endpoints Hunt Technologies, Inc.

Substation Two-Way Communication Always On ™ Each endpoint broadcasts information independently Near Real Time Downstream UNB Upstream

Primary Business Case Reasons for AMR Based on Information from Chartwell and Howard Scott Prepared: June 2002

Emerging Benefits of AMR Based on Information from Chartwell and Howard Scott Prepared: June 2002

Important Deliverables Meter Reading Time-of-Use Demand – system wide Load Profiles Multi-Utility Monitoring Outage Detection Power Restoration Distribution Operations Preventive Maintenance Load/Transformer Balancing Power Quality Reduce Line Loss Control Load Control Remote Disconnect Remote Reconnect

Consumption Profiles 5 minute intervals aggregated into 15 minute intervals 15 minute intervals directed into rate periods Support of four rate periods Time synchronized to National Standard

Consumption Profiles 12:00am 6:00 7:00 8:00 9:00 12:00pm 6:00 7:00 8:00 9:00 11:59pm OFF PEAK SHOULDERPEAK $.04$.07$

Important Deliverables Meter Reading Time-of-Use Demand – system wide Load Profiles Multi-Utility Monitoring Outage Detection Power Restoration Control Load Control Remote Disconnect Remote Reconnect Distribution Operations Preventive Maintenance Load/Transformer Balancing Power Quality Reduce Line Loss

End Point Information System Power Quality –Line Loss –Transformer Balancing & Sizing –Phase Loading & Identification –Preventative Maintenance S/N S/N S/N S/N S/N 6783 S/N S/N S/N S/N 6714 S/N S/N 12370

Remote Administration Command Messaging -Demand reset -Load Control with validation -Service disconnect/reconnect with validation -Final read Reprogram the Endpoint -Reconfigure packet type and structure -Asynchronous command to interrupt or direct consumption profile to appropriate rate period

Benefits of Rapid Deployment –Improve project ROI –Reduce operational expenses –Additional data for effective/efficient engineering