AT&T has announced its teaming with Silver Spring Networks for the delivery of 3G wireless communications services to Silver Spring’s utility customers across the United States.

 

This follows AT&T’s (News - Alert) endeavor to promote smart grid technology in the M2M or machine-to-machine communications applications.

 

AT&T’s high speed, cellular data network allows aggregation of data collection and transport of smart grid information to the Silver Spring’s UtilityIQ back-office application suite. The company’s suite of M2M pricing plans have been designed for the smart grid market which makes wireless solutions suitable for utilities.

 

“We are thrilled to be working with Silver Spring and their growing number of successful deployments, as we continue to expand our smart grid solutions that enable utilities to utilize wireless technology as backhaul for customer data,” said Chris Hill, vice president, mobility product management, AT&T Business Solutions.

 

“AT&T is providing utilities with an economically compelling carrier network they can rely on for monitoring energy use and managing consumption,” Hill said.

 

Judy Lin (News - Alert), chief product officer at Silver Spring emphasized that the relationship between the two companies exemplifies Silver Spring’s commitment to bring the broadest ecosystem of companies to deliver an open, end-to-end and highly secure IP platform for the utility industry. 3G is capable of supporting portions of a smart grid implementation, noted Lin who also expressed happiness on working with AT&T.

 

AT&T provides a wide range of strategic mobility products and services to the utility industry such as wireless solutions for field service workers, outage detection and remote monitoring.