September 3, 2009 (FinancialWire) — nPhase, a joint venture between Verizon Wireless and Qualcomm Inc. (NASDAQ: QCOM), announced a series of ongoing pilot Smart Grid programs with ABB Inc., a leader in power and automation technologies, for ABB’s utility customers.

nPhase is providing real-time wireless network connectivity and services coupled with technology from ABB Inc., which together are enabling program participants to improve their performance while lowering environmental impact.

The pilot programs demonstrated positive results with some of the country’s largest electric utilities, such as Con Edison of New York, utilizing ABB’s asset monitoring solution for high voltage circuit breakers. ABB’s technology provides the utilities with feedback on their current equipment status and forecasted maintenance needs, which in turn may help the utilities comply with future environmental regulations and provides them potential cost savings and a layer of protection from unplanned power outages.

The utility industry is facing an aging grid system that will benefit from the ability to monitor assets efficiently and in real-time. With nPhase solutions, companies like ABB can prevent power outages, provide advanced condition-based maintenance, maintain environmental compliance standards, and reduce costs by wirelessly monitoring dispersed assets such as circuit breakers.

The ABB solution, Circuit Breaker Sentinel, gathers critical information from the utility asset to determine the health of the electricity transmission equipment. nPhase extracts the crucial data via a secure cellular wireless network and forwards the data to ABB’s Asset Insight hosted web platform. This combination of sophisticated monitoring technology, smart services connectivity and complex analytics enables a true smart grid.

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