Itron, Inc. announced that Texas-New Mexico Power (TNMP) was the recipient of Itron's 4 millionth Distributed Intelligence (DI)-enabled smart electric meter. To date, Itron has shipped 4.2 million of the DI-enabled meters to customers globally. An electricity transmission and distribution service provider to more than 260,000 customers throughout Texas, TNMP is deploying the meters as part of a new program to transition to Itron's intelligently connected industrial IoT (IIoT) network solution, supporting the utility's Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) refresh goals.

As of June 2022, TNMP has completed more than 75% of the planned deployment and is expected to be complete in early Third Quarter 2022 across its 13,000-square mile territory. Meters are registering on the network within the same day and supporting market operations for reads and disconnect with >99% reliability daily. Itron's DI-enabled smart meters are an integral part of Itron's multi-application, multi-transport IIoT solution, which moves grid analysis, decision-making and control to the grid's edge, resulting in a significant reduction in latency of action, greatly improved situational awareness, more accurate analysis and advanced event detection.

DI will help TNMP improve operational efficiencies by detecting unsafe grid conditions and energy diversion through analytics running at the edge of the low-voltage network. The solution will also enable TNMP to comply with the Advanced Metering System (AMS) requirements in the state of Texas. Itron's solution offers options for adding IoT applications including smart streetlight monitoring, grid sensors as well as the potential to share network coverage to read neighboring utility water and gas AMI meters.