Datamatic and Groeniger & Company Join Forces.Energy Editors/Business Editors PLANO, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 17, 2003 Executives with Plano, Texas-based Datamatic Ltd., today announced a partnership with Groeniger & Company to distribute Datamatic products, including the FIREFLY firefly or lightning bug, small, luminescent, carnivorous beetle of the family Lampyridae. Fireflies are well represented in temperate regions, although the majority of species are tropical and subtropical. (R) Automatic Meter Reading Automatic meter reading, or AMR, is the technology of automatically collecting data from water meter or energy metering devices (water, gas, electric) and transferring that data to a central database for billing and/or analyzing. System. Long a respected name in the waterworks waterworks: see water supply. industry, Groeniger & Company has been in business for over 50 years. Datamatic is a leading supplier of enterprise meter reading solutions that has served utilities worldwide since 1977. Groeniger & Company President, Mike Groeniger said, "We took notice of Datamatic after several FIREFLY AMR (1) (Adaptive Multi-Rate) A variable rate speech codec selected by the 3GPP for the 3G evolution of the GSM cellphone system (WCDMA). Using the Algebraic CELP (ACELP) compression technology, AMR provides toll quality sound at transmission rates from 4.75 to 12. successes in our region over the last two years. We had been handling a competing AMR technology and were losing opportunities to service our customers. Then our customers started asking us about FIREFLY. We knew Datamatic had been a player in the industry for a long time and the more we learned about them, and about the FIREFLY in particular, the more confident we became that this was the right time for a partnership. So we started talking. It made more sense for us to work together than to compete and it gives Groeniger & Company a more complete package of products for our customers." Groeniger & Company is the largest distributor of waterworks equipment in California with 12 regional offices throughout the state. The company will also represent Datamatic in its Southern Oregon This article is about the southern region of the U.S. state of Oregon. For the University, see Southern Oregon University. Southern Oregon is a region of the U.S. , Nevada and Hawaii territories. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Datamatic VP of Sales and Marketing, Scott Durham, "Working with Groeniger & Company offers Datamatic several key advantages. The company is a top-level distributor that has earned a solid reputation for attentive at·ten·tive adj. 1. Giving care or attention; watchful: attentive to detail. 2. Marked by or offering devoted and assiduous attention to the pleasure or comfort of others. service, integrity and unmatched local support for the product lines they offer. In addition, Datamatic can leverage Groeniger & Company's presence and standing in the industry to capture opportunities in California that we previously did not have the resources to reach. This relationship will unlock tremendous opportunities for both companies." The growing demand for FIREFLY's Meter Independent interfacing strategy and ProfilePLUS(TM) Usage Profiling capability were key to Groeniger & Company. Meter Independence means that FIREFLY is compatible with virtually any existing meter, allowing utilities, even those with highly mixed meter populations, to install AMR without meter change out. Meter Independence can save a utility literally millions over the course of an AMR project. ProfilePLUS Usage Profiling is an integrated feature in each FIREFLY Meter Interface Unit. ProfilePLUS records and stores hourly usage data for more than 74 days; this data can then be retrieved and analyzed at a later date. "New applications for this information are emerging every day," noted Durham. "Among the most useful are settling customer usage disputes, quicker leak identification, monitoring/enforcement of conservation measures and meter right sizing. ProfilePLUS takes FIREFLY far beyond the value of competing AMR solutions that merely provide a meter reading." About Groeniger & Company Groeniger & Company has served the Water Works, Wastewater, Fire Protection and Irrigation irrigation, in agriculture, artificial watering of the land. Although used chiefly in regions with annual rainfall of less than 20 in. (51 cm), it is also used in wetter areas to grow certain crops, e.g., rice. Pipeline needs in Northern, Central and Southern California Southern California, also colloquially known as SoCal, is the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Centered on the cities of Los Angeles and San Diego, Southern California is home to nearly 24 million people and is the nation's second most populated region, for over 50 Years and three generations. The company has been a member of AWWA AWWA American Water Works Association AWWA Army Wives Welfare Association (India) AWWA Australian Water and Wastewater Association since 1959, and is a member of the Engineering & Utility Contractors Association, as well as the Water and Sewer Distributors of America. Additional information about Groeniger & Company is available at www.groeniger.com. About Datamatic, Ltd. Datamatic is a leader in utility meter A utility meter is any of the following metering devices used on utility mains:
Additional information about Datamatic is available by calling Scott Black at (214) 520-3430 or on the Web at www.datamatic.com. |
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