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London, 29
September 2006 -- Endesa, Spain's largest
utility and one of Europe’s five leading electricity
companies, Renesas Technology the worldwide
leading supplier of semiconductor solutions to the
metering industry, and Yitran a leading PLC
fabless semiconductor company and the inventor of
the IT800 DCSK based powerline modulation technique,
have signed an agreement on 27th July 2006 to
jointly develop an open specification for Automatic
Meter Management (AMM).
Endesa’s AMM
Project
Endesa, with
the participation of various internal units and the
collaboration of many national and international
leading meter manufacturers, has defined an
innovative AMM system, which will allow for remote
reading and operation of its domestic meters. This
system will improve the service offered to the
clients by the company (multi-tariffs, control of
demanded power, connect and disconnect of power
supply, etc.) using the low-voltage power
distribution lines as physical support for
communications.
The volume of
the meter grid reaches almost 11 million meters in
Spain alone. With the implementation of an AMM
system, Endesa targets a further improvement of the
service quality offered to its customers in a
progressive and secure manner. The quality and
efficiency will be guaranteed by an open
specification that allows the participation of
several suppliers with fully interoperable
equipment.
After analyzing
existing PLC technologies and a rigorous evaluation
process, Endesa has selected the most advanced and
suitable solution in order to cover its customers’
needs, leading to the agreement signed with Renesas
and Yitran. The technology provided by these two
companies, adapted to Endesa’s requirements, will
mean a significant innovation in the metering field
using narrowband PLC technology.
Whilst Endesa
will provide its suppliers with an open
specification and the freedom to implement it in any
way they choose, they will have the added security
of knowing that a cost effective and complete
implementation will already be available based on
Renesas’ M16C PLC platform and Yitran’s IT800
device.
The
specification puts Endesa’s metering concept into
practice via a jointly developed networking layer
based on a combination of Endesa’s meter management
know-how and Renesas’ experience in the
implementation of its widely acclaimed RUN-MTM meter
networking software. The physical layer is based on
Yitran’s IT800 using DCSK modulation technique that
has been especially designed to cope with the
characteristic distortion phenomena of distribution
powerlines.
Renesas’
M16C Family and PLC / AMR Solutions
Renesas
originally selected Yitran’s DCSK technology due to
its robust communications capability and signed a
license agreement with Yitran in 2002 to incorporate
Yitran’s DCSK technology into its M16C family of
microcontrollers to provide single chip PLC
solutions. The M16C was already a microcontroller
family of choice for many of the world’s leading
meter manufacturers and continues to be adopted by
them for single and three phase electricity meter
applications to this day. Furthermore Renesas
developed its high performance RUN-MTM networking
implementation to run on the single chip M16C PLC
microcontrollers and this has since been proven in
the field in several real life implementations.
Yitran’s
IT800 DCSK Technology
Yitran’s IT800
DCSK based technology is widely used around the
world for metering as well as for smart home and
white goods appliances. The technology was chosen as
a standard by the Echonet forum in Japan, as well as
ITRI in Taiwan and by the LNCP forum in Korea. IT800
DCSK has also been selected as the HomePlug base
line technology for the coming Command and Control
standard HPCC.
About
Endesa:
ENDESA is the
leading utility in Spain and the number one
private-sector multinational electricity utility in
Latin America; it is one of the five largest
electric utilities in Europe; it is also a major
operator in the Iberian natural gas market; its
business in the renewable energies field is well
consolidated. It operates in the electricity markets
of 14 countries spanning three continents.
Its shares are listed on the Spanish Stock
Exchanges, the New York Stock Exchange in the form
of American Depositary Receipts (ADRs) and on the
Santiago de Chile Offshore Exchange.
At 31 December 2005 its total assets were Euro
55,365 million.
In 2005, the company reported net income of Euro
3,182 million, EBITDA of Euro 6,020 million, EBIT of
Euro 4,244 million and total revenues of Euro 17,508
million. At the end of 2005, ENDESA’s workforce
totaled 27,204, with 12,709 staff employed in its
business in Spain and Portugal and 14,495 in other
countries and business areas. For further details:
www.endesa.es
About
Renesas Technology Corp:
Renesas
Technology Corp. is one of the world’s leading
semiconductor system solutions providers for mobile,
automotive and PC/AV (Audio Visual) markets and the
world’s No.1 supplier of microcontrollers. It is
also a leading provider of LCD Driver ICs, Smart
Card microcontrollers, RF-ICs, High Power
Amplifiers, Mixed Signal ICs, System-on-Chip (SoC),
System-in-Package (SiP) and more. Established in
2003 as a joint venture between Hitachi, Ltd.
(TSE:6501, NYSE:HIT) and Mitsubishi Electric
Corporation (TSE:6503), Renesas Technology achieved
consolidated revenue of 906 billion JPY in FY2005
(end of March 2006). Renesas Technology is based in
Tokyo, Japan and has a global network of
manufacturing, design and sales operations in around
20 countries with about 26,200 employees worldwide.
For further information, please visit
www.renesas.com.
About
Yitran:
A fabless
semiconductor company, Yitran Communications Ltd.
designs, develops, and markets high performance, low
cost PLC (Power Line Communication) modem chips and
systems. Yitran’s products provide robust and
reliable communication over the existing electrical
wiring and power grids. The technology enables a
variety of 'No New Wires' applications, such as Home
Automation, Command & Control, AMR (Automatic Meter
Reading) and Internet distribution over power lines
(in hotels and MDU/MTU markets). Yitran's customer
and partner lists include leading companies, such as
Renesas, Matsushita Electric Works, Hitachi, KEPCO,
Kinden, LG and Microsoft. For further details:
www.yitran.com
For further
information and reader enquiries:
Dr. Robert Denda, Endesa Ingenierķa,
Edificio Expo, C/Inca Garcilaso s/n, 41018 Sevilla,
Spain
Phone: +34 954487102
E-mail: rdenda@endesaingenieria.es
Web:
www.endesa.es
Simon Gray,
Renesas Technology Europe Ltd., Dukes Meadow,
Millboard Road, Bourne End, SL8 5FH, Great Britain
Phone: +44 (0)1628 585149
E-mail: simon.gray@renesas.com
Fax: +44 (0)1628 585180
Web:
www.renesas.eu
Amit Grauer,
Yitran Communications Ltd., 9 Yehoshua Hatzoref St.,
Beer Sheva, Israel
Phone: +972 8 6235281
E-mail: amitg@yitran.com
Web:
www.yitran.com
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SOURCE: YITRAN Communications Ltd.
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