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City of Edmond, Oklahoma's Largest Community-Owned Electric Utility Department, Selects OSI's SCADA Technology

Open Systems International, Inc. (OSI) has been awarded a contract by the City of Edmond Electric Department (Edmond Electric) to supply a new SCADA system based on OSI's monarch™ (Multi-platform Open Network ARCHitecture) platform. This new system will replace Edmond Electric's legacy ACS SCADA system, which has been in operation since 2003.

Edmond Electric is a member of the Oklahoma Municipal Power Authority (OMPA), a state governmental agency that provides low-cost, wholesale electricity to cities and towns that own their own electric systems. OMPA's power supply comes from a variety of resources, including wind, hydroelectric, natural gas, and coal.

This new OSI SCADA platform features the following components: an advanced Graphical User Interface (GUI), Advanced Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition, Advanced Alarm Management System, Communications Front-end Processor, Historical Information System and Data Archiving, Real-time and Historical Trending and Analytics, and Data Engineering and Maintenance subsystems.

Edmond Electric (www.edmondok.com) is Oklahoma's largest community-owned electric utility, and has served the Edmond community since 1908. Today, Edmond Electric provides electric services to more than 83,000 customers within the City of Edmond corporate city limits.

Open Systems International (www.osii.com)—headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota—provides open, state-of-the-art and high-performance automation solutions to utilities worldwide. These solutions include Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems, Network Management Systems (NMS), Energy Management Systems (EMS), Distribution Management Systems (DMS), Outage Management Systems (OMS), Generation Management Systems (GMS), Substation Automation (SA) Systems, Data Warehousing (Historian) Analytics, Situational Awareness Systems, individual software and hardware products, and Smart Grid solutions for utility operations. OSI's solutions empower its users to meet their operational challenges, day-in and day-out, with unsurpassed reliability and a minimal cost of technology ownership and maintenance.

For additional information regarding this news release, please contact news@osii.com.