Feb 8, 2005
Open Systems International, Inc. (OSI) has recently been awarded a contract by Rochelle Municipal Utilities (RMU), Rochelle, Illinois to supply a replacement SCADA Master Station for monitoring and controlling the Rochelle electrical system.
The system will be based on OSI's monarch™ distributed open architecture and includes Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition, Historical Archiving, as well as Calculation and Trending capabilities. RMU will also utilize DNP over IP and Modbus TCP as communications protocols. Rochelle deemed OSI's fast track delivery record and its open technology as leading decision factors for choosing the monarch platform. The system is scheduled to be completed in the two (2) months following the contract award with commissioning following one month later.
Rochelle Municipal Utilities (www.rmu.net) Electric Division is owned by the people it serves, and is committed to providing reliable electric service and other energy services to residents and businesses in Rochelle, Illinois and the surrounding areas. RMU has its own generation capacity, allowing the organization to control costs and to maintain rates that are competitive and significantly lower than the national average.
OSI (www.osii.com) provides open, state-of-the-art, and high-performance automation solutions to electric utilities worldwide. These solutions include Energy Management Systems (EMS), Distribution Management Systems (DMS), Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) Systems, and Generation Management Systems (GMS), as well as individual software products and e-business solutions for electric utility operations. OSI is headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.
For additional information regarding this news release please contact news@osii.com.
