Aug 3, 2006
Open Systems International, Inc. (OSI) has been awarded a contract by Okanogan County Public Utility District (PUD) of Washington to provide a Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition System as part of a new substation automation and monitoring initiative.
The proposed project includes Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition, Alarming, Events Recording and Historical Information Archiving, DNP communications over IP to all substations and installation of several new Remote Terminal Units.
"This project represents our second PUD project in Washington, and we warmly welcome Okanogan County Public Utility District to our monarch™ user family. Okanogans trust in our superior technology and customer service is appreciated and we will work very hard to exceed Okanogans expectations," said Bahman Hoveida, President and CEO of OSI.
"In the utilities search for a SCADA provider, OSI rose to the top as a very robust system with a very good history in the industry and a staff that is dedicated to customer service and support," said Doug Adams, Manager of Operations for Okanogan PUD.
Okanogan County Public Utility District (www.okanoganpud.org) provides dependable, non-profit utility services governed by, and for the benefit of, its customers in a safe and environmentally-responsible manner. Okanogan County PUD serves approximately 20,000 customers in the state or Washington via 104 miles of transmission system and 1,577 miles of distribution network.
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.
