Silver Spring Networks
Type/Role: Communications Supplier
Headquarters/Base: Redwood City, CA
Website: http://www.silverspringnet.com/
Smart Metering: http://www.silverspringnet.com/solutions/advanced_metering.html
Markets: USA, Australia
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Silver Spring Networks builds networks that enable a utility to make the business changes necessary today to improve efficiency, reliability, and customer service while reducing costs.
Built for real-time networking, its open standards permit multiple vendors to innovate new products and services for the utility while remaining scalable and secure for system-wide implementation. Seamlessly integrate these new networking technologies while simultaneously building in redundancy, integrity and reliability and increasing operational efficiencies.
Former vice president Al Gore and venture capitalist John Doerr are members of the company’s advisory board. They’re also principals in VC firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, which provided $75 million in funding to Silver Spring in Q3 2008.
It is understood that Google have also invested in Silver Spring Networks
