Arizona Public Service
Type/Role: Electricity Utility
Headquarters/Base: Phoenix, AZ
Website: http://www.aps.com/
Smart Metering:
Markets: USA, Arizona
Parent: Pinnacle West
Subsidiaries:
APS, with 4,000 MW of generating capacity, serves more than one million customers in 11 counties throughout most of the state, but mainly concentrated in northern and central Arizona. APS has 1.1m customers
Arizona Public Service has selected KORE Telematics to provide wireless communications services as part of the large scale expansion of the utility’s automated metering infrastructure (AMI). APS has contracted with Elster Integrated Solutions for 800,000 new meters, all of which rely on the KORE M2M network for two-way cellular data communications.
KORE has provided reliable wireless services to APS since 2005, when the utility began its initial AMI deployment of over 160,000 meters. The new 800,000 meter expansion began in December 2008.
