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Seattle City Light Selects Equinox Software's Control Room Operations Window

Vancouver, B.C. - December 23, 2002

Equinox Software Design Corporation is pleased to announce that Seattle City Light has purchased their utility Operations product: the Control Room Operations Window. Seattle City Light will implement 3 key modules in the Control Room Operations Window:

1. Operations Logging, Notification and Reporting
2. Event Follow-up, Analysis and Reliability Reporting
3. Outage Scheduling.

Implementation of the Control Room Operations Window will enable Seattle City Light to integrate many existing operations databases and applications into one unified solution. In addition, the Control Room Operations Window will enable Seattle City Light to significantly improve electric system reliability analysis and reporting.

The Control Room Operations Window is an industry leading solution designed to support critical utility operations processes: Plan – Log – Notify – Report – RESOLVE. Some of the key benefits realized by electric utilities using the CROW application include the following:

• Improved coordination of forced and planned electric system outages.
• Improved targeting of reliability centered maintenance.
• Reduced number of discrete databases/applications.
  

The Control Room Operations Window contains both a client/server application for Control Centre Dispatchers and Schedulers who require mission-critical performance and reliability, and a web-browser application for users outside of the control centres who require flexible and efficient access capability. The Control Room Operations Window shares key operating data with many other systems through a robust XML/SOAP application program interface and complies with the EPRI Common Information Model (CIM). This system has proven that it can stand up to the high demands of utility operations and Control Centers that run 7 days a week, 24 hours a day.

 

About Equinox Equinox Software Design Corporation is a leader in delivering flexible, proven optimization products and services to clients in the Utility industries. In business since 1993, Equinox has built a strong reputation for delivering database driven solutions using n-tier, SOA, client/server, and internet platforms. Their leading-edge product for utilities, the Control Room Operations Window (CROW), provides tools for optimizing Electric Utility and ISO Operations processes.

For further information please contact: Scott Hughes Director, Business Development Equinox Software Design Corporation #200, 260 West Esplanade North Vancouver, BC Canada V7M 3G7 [map] Phone: +1 604 988 7598 (ext 109) Fax: +1 604 988 1156 Email: sales@equinox.ca Web: www.equinox.ca

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