Echelon just announced the release of a new product: Networked Energy Services (NES) Element Manager, a new smart metering network management software. The software is designed to help utilities as they implement new smart grid programs by giving them enhanced abilities to manage the project’s installation, configuration, provisioning, management and monitoring.

The software provides a dashboard that provides at-a-glance access to information about network connectivity, data retrieval and the health of meters and power lines, … Read the rest