Itron Inc. has been presented the 2014 North America Frost & Sullivan Company of the Year Award for the smart city market. The award recognizes Itron's smart city growth strategy in implementation, market expansion, consistently diversified offerings, year-over-year growth in customer wins and repeat business.
Itron offers smart technologies as the foundation for smart cities, enabling cities, utilities and citizens to use information and communications to enhance livability, workability and sustainability. The company’s Itron Riva solution, will contribute to connecting millions of devices in cities, delivers revolutionary edge intelligence and adaptive communications technology to enable automated decision-making at the edge of the smart grid network. Itron is helping create a breakthrough-sensing ecosystem to enable growth in global markets ranging from smart cities to the Internet of Things.
Frost & Sullivan follows a 10-step process to evaluate award candidates and assess their fit with select best practice criteria. For the Company of the Year Award, Frost & Sullivan analysts independently evaluated two key factors: visionary innovation and performance; and customer impact.
Itron was recognized with the award during the 2015 Excellence in Best Practices Awards Gala on Jan. 14, 2015 at the Hilton San Diego.
Source: Itron Inc.
